Everyones favourite, fishless cycle questions.
Cycling a 5g tank at the moment, hoping to keep cherry red shrimp in it once its completed but i just have a couple of questions. The filter was from a previously established tank and last tuesday i added the ammonia to bring it up to about 5ppm. Testing today the ammonia has gone down to 0, so i did a nitrite test and the readings are at zero. Nitrates however are at 20ish or so.
Two questions about this,
1.) May i not see a nitrite spike? And if not how should i continue, just add another 5ppm of ammonia and see what happens?
2.) I added a large lump of filter wool both in the filter and just into the water until i can pick up something like java moss for the shrimps to eventually cling too, may this have absorbed ammonia? I doubt it as i was under the impression that only carbon/zeolite filter media do that?
Thanks for everyones time.
Cycling a 5g tank at the moment, hoping to keep cherry red shrimp in it once its completed but i just have a couple of questions. The filter was from a previously established tank and last tuesday i added the ammonia to bring it up to about 5ppm. Testing today the ammonia has gone down to 0, so i did a nitrite test and the readings are at zero. Nitrates however are at 20ish or so.
Two questions about this,
1.) May i not see a nitrite spike? And if not how should i continue, just add another 5ppm of ammonia and see what happens?
2.) I added a large lump of filter wool both in the filter and just into the water until i can pick up something like java moss for the shrimps to eventually cling too, may this have absorbed ammonia? I doubt it as i was under the impression that only carbon/zeolite filter media do that?
Thanks for everyones time.