awkwardGOLDIE
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So I may or may not have joined this forum to have this specific question answered lol I might, however, stay for the lovely plethora of fish knowledge this place has to offer 
I started doing a fishless cycle on a bare bottom tank a few weeks ago. This is my first time cycling a tank so I was definitely finicky at the start. I will also be a first time owner when I get the fish but am extremely excited for the future experiences and have been researching nonstop.
I'm kind of stressed now because I'm not sure if the process is done or not... I think I messed up at the part when the nitrobacters started showing up by dosing my tank with 4ppm of ammonia. And then at some point the readings for the Nitrites weren't going down despite my Nitrate readings consistently hitting the red zone.
I've attached my documentation below.
I wanted to do a water change last Sunday but I went ahead and did it on Friday because... well... I wasn't sure what the water quality would be like at the end of the weekend due to hurricaine Harvey. It's a bit stressful my neighborhood isn't flooding but I'm surrounded by a bunch of zones that are either marked as mandatory or voluntary evacuation status (there's a river 4 miles away). We still have running water and electricity but I've noticed a change in the quality of the tap water and have switched to drinking out of water bottles. But I'm glad I did the water change when I did.
Anyway I've been dosing my tank daily to 2ppm of ammonia and since the water change I've been seeing both my ammonia and nitrites reading coming up at 0 consistently but there hasn't been an increase in nitrates. I'll keep updating but is it done?
I started doing a fishless cycle on a bare bottom tank a few weeks ago. This is my first time cycling a tank so I was definitely finicky at the start. I will also be a first time owner when I get the fish but am extremely excited for the future experiences and have been researching nonstop.
I'm kind of stressed now because I'm not sure if the process is done or not... I think I messed up at the part when the nitrobacters started showing up by dosing my tank with 4ppm of ammonia. And then at some point the readings for the Nitrites weren't going down despite my Nitrate readings consistently hitting the red zone.
I've attached my documentation below.
I wanted to do a water change last Sunday but I went ahead and did it on Friday because... well... I wasn't sure what the water quality would be like at the end of the weekend due to hurricaine Harvey. It's a bit stressful my neighborhood isn't flooding but I'm surrounded by a bunch of zones that are either marked as mandatory or voluntary evacuation status (there's a river 4 miles away). We still have running water and electricity but I've noticed a change in the quality of the tap water and have switched to drinking out of water bottles. But I'm glad I did the water change when I did.
Anyway I've been dosing my tank daily to 2ppm of ammonia and since the water change I've been seeing both my ammonia and nitrites reading coming up at 0 consistently but there hasn't been an increase in nitrates. I'll keep updating but is it done?
