DAY 1, 3, 6 and DAY 14.. on day 14 I added 2ppm of ammonia and 24 hours later converted to 0, but nitrites didn't drop.How many times have you added ammonia during your cycle?
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DAY 1, 3, 6 and DAY 14.. on day 14 I added 2ppm of ammonia and 24 hours later converted to 0, but nitrites didn't drop.How many times have you added ammonia during your cycle?
and I think nobody will input the ammonia required to generate that much nitrite, home free to ignore it yep.
The nitrite-to-nitriate bacteria takes longer to process than ammonia-to-nitrite bacteria. That's why ammonia goes down quite fast and nitrite does not. You just have to stop dosing ammonia and give it more time. The nitrite will go down. Also, you can't measure nitrate until nitrite shows zero/near-zero.DAY 1, 3, 6 and DAY 14.. on day 14 I added 2ppm of ammonia and 24 hours later converted to 0, but nitrites didn't drop.
Goto post #17Lol did everyone miss the fact that she posted 2 photos a stocked tank?
Why are we talking about a cycle still?
If you have living stuff inside you're not anywhere near the "cycling" stages anymore if thing have been surviving for weeks.
What's your question right now?
How to drop your Nitrates?
Also are you mixing up Nitrates and Nitrites?
High Ammonia and high Nitrites are bad.
Nitrates not so much.
What are you currently trying to handle?
Sounds like you said you had 0 Nitrates but High Nitrites. Which is weird except in the beginning of a cycle, which you're definitely past now, technically with Dr. Tims bacteria you're "instant cycling"
Oh i see, this post got highjacked lolGoto post #17