fishless cycling....help

[brgurung]

Hi all, I had started fishless cycling in my 29 g tank on last monday......i mistakenly put more ammonia ( instead of recommended 5 ppm, it was more than 8 ppm ).... i haven't added any ammonia after that.....now it's almost a week and my ammonia reading doesn't want to come down at all....it still shows more than 8 ppm and there is no/very little trace of nitrite..... what should i do now??:huh: any help will be greatly appreciated....:help:btw, i couldn't get media from any established tank...
thanks
bikas

[Mgamer20o0]

i think that much kills off the bacteria... do a water change to lower it.

[joeshmoe]

I did the exact same thing about 2 weeks ago when I started cycling. The only thing to do is water changes until you get it down. One 30% water change did it for me. It went down to about 4 ppm.