Is My Tank Re-cycling....again!?

[boomer2000ctr]

“This post is a fallow up to my other post called Water readings going Coocoo”

Test kits used: API Master Test Kit used for Ammonia and NitrIe

So I’m about a month in my fishless cycling and the ammonia was spiking fine and then the nitrIe spiked fine as well, then I notice my ammonia stayed locked at 1 for about 2 days nitrIe was at 0, so I didn’t know why the ammonia was locked, so I did a 50% water change, this time I did condition the water before I added it to the tank, turned off the power filters, heart light, etc; So now I did a 50% water change, then I tested it after about 2 hours, and the ammonia was at 0, but nitrIe was at 5! And I don’t know why. So I tested it about 4 hours later, then it was the same, and now I tested it today in the morning, and it’s the same! I have no idea what’s going on with it, but I’m going to keep on trying. Well any help and advice would be great! Thanks!


P.S. I posted this topic right before leaving to work, so I wont respond until about 10 hours later. Thanks!

 

[rdd1952]

“This post is a fallow up to my other post called Water readings going Coocoo”

Test kits used: API Master Test Kit used for Ammonia and NitrIe

So I’m about a month in my fishless cycling and the ammonia was spiking fine and then the nitrIe spiked fine as well, then I notice my ammonia stayed locked at 1 for about 2 days nitrIe was at 0, so I didn’t know why the ammonia was locked, so I did a 50% water change, this time I did condition the water before I added it to the tank, turned off the power filters, heart light, etc; So now I did a 50% water change, then I tested it after about 2 hours, and the ammonia was at 0, but nitrIe was at 5! And I don’t know why. So I tested it about 4 hours later, then it was the same, and now I tested it today in the morning, and it’s the same! I have no idea what’s going on with it, but I’m going to keep on trying. Well any help and advice would be great! Thanks!


P.S. I posted this topic right before leaving to work, so I wont respond until about 10 hours later. Thanks!

Did you turn the filter off or on? If you turned it off, that is the problem. No water is passing through the filter for the bacteria to process the waste. If it's on, then I'm not certain what's happening. I remember seeing the other thread and it sounds like the tank did cycle but then something went wrong.

 

[trace1]

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Did you turn the filter off or on? If you turned it off, that is the problem. No water is passing through the filter for the bacteria to process the waste. If it's on, then I'm not certain what's happening. I remember seeing the other thread and it sounds like the tank did cycle but then something went wrong.
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yeah that was my tank RDD & its still not cycled yet
but it now has nitrIe, all i did was change 75% of the water & started adding ammonia again till it seemed to sort it self but i am getting a little frustrated with it now

 

[boomer2000ctr]

i turned off the filters 2 do the water change, and then i turned them on after i did the water change, i'm i supose to leave them on while doing a water change? Well thanks 4 the advice!