Hi all,
new to fish keeping and in my 5th day of fishless cycling but coming up with a visual problem.
I have started the tank with nothing in except internal filter, heater and sand as base.
When I poured the water into the tank it was crysta clear.
1st day I did the ph test and got a figure of 6.4 and I also put in some fish food.
the next day, the water was still crystal clear and most of the fishfood was gone.
i did the test ph 6-8 and more fish food
the next day (day 3) the water of the tank looked 'dirty' misty but assumed that it was the filter clearing the fishfood.
ph 7
no ammonia
20/04/2009 (day 4)
I have now started to use household ammonia so brought the ammonia level to 4, nitrite 0 but stll the water has not cleared??!
21/04/2009
no ammonia added as the level has not dropped and water is still the same colour.
I am going to do another test tonight to see if the ammonia has dropped (which I think it should) and see if there are any nitrite as people are telling me that the cloudy is the cycle working but I thought it would have been like mist cloudy, not dirty, like mucky pond water also is it not too early for the cloudiness to show??
please help me as I am debating whether to start the whole cycle again and not waste my time if this is wrong.
Regards
Karlo
new to fish keeping and in my 5th day of fishless cycling but coming up with a visual problem.
I have started the tank with nothing in except internal filter, heater and sand as base.
When I poured the water into the tank it was crysta clear.
1st day I did the ph test and got a figure of 6.4 and I also put in some fish food.
the next day, the water was still crystal clear and most of the fishfood was gone.
i did the test ph 6-8 and more fish food
the next day (day 3) the water of the tank looked 'dirty' misty but assumed that it was the filter clearing the fishfood.
ph 7
no ammonia
20/04/2009 (day 4)
I have now started to use household ammonia so brought the ammonia level to 4, nitrite 0 but stll the water has not cleared??!
21/04/2009
no ammonia added as the level has not dropped and water is still the same colour.
I am going to do another test tonight to see if the ammonia has dropped (which I think it should) and see if there are any nitrite as people are telling me that the cloudy is the cycle working but I thought it would have been like mist cloudy, not dirty, like mucky pond water also is it not too early for the cloudiness to show??
please help me as I am debating whether to start the whole cycle again and not waste my time if this is wrong.
Regards
Karlo
