Hi all, I'm new to fish keeping and I bought a 28 Gallon (105L) saltwater tank.
I'm really finding it hard to complete a fishless cycle. I started off by 'ghost' feeding the tank every day with food but I think I put way too much in as it wasn't decomposing so I decided to stop that and did a full water change & tank clean.
Then I purchased household ammonia which I miscalculated and put in too much so I did an 80% water change which got the levels up to 5ppm which is what most people seemed to recommend online. It's been 2 months now and the ammonia level is the same with nitrate at 0.5ppm and nitrate 0ppm.
I bought API Quick Start and added that to the tank according to the instructions but that didn't have any effect on any of the levels.
I'm not sure what I should do next, any advice by more experienced members would be appreciated!
Thanks!
I'm really finding it hard to complete a fishless cycle. I started off by 'ghost' feeding the tank every day with food but I think I put way too much in as it wasn't decomposing so I decided to stop that and did a full water change & tank clean.
Then I purchased household ammonia which I miscalculated and put in too much so I did an 80% water change which got the levels up to 5ppm which is what most people seemed to recommend online. It's been 2 months now and the ammonia level is the same with nitrate at 0.5ppm and nitrate 0ppm.
I bought API Quick Start and added that to the tank according to the instructions but that didn't have any effect on any of the levels.
I'm not sure what I should do next, any advice by more experienced members would be appreciated!
Thanks!