RE: First Proper Fishless Cycle (am I doing it right?)
Hi Robbie,
You are doing a great job on fishless cycling. With the help of Tetra SafeStart, your fishless cycle is going incredibly fast because of the jump start resulted from the bacteria seeding. The reason for 0 nitrite reading at first was obviously due to the fact the nitrite converting bacteria was doing faster or equal job to the ammonia converting bacteria. All the nitrite produced from ammonia were converted to nitrate.
How much ammonia you dose is depended on your goal. If you plan to have only a lightly stocked aquarium, then 2ppm dosage of ammonia on daily basis should be sufficient. If you plan to add full stock of fish at once, then you might want to add 5~6ppm of ammonia daily by the end of the fishless cycle.
