About finished with my tank cycle

[Uihawk98]

Hello all, I just wanted to provide an update on my cycle. I tested this morning and here's where I am:

ammonia--1 ppm (it was 2.0 just last night)
nitrites--5.0+ ppm
nitrates--5.0 ppm

I have a feeling I should be deciding on fish pretty soon.

[Northernguy]

What are you interested in besides angels?

[Mith]

Ah... cycling... I remember it well..... Lady Hobbs walked me through the process very patiently..... VERY VERY patiently..... it took a lot out of her though.... she was last seen walking the country roads babbling something about Mith's tank... Mith's tank... Mith's tank.... then she would take a sip of something out of a brown paper bag.....

But God bless her little heart, she got me through it!

[jackson17]

Don't want to burst the bubble but........Your only halfway done, and the nitrite phase, is very very slow. That 5ppm of nitrate could be from tap lol.

[Lab_Rat]

That's great, just keep an eye on everything and start adding a bit of ammonia when you start getting readings of 0ppm ammonia to keep the bacteria fed. What kind of fish are you interested in getting?

[Mith]

Someone needs to call Lady Hobbs.... EMERGENCY!



(lol)

[Lady Hobbs]

Sounds as he's doing ok here. As Lab Rat says, he needs to keep feeding the bacteria ammonia until he has 0 ammonia and 0 nitrites.