Hello all!
Thank you in advance for your help!
My friend is starting a new tank she is cycling it for a betta, and possibly a shrimp, but we have a couple questions, I am new to the aquarium community as well and she wanted to get a fish tank as well but I told it would be best to cycle it before she got a fish, so she is but we are having some trouble finding information on using NUTRAFIN cycle, the bottle instructs to do 25ml for the first day, 5ml, for the second and 5ml for the third day. She has a 5gallon so she halved these measurements.
Our question is, what do you do after the third day? She tested the water and her levels were as follows:
Ammonia: 1.0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 5ppm
Temp: 62*F (side question, is a heater required to cycle? I just noticed the lack of heater and thought that might affect the cycling process but I am not actually sure so if someone knows that would be great, she is obviously planning on getting a heater she just hasn't yet)
So to summarize, we are just wondering in a fishless cycle, using NUTRAFIN cycle product, what do you do after the third day?
Thank you again in advance for your help! You guys rock!
Tiggy
Thank you in advance for your help!
My friend is starting a new tank she is cycling it for a betta, and possibly a shrimp, but we have a couple questions, I am new to the aquarium community as well and she wanted to get a fish tank as well but I told it would be best to cycle it before she got a fish, so she is but we are having some trouble finding information on using NUTRAFIN cycle, the bottle instructs to do 25ml for the first day, 5ml, for the second and 5ml for the third day. She has a 5gallon so she halved these measurements.
Our question is, what do you do after the third day? She tested the water and her levels were as follows:
Ammonia: 1.0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 5ppm
Temp: 62*F (side question, is a heater required to cycle? I just noticed the lack of heater and thought that might affect the cycling process but I am not actually sure so if someone knows that would be great, she is obviously planning on getting a heater she just hasn't yet)
So to summarize, we are just wondering in a fishless cycle, using NUTRAFIN cycle product, what do you do after the third day?
Thank you again in advance for your help! You guys rock!
Tiggy