Question: I'm an idiot - Help cycle my tank!

[AmandaB]

Hey again! As if you're not sick enough of this thread yet! I figure it can help out another poor sap like me!

Anyway, so I'm not going to lie, I have not been adding any fish food to my tank for the past few days and decided to last night (oh I also didn't test the water. Long story but I've been working 12 hour shifts since last Wednesday.). So tonight when I got home from work I did, and my levels were the same but my ammonia is at 8 instead of the usual 4. Is this good? Are things happening in there? I so badly want to clean it but i know I can't yet and my filters look disgusting lol.

Also I bought an air stone and a pump for a 20 gallon tank (which I have). Now that it's all up and running I feel like its quite intense. Like if an axolotl were to get close to it, it would shoot them to the top of the tank! (I just died laughing as I typed that. I'm way too tired to be an adult any longer). Any ways, thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Knock knock jokes??


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[ChrisBish]

Hi, I'm completely new to this, and in the process of cycling my first aquarium. I was looking for some info and found this post. I'm intrigued to know how this ended up for you.


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[AmandaB]

Hi, I'm completely new to this, and in the process of cycling my first aquarium. I was looking for some info and found this post. I'm intrigued to know how this ended up for you.


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Well to be honest I totally stopped testing for a while (like two weeks) and then decided to buy some pure ammonia (found it at home hardware) and I'm about to begin this route today. I don't recommend the fish food method. I read an article that says it can take months. Who has time for that lol.


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[ChrisBish]

Lol. Yeah, I did the same! But I switched to household ammonia 3 weeks ago. It's now removing ammonia to 0 in less than 24hrs, but the nitrites are way high. So I just need that to come down and I can actually put something in there that actually moves ?


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