Help w/ my cycle??

[mdcordeiro]

i had a pervious post "cycling my 90 gal tank" its 2 pages back so i figured i start a new post the basics are i thought my tank was cycled after 60 days .so i put new fish in and there dying. at that time i only had a ammonia test kit it was maybe .5 no higher i did a 30% water change last night I was told that my nitrites where prob high so i bought a test kits here's my reults
ammonia "0" nitrite "0" nitrate" 0" ph 7.4 now what? all my tiger barbs and other little red barbs have died this is not fun!!

[TheMightyQueenPixie]

What kind of test kit are you using?...Seems a bit odd that you have zeros across the board after 8 weeks. Have you been cycling with fish, or doing the fishless method with bottled ammonia?

[mdcordeiro]

with fish platy's r left and a couple of tetra's ,originally had pacus for the first 4-5 weeks the realized those werent the fish for me or my tank. the etset kits are from aquarium pharmasuticals inc. I did make a mistake and cleanout the bacteria from my filter after about a month of cycling also i want to be clear on this when i do a water change i suck the poop out of the gravel with the tube right? ive done 2 water changes during the cycle first due to cloudy water and the one yesterday due to high ammonis my lfs has been NOOO help figures

[TheMightyQueenPixie]

ok makes sense now...a few little fishy butts are going to have to work over time to contribute significantly to the ammonia level in a 90 gal...Eventually they will produce enough, that is when you start doing your water changes and watching like hawk.

[mdcordeiro]

this is what started this my fish were dying and i was told that my ammonia was high someone here suggested to do a water change and again should i be cleaning the gravel with he sucker tube? cause i am

what should i do at this point im open to all suggestions AAAHHHH!!!!