cycling help

Hey y’all! im having some trouble with my cycling here. I was doing great, ammonia was going from 2 to 0 within 2 days. However, I was over 100 nitrates, so I decided to do a water change, and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to add more ammonia than I usually do. Now (even after...

Hello friends! So, the time has finally come for me to cycle my 90-gallon tank. I currently have a senegal bichir, a leopard bush fish, and 6 keyhole cichlids on hold for me at my LFS. All of them are very little. Today I finally finished getting the tank full filtered, I’m using an FX6 fluval...

hello does anyone have experience on using bacteria in a bottle on larger tanks (300-500 gallons) if so how did it go?

Originally posted under setup I need help with upgrading the tank for my 15” pleco and his goldfish pal. tank is cycled (I think) but I’m thinking a tank to tank move- please read the thread here and give me suggestions...

We started out our cycle trying to transfer some good bacteria from our old tank the filter media and a little old gravel then added ammonia. The gravel is planned to be removed to go for a more natural river rock bottom. The ammonia was too high, ph was too high, we then switched tactics and...

I have a 20L set up just sitting with eco complete, a piece of driftwood and matten filter for quite a while, 2 weeks ago I put a small delhezi bichir in there and added some water from another tank temporarily until I could transfer media, well the bichir died next day, today I noticed a bit of...

I was given around a dozen platies roughly 3 weeks ago to help cycle my 55 gallon tank, throughout those weeks I tested my water every other day or so and I cleaned the gravel and did small water changes to keep my nitrites low enough to not kill my fish, today my nitrites dropped pretty damn...

Ok just sealed my 265 and day by day i have added water and it is now full. I am planning on waiting a few days before i drain it (a few times) so that all toxins are gone. So now my question is if cycling it in my way will be good enough or should i do this dropping ammonia in it and watching...

Hello all, i have a 4 foot fish tank (48 gallons) that I've been cycling for peacock cichlids for about a week now. The water test strip shows as follows: 120 GH ppm (mg/l) 120 KH ppm (mg/l) 7.5 - 8.00 PH (The colours almost in-between, leaning to 8.00) 0.5 NO2- NITRITE ppm (mg/l) 20 - 30...