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Dandx13 said:I received the tank with no water but had a semi-cycled filter of my own. I added ammonia once to 4 ppm and saw some nitrites after ammonia dropped. Then i dosed it back to 3.5ppm and saw 5+ nitrites and about 80ppm nitrates by the time ammonia went back to zero. After that ive only dosed it to 1ppm and then posted this. I have only had this tank for about 12 days so the bacteria must have stayed alive
should i do a water change still to get the nitrates down?
My current levels are:
Ammonia: .5ppm
Nitrite: 5ppm
Nitrate: 160ish ppm (it is pretty red but the scale jumps from 80 to 160 ppm for API test kit)
I dosed to 1ppm ammonia about 4 hours ago
That's what I was getting at. Follow the instructions and you'll be fine. I fail to understand how people get into problems, unless it's by not following the article. How people get to 4.5ppm ammonia and then worry about high nitrates bugs me for some reason.TwoTankAmin said:Do not deviate from the directions in the fishless cycling article. It was designed to be foolproof. The only thing that makes it not work is failing to follow the directions.
I promise not to take any more offence, however if you're asking for advice and I give it, then why take the tone you took? It appeared to me that you were not following the instructions in the article, so I advised (using the extremely useful source document that I read and followed for an excellent result). Why not follow the directions that have been developed over years of painstaking research (the same instructions that I followed, that are basically foolproof if you follow them), instead coming up with your own method that obviously isn't giving you the result you wanted?Dandx13 said:No offense Gruntle, but im looking for someone more experienced for an answer. I understand where I am in my cycle and don't need you to copy and paste from the cycling forum. Thank you for your help