So after my ammonia taking ages to reduce, it has been dropping from 4ppm to zero in about 12 hrs. This seemed to happen virtually overnight and has been properly disappearing for over a week now.
My nitrites were off teh at the start of last week (had post about funny coloured nitirite test) but then about tuesday/wednesday they dropped straight to zero (proper clear sky blue colour, am sure am not getting confused...) the nitrates have appeared. If I put in ammonia in the morning, by the evening it is back to 0, the nitrites are also at zero (but i can't find the spike).
It seems like it has finished, I started again well over a month ago and there could have been bacteria left from previous failed attempts to fishless cycle but I just can't quite believe it......
What shoudl I do - I don't want to get fish too early(have been trying to do this for 5 months now so an extra few weeks wont hurt). Just keep the cycle going to make sure?
My nitrites were off teh at the start of last week (had post about funny coloured nitirite test) but then about tuesday/wednesday they dropped straight to zero (proper clear sky blue colour, am sure am not getting confused...) the nitrates have appeared. If I put in ammonia in the morning, by the evening it is back to 0, the nitrites are also at zero (but i can't find the spike).
It seems like it has finished, I started again well over a month ago and there could have been bacteria left from previous failed attempts to fishless cycle but I just can't quite believe it......
What shoudl I do - I don't want to get fish too early(have been trying to do this for 5 months now so an extra few weeks wont hurt). Just keep the cycle going to make sure?