Prime only "detoxifies" all that it states it does not eliminate them,and yes if you do water changes with Tap water that already has Ammonia in it your kind of defeating your purpose.
Is my 10g cycled?
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Very misleading. Prime binds the tap ammonia into a form not toxic to your fish, but still available to the bacteria. Most test kits will read free and bound ammonia. In any case, a properly establishe bacteria will consume the ammonia, bound or not in 24 hrs.
The OP is doing a fishless cycle. I was just inquiring if he had ever chaecked his tap so he has a future refence of it.
Lex, the tap water level won't affect the cycle you have going on. Just wanted you to check the tap, so when you do that final water change, if you test right after it and your tap has ammonia, to expect a reading and not to get scared that you messed something up.
That's she! lol ok, I just wondered if it would mess the cycle up. Thansk!
I'll test later tonight
Looks like you are still on the right track...no ammonia and nitrites is good...just let the nitrates build up more, probably past 40 ppm. Then you can do the massive water change and add fish.
I would test your tap for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. The original nitrates could have come from there.
I though the purpose was to boil it down to only trates and do a WC. Not to add more ammonia. :lipssealedsmilie:
This is a good idea. I live in central IL, surrounded by farmland, and have noticed markedly higher nitrates in my tanks in the past few weeks. I hear this can be related, does anyone know?
But test the tap for ammo, trites and trates to establish a baseline, a jumping off point.
