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  1. I've been unable to find an answer anywhere and am hoping I can get guidance here. I'm 24 days into a heavily planted FISHLESS cycle for my 125 gallon. I know I'm almost there in terms of cycling. I used Dr. Tim's Ammonia along with Seachem Stability and Easy Green & Iron. When my tank finally showed 0-0-20, I redosed ammonia to 2ppm. 24 hrs later the ammonia showed 0, but NITRITES showed 0.25. From my understanding, a cycled tank would convert that ammonia to nitrates in 24 hrs. Instead, it seems to take closer to 48 hrs to convert. Questions: 1. Does this mean my tank is not yet fully cycled? 2. Should I keep feeding ammonia? 3. Once it's fully cycled, will dosing with Easy Green and Iron be enough to maintain the cycle, or should I keep "ghost feeding" with ammonia? I'm going to wait a few months for the plants to establish/mature before adding fish, of course.
  2. Tap Water with Air Stone after 24hrs: PH: 7.5 KH: 3 GH: 8 Results typical?
  3. Current Tank Parameters PH: 7.2 KH: 3/53.7ppm GH: 12/214.8 (I did add Equilibrium for the invertebrates) Current Tap Parameters: PH: 8.8+ KH: 2 GH: 8 Will update tomorrow with the air stone sample All snails and fish accounted for. The last nerite was well hidden lol. No deaths other than probably the fry Amano that didn't make it over the past week.
  4. Oh no! Time to do a roll call and find my snails. Thanks for the heads up!
  5. I do have this piece of wood, but I put it in on Day 1 of the fishless cycle and soaked it in a bleach solution for over 24 hrs. I also rechecked my tap pH and it still registers 8.8+ (maxed out on API test).
  6. Specs: 55 gallon planted community tank: head and tail tetras, pristella tetras, bronze corys, amano shrimp, some nerite and mystery snails. Fluval 407 Fluval 3.0 set to 50% 7 hrs a day The tank has been fishless cycled for about 5 weeks with a mixture of Swords, Crypts, and Ferns. Added pothos plant on top a couple of days ago. Does with 6 pumps of Easy Green weekly. PH levels steadied out at 7.5 this entire time. After adding the fish my nitrates rose to 40ppm with ammonia and nitrites at 0.25, so I did a 30% water change with Stability and Prime. My tap water pH is 8.8+ and is moderately hard, so when I first cycled the tank I added some buffer to lower it to 7.5. The problem however is that I haven't been adding any buffer when I've been topping off or during water changes, and in the past the the pH stayed steady. After doing my 30% WC, the pH dropped to 7.2 yesterday and this morning is 7.0 Anyone have any clue what's causing this drop? I'm going to do another WC tomorrow because my nitrate level is still a bit high for my liking but I really don't want to keep stressing out my fish. Thanks!
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