nitrites don't show up

**imma24** · 01-25-2013, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by Lady Hobbs

The members here are not lazy and have been trying to help you and why you have 58 posts in this thread. But after awhile, we would be remiss if we didn't simply give up when no one is paying attention.

Back on January 14, I told you then you were adding way too much ammonia for a 1.5 gallon tank (as well as Andrea). You only grow the ammonia that will be needed for the fish in the tank and how many do you plan to keep in 1.5 gallons of water? You have also been told by numerous people to do a large water change and bring that ammonia down and then only add a very small dose. But the next day here's another post that your ammonia is registering 3 or 4 or 2?

This is a flower vase, not a fish tank! You have added enough ammonia to cycle a 30 gallon.

If you are planning to put that gourami in there for one hour, there was no need to cycle it to began with. But then, you have already had several tell you separating the gourami for one hour would not help either.

+1 - this should not be such an issue - it is such a tiny "tank" - many people use media from a larger tank to cycle another filter.

**vafa** · 01-25-2013, 10:19 PM

I did a water change and am going to do one today to
And BTW can an overdose on prime affect bb

**vafa** · 01-25-2013, 10:45 PM

I tested right now before my water change
Ammonia 1
Nitrite 0
nitrate 0
What???

**vafa** · 01-26-2013, 02:18 AM

ok why isn't anybody answering,
im doin my part

**Goes to 11!** · 01-26-2013, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by vafa

ok why isn't anybody answering

Click here for the answer to your question. Or, See the second sentence of the quote here.

Like every other question posted in this thread [As well as however many other threads you have started about this] it has already been posted to you [& posted & posted].

Good luck.

**190MPH** · 01-26-2013, 03:04 AM

Here's the deal. Do a water change. Take a third of the bio media from your bigger tanks filter and put it in the small one. Replace the media in the larger with new. It will re-colonize pretty quickly. Instant cycle in the small tank.

A word of advice though. You really need to do some research and take the time to learn the cycling process. This also aplies to stocking, appropriate tank sizes, and just about any other aea of aquatics. The answers are out there to almost anything if you take the time to do the legwork! Continuing to ask here, snub the advice, then come back with new problems looking for answers, is going to get real old and do you no good.

**vafa** · 01-26-2013, 03:06 AM

ok so i did a water change today and i dont add ammonia something is causing it to spike? maybe some debris released from my used sponge added

**funkman262** · 01-26-2013, 05:06 AM

Originally Posted by vafa

ok why isn't anybody answering,
im doin my part

You should be happy that anybody is still following up on this thread. I'm surprised that everyone giving you advice hasn't just given up on you and moved on considering how often you've pretty much ignored everyone's advice. There's plenty of information available at your disposal for fishless cycling, and even a sticky with step-by-step instructions, yet you still decide to just try things your own way. You should really be more gracious to the people that are still helping you because they certainly have more patience than I do.