Cycle and Ammonia, Day 3

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What is funny is that when starting out so many years ago, I lost a lot of community type fish due to cycling but never lost any cichlids...
 
I ran a test last night before my water change: Nitrate and Nitrites came in at 0, Ammonia 4, PH 7
The water clarity is almost back to normal, but seems as if I am still having ammonia issues.
 
BTW, I am sure you know this but if you use things like ammo-lock or amquel or any products that binds ammonia, Nessler method based test kit will register high ammonia.

You might want to slow water change a little, and monitor fish behavior...though lack of nitrates is still alarming.
 
The tank is cloudy because there is 4ppm ammonia and it won't clear completely up until further on in the cycle, you can't filter out bacteria (well that is not precisely true but...). Unfortunately the tank is far from being cycled and the high ammonia will only stall it longer. Do large daily water changes to keep the ammonia down under 1ppm. Once the nitrites spike then you are almost there
 
The tank is clear as of this morning, finally.
I have been doing 40%-50% daily water changes, along with prime and stability, using the API freshwater test kits plus 2 filters.
 
Before my water change this evening, Ammonia was at 4, after a 50% change, Ammonia at 2... Still no nitrate readings and water is back to crystal clear.
 
I'm glad you are finally seeing visible results. You probably won't see any measurable NitrAtes until you see some level of NitrItes. It's just a waiting game now.
 
as of today, nitrate readings!
ammonia dropped to a 2, and nitrate was about a 1 or so, making progress!
 
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