Ok I have looked around this and many other forums and cant find and recomendations on how much ammo i should initially put in the tank for the cycle. I have read the the ammo you get in stores is extremely concentrated and a half to 3/4 cup will get a 55gal to cycle quickest. If you have cycled fishless and have a 55gal please let me know how your experiane went. I have started to cycle already and with 1.5cups of pure ammo I am only getting a 2.0 with my master fw test kit. please help. I dont wanna overload this tank with ammo and have to drain it and start all over.
Fishless cycling for 55gal?
- Thread starter Napsterhaven
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i dont know the exact amount but 1.5 cups is seems like way too much. when i cycled my 75 it seems like it was only 6-7 cap fulls (5 ml cap) to get it is 5ppm. here are 2 links that go into detail about the whole process.
http://www.aaquaria.com/aquasource/cycling.shtml
http://www.aaquaria.com/aquasource/cycle2.shtml
i suggest getting a new test kit (or one of these), and start over following the directions carefully.
http://www.aaquaria.com/aquasource/cycling.shtml
http://www.aaquaria.com/aquasource/cycle2.shtml
i suggest getting a new test kit (or one of these), and start over following the directions carefully.
Commercial sources of clear ammonia vary so widely in strength that there is no way to correlate volumes of product X with a given ammonia concentration. You should have an ammonia titer in the tank of 3-5ppm and maintain that until nitrites show, then you can cut the starting ammonia titer in half.