Clear Ammonia

[FrankSlapperinni]

I bought some cleaning solution at wal-mart the other day so I could fishless cycle my new 10 gallon. The closest thing I could find to pure ammonia was this stuff called "Clear Ammonia". The ingredients are " softened water, ammonia, and Chelating Agent" I was wondering if anyone knew what this was and could tell me if this would screw up the bacteria trying to grow or anything like that.

Edit: I just did some research and read that it a Chelating agent is used to inactivate hard water and heavy metal ions in the water by binding to them. this wouldn't effect the bacteria in any way would it?

 

[fishfeind]

I just put in a fish food flake or two every few days for a month and added 2 capfulls of Cycle every week (25 gal tank), a month later and the levels were perfect.

 

[FrankSlapperinni]

Thanks for te advise, but I already bought the stuff so... if anyone else used this stuff before and could give tell me about it, or if anyone has attemted a fishless cycling with a ammonia product and can tell me what brand it was ad if it had something else in it

 

[Alien Anna]

Chelating agents will be chemicals that bind heavy metals etc. I've no idea what its doing in your ammonia, but there are chelating agents in many dechlorinators for aquarium use.

 

[FrankSlapperinni]

yes that makes sense, the chelateing agents probably form a chelate with the chlorine to get rid of it. I'm guessing the chelateing agent is in the ammonia cleansing solution because it pureifys the water and/or makes it acidic. either that or it is there to make it stick to stuff (glass dish's ect.). Alien Anna, since you seem to be a big advocate on fishless cycling,, do you know if you have any chelating agents in your solutions?

 

[1clicc]

Don't worry. I got the same stuff as you do too. I'm still using it to cycle my tank, my tank has been cycling for about 1 week and 2 days as today with this stuff and i haven't had a problem. The only problem was that i've been adding too much of ammonia that it went past 5ppm and not to mention if you got to 5ppm you must maintain it at that level until you have a nitrite spike. The ammonia reading in my tank was about 7ppm to 8ppm. What i did was i went to one of my friend's place and got about 1/4 of a bag full of sand in his mature tank and add it to mine and in about 2 days i got a nitrite spike. I suggest you do the same thing too, if you happen to know someone who has a fully cycle tank that won't mind if you take probably 1/4 of a bag of his or her gravel or as much as you want. You can also ask your LFS or LPS for some. Like i say, you should be fine with this stuff.