Cycling My Tank :0

[coco*butter]

Day 32
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.5 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=14

Added 8ml of Ammonia

 

[waterdrop]

Great! Look at that! Almost "textbook!" It got it down to 1.0 at the 24h mark one day and then got it down to 0.5ppm at the 24h mark the next day. Perfect progress (of course we're just lucky, as often it bounces around and you can't see the progress that clearly.) Anyway, I'd say your patience is slowly getting somewhere.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[coco*butter]

Day 33
12 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 1.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=14

Day 33
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.50 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=13

Added 8ml of Ammonia

 

[coco*butter]

Day 34
12 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 1.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=13

 

[coco*butter]

Day 34
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.5 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=13

Added 8ml of Ammonia

Day 35
12 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 1.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=12

 

[waterdrop]

Wow, now its even dropping a lot at the 12-hour test, that's great!

~~waterdrop~~

 

[coco*butter]

Day 35
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.50 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=12

added 8ml of Amonnia

Day 36
12 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 1.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=11

Day 36
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.25 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=10

Added 8ml of ammonia

Hello WD, thank you for your comments, they really help.

 

[waterdrop]

Hi coco, looking good! Nitrite Spike phase seems to be permanently finished and the 12h drop to zero is not far off!

~~waterdrop~~

 

[coco*butter]

Day 37
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.0-0.25 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=11

Added 8ml of Ammonia

 

[waterdrop]

 

[coco*butter]

Day 38
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5-6
KH=8

Added 8ml of Ammonia

 

[coco*butter]

Day 39
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5-6
KH=8

Added 8ml of Ammonia

Day 40
12 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 1.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5-6
KH=7

 

[Rediahs]

Wow!

I can't get over the fact that you do every single test (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, KH, GH) every 12 hours!! It certainly gives a very nice record. Someone should graph your cycle. Maybe I will.

I could never bring myself to do the nitrate test any more than once a week during my cycle, and I've never bothered since I added fish... so much shaking... do you have a shaking machine or something?!?! lol... doing that every 12 hours would be so tiring.

 

[coco*butter]

Day 40
24 hour checked
Amonnia= 0pm
N02= 0.0 ppm {Nitrite}
N03= 20-40 {Nitrate}
PH= 76
GH=5
KH=7

Added 8ml of ammonia

 

[waterdrop]

...could be hubby gets that job