Cycling Help

[CRAZY4FISH]

I Know There Is Always A Lot Of Discusson On Tank Cycling, But Mine Seems To Be Taking Forever. I Have A 70g Tank With A 404 Fluval Filter. I Set It Up And Let It Run For 2 Weeks Before I Added 8 Neons. Its Been About 2 Months Now And I Am Still Having Ammonia Readings Of 0.25, Nitrite Of 0.25-0.50. I Have Been Doing Daily Wc. This Is Getting Really Frustrating. I Have A 29g And I Would Like To Tranfer Some Of The Fish To The 70g But I Can't Because It Seems To Be Taking Forever To Cycle. Does Anybody Have Any Ideas? I forgot to mention that I had seeded the 70 g with gravel from my 29g.

 

[rohnds]

What is your Nitrate NO3 reading?
Rohn

 

[TKOS]

Did you actually do anything to the tank while it ran for 2 weeks? If not then the tank wasn't cycled. You need an ammonia source to cycle a tank, so the neones are doing that right now. Obviously you aren't doing big enough water chnages right now. Neons shouldn't produce too much ammonia in a 70 gallon tank. So up the water changes. Also if you have an established tank that is already cycled and showing no ammonia or nitrite then you should take some filter media from that filter and stuff it into your 404. That will kick start the cycle and get things going faster.

And don't add any new fish until the ammonia and nitrite readings are zero for at least 1 week. Of course each new fish will spike the ammonia again so add new fish slowly.

 

[CRAZY4FISH]

Good news! Today ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 0.25. It looks like its finally getting through the cyling. Thanks for all the input.