vlcuXX
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Hey everyone so I've been doing a axolotl-in cycle with two tanks for quite a while now, more than a month!
After keeping up with water changes and testing the water daily I've had quite an experience in terms of cycling my first two aquariums, a 30 gallon housing 4 juvenile 4 inch lotls, which will be together with my other two in a 75 gallon once they reach a close enough size that I won't have to worry about them getting eaten, and a 40 gallon housing 2, 7 inch lotls.
Question I have is about the 40 gallon, I've had the ammonia spike, and the nitrite spike both spiked to about 4 ppm and I had to do rigorous water changes DAILY of around 50-75% to get it down and settled, so one day after a usual water change, I let things settle until the next day to test the water, and I was happily surprised with 0 nitrite from 5 or so every day I tested and with 0.25 ammonia! So from then on I kept testing and testing and testing and still I get 0.25 ammonia 0 nitrite and under 40 nitrate, which was confusing me, why was the ammonia not zero, if the tank was finished cycling, or that's how it looked to me... So I persevered with the testing until yesterday when I tested and there was 1ppm, and now today I tested there was 2ppm, what the hell has happened to my thought to be done cycle? I haven't changed anything that could crash the cycle I still have the Fluval biomax cylinders in my filter as media and some cut up aquarium sponge, in both my filters for the 40 gallon, which are the Marineland Penguin 150B, and 200B.
Any ideas why this is happening? Did the cycle crash? Ill keep up with the water changes then..., really unhappy about this. Oddly enough, the 30 gallon has just started the ammonia spike it stayed at 0.50 or lower until now, where its at 2, I'll do a 50-75% water change on both tanks when I get back from work tonight, until then I dosed with Prime to keep the tank non toxic or not nearly as toxic for them. I already did a 50% water change before I left for work, and dosed with Prime.
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After keeping up with water changes and testing the water daily I've had quite an experience in terms of cycling my first two aquariums, a 30 gallon housing 4 juvenile 4 inch lotls, which will be together with my other two in a 75 gallon once they reach a close enough size that I won't have to worry about them getting eaten, and a 40 gallon housing 2, 7 inch lotls.
Question I have is about the 40 gallon, I've had the ammonia spike, and the nitrite spike both spiked to about 4 ppm and I had to do rigorous water changes DAILY of around 50-75% to get it down and settled, so one day after a usual water change, I let things settle until the next day to test the water, and I was happily surprised with 0 nitrite from 5 or so every day I tested and with 0.25 ammonia! So from then on I kept testing and testing and testing and still I get 0.25 ammonia 0 nitrite and under 40 nitrate, which was confusing me, why was the ammonia not zero, if the tank was finished cycling, or that's how it looked to me... So I persevered with the testing until yesterday when I tested and there was 1ppm, and now today I tested there was 2ppm, what the hell has happened to my thought to be done cycle? I haven't changed anything that could crash the cycle I still have the Fluval biomax cylinders in my filter as media and some cut up aquarium sponge, in both my filters for the 40 gallon, which are the Marineland Penguin 150B, and 200B.
Any ideas why this is happening? Did the cycle crash? Ill keep up with the water changes then..., really unhappy about this. Oddly enough, the 30 gallon has just started the ammonia spike it stayed at 0.50 or lower until now, where its at 2, I'll do a 50-75% water change on both tanks when I get back from work tonight, until then I dosed with Prime to keep the tank non toxic or not nearly as toxic for them. I already did a 50% water change before I left for work, and dosed with Prime.
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