Ok, so it has come to this:
Went the the LFS and had my water tested to show no ammonia, nitrites or nitrates. (We're talking 1 and a half months now people).
Tests on my 3 gallon (fishless ammonia dose) are now showing off the chart nitrites (2 maybe 3 weeks after initial setup) so my theory of letting ammonia be present and linger proves true through my expirements. fact of the matter is, my 46 g fish cycle never even cycled in the first place because i was removing ammonia through water changes at every hint of it. Going this route will get you nowhere. Maybe if i continue doing what I am doing it will cycle in like 2 years, but I am not willing to do this. I've decided I will return all fish in my 46 and 20 gallons at my next convenience, and I will be doing ammonia doses to those tanks as well. Took a long time going the "fast way" and I'm here to inform you all you are right in going the "fishless" route... unless you don't care about torturing fish. I will be back after the tanks go through their new cycle. Thank you, and for god's sake go fishless because removing ammonia will be deathly slow, and basically doesn't produce.
Went the the LFS and had my water tested to show no ammonia, nitrites or nitrates. (We're talking 1 and a half months now people).
Tests on my 3 gallon (fishless ammonia dose) are now showing off the chart nitrites (2 maybe 3 weeks after initial setup) so my theory of letting ammonia be present and linger proves true through my expirements. fact of the matter is, my 46 g fish cycle never even cycled in the first place because i was removing ammonia through water changes at every hint of it. Going this route will get you nowhere. Maybe if i continue doing what I am doing it will cycle in like 2 years, but I am not willing to do this. I've decided I will return all fish in my 46 and 20 gallons at my next convenience, and I will be doing ammonia doses to those tanks as well. Took a long time going the "fast way" and I'm here to inform you all you are right in going the "fishless" route... unless you don't care about torturing fish. I will be back after the tanks go through their new cycle. Thank you, and for god's sake go fishless because removing ammonia will be deathly slow, and basically doesn't produce.