Fishless Cycling Please Help!!!!!!!

[ArowannaLover]

Can some body please tell me what is going with my water... I am new to the hobby and try to setup a new 180g tank. I follow those steps of doing fishless cycling of some members had posted in this forum using Ace Hardware Ammonia. It had been 7days that I added ammonia and keep it at 4ppm. On the 8th days my Ammonia had dropped to 1.0 ppm then I added Tera SafeStart live bacteria into the tank to speed up the process. On the next day my tank water had change color and stay like that till now 11th. I want to know if this is normal or did I do something wrong? Please advise....

Day 1: pH 8.0 Ammonia 5ppm Nittrite 0
Day 2: pH 8.0 Ammonia 4ppm Nittrite 0
Day 3: pH 8.2 Ammonia 4ppm Nittrite 0
Day 4: pH 8.0 Ammonia 4ppm Nittrite 0
Day 5: pH 8.2 Ammonia 4ppm Nittrite 0.25
Day 6: pH 8.2 Ammonia 4ppm Nittrite 0.50
Day 7: pH 8.0 Ammonia 1ppm Nittrite 0.50
Day 8: pH 8.2 Ammonia 0.25ppm Nittrite 0.50
Day 9: pH 7.6 Ammonia 0.50ppm Nittrite 0.25
Day 10: pH 7.6 Ammonia 0.25ppm Nittrite 0.25 Nitrate 0.50
Day 11: pH 7.6 Ammonia 0.50ppm Nittrite 0.50 Nitrate 0.50

Here are some pictures of my tank water before and after 7days of fishless cycling.

 

[dhjr0915]

It looks like it's cycling...What are you using to polish your water? Are you going to use a uv sterilizer?

 

[ArowannaLover]

I have a 25W UV Sterilizer but its not hook up yet.... not until I know the cycling is completed. I really dont know if I have an algae bloom in my tank or I did something wrong thats why the water turned green and clowdy. This is my first fish tank so I really don't know what to expect.

 

[azian_kicker]

turn off the light totally, throw some feeder fishes in there, don't use the u.v yet, just keep changing water, adding ammonia and test the water exactly like before.
When you can take 100% of your old green water out, your tank should be clear up (should not be too long). Don't worry too much, the reason you have lot of algae in your water because of the excess of nitrate. Your ammonia or nitrite was eaten by the bacteria colony and turn it into nitrate. Algae lives on nitrate + light.

Ammonia (or Nitrite) ---> Nitrate (by good bacteria) ---> water change to lower the nitrate level (and because algae also eats on the nitrate too so you don't really want it in there and messing up with your water test reading).