I had read an article which I thought was pretty informative and helpful. Here is the link...
http://www.tropicalfishcentre.co.uk/Fishlesscycle.htm
However - after discovering that the daily dose of Pure/Clear Ammonia was putting me well over the 8PPM level - I found that some had said that all you really need to do is get the Ammonia to 4 or 5PPM and then just wait for the Nitrites to kick in. This was confirmed by a few others, and so I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more.
It's been nearly 2 weeks since I got the Ammonia to 4/5PPM and it has just stayed the same. The water is a really nasty green color, and the Nitrites have never kicked in. I did take a very small amount of the water out, and replaced it with more purified water from my water purifier. This brough the Ammonia parameter down to about 3/4PPM, but still - no Nitrites.
Any advice on this would be great. I'm hoping that this is just a waiting game, and I only being impatient (with all the crap that is in that water I can imagine that the bacteria colonies will probably - eventually - be larger and stronger than fishy cycling, but it just seems stalled to me).
Many thanks in advance!
http://www.tropicalfishcentre.co.uk/Fishlesscycle.htm
However - after discovering that the daily dose of Pure/Clear Ammonia was putting me well over the 8PPM level - I found that some had said that all you really need to do is get the Ammonia to 4 or 5PPM and then just wait for the Nitrites to kick in. This was confirmed by a few others, and so I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more.
It's been nearly 2 weeks since I got the Ammonia to 4/5PPM and it has just stayed the same. The water is a really nasty green color, and the Nitrites have never kicked in. I did take a very small amount of the water out, and replaced it with more purified water from my water purifier. This brough the Ammonia parameter down to about 3/4PPM, but still - no Nitrites.
Any advice on this would be great. I'm hoping that this is just a waiting game, and I only being impatient (with all the crap that is in that water I can imagine that the bacteria colonies will probably - eventually - be larger and stronger than fishy cycling, but it just seems stalled to me).
Many thanks in advance!
