How much longer do you think my fishless cycle will take?

[NJ Devils Fan]

I took a test today, day 10, and I have 4ppm ammonia and 2ppm nitrites. The ammonia has been the same for the last few days. I added like a little more than a tablespoon on sunday(3 tablespoons is 1ppm for my tank) and haven't added any sinse. The last time before that was on Friday, when I added 3 tablespoons. My nitrites yesterday were about .50ppm. When do you think the cycle will be over?

 

[famman]

My 20 gal high took an additional 10 days from this point to complete the cycle.
good luck

 

[valerie]

I'm doing my fishless cycle right now and am in day 16. My ammonia comes down to 0 each da and i bring it banck up to 5ppm. It took 12 days for the ammonia to go to 0.

I started getting nitrites on day 8 and they are jsut coming down now(checked today and they are 0.5ppm. So hopefully mine will be done in teh next few days.

My first tank i fishless cycled took 12days. So it really depends on the tank. I added a bunch of filter sponges and gravel,have you added anything to seed it?

 

[morleyz]

Decent rule of thumb:

Nitrite takes 1.5 - 2X as long to 0 out as the ammonia does.

So...if your ammonia drops to 0 in the next day or 2 you're looking at another 15-20 days.

If you can reseed your tank with some gravel or filter media from an established tank you can speed up that process a little.

 

[NJ Devils Fan]

I put a decoration from my other tank in the cycling tank. I also put gravel in the 4 media baskets that came with the filters. I hope that it's doesn't take much longer, but I know it probably will.