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Thanks, I'm doing a fishless cycle now and think I'm just hitting my first ammonia drop (4ppm to about 2 ppm). So you're saying that the re-dosing of ammonia over the cycling process will kill them because they seem to be doing ok with the 4ppm that has been in there for the past week?

I'm currently doing a fishless cycle on my 10 gallon tank. I have 3 Amazons swords from a LFS and 2 Anubias 'snail-free' from PetSmart via TopFin brand. I washed off the roots in hot water but didn't read about rinsing them in hot salt water until about 12 hours after planting them. I found a...

I have a Tetra Whisper PF10 for my 10 gallon tank. The filter is great and it supposedly has this secondary foam web that is specifically there to house good bacteria. Is this actually true and it works for that purpose? If so when I need to change filter cartridges can I just change them and...

you can always upload it to photobucket and resize it there

you want to be testing ammonia and nitrIte levels.

My water has cleared up and is roughly 90% clear! I added a but of ammonia before going to bed the other night, a very small amount, and today my ammonia is up to a solid 4 ppm (even darker in my test than after my initial dosage on day one). I hear that amazon swords need iron to flourish...

I started the tank up two days ago and added some LFS bacteria supplement (TopFin) but read on these boards ammonia was better so I carefully dosed out until 4ppm was achieved. Tested today - Ammonia 0.5ppm | NitrIte 0 ppm | NitrAte 5.0-6.0 ppm. Initial tank reading before ammonia and after...

I just tested my tank's water and the ammonia is down to 0.5 ppm already?! :hyper: Could I be cycling this quickly? My water has gotten pretty cloudy overnight. My tank has a small piece of Mayalsian Driftwood that was soaked overnight with the water having relatively no brown tinge in the...

I'm doing my first ever cycle (fishless) in my 10 US gallon tank. I have an API Master Test kit and tested the water characteristics from tap and before ammonia. I have slowly added pure ammonia, testing as I added to ensure not to over add. Here are my questions: 1) I'm having trouble...