OMG! Cycle blues....

[grmanrocks]

i set up a little 10 gallon amazon thingy blah blah blah, and i picked up 3 corys to cycle it with, well they worked and the tank sarted to cycle. it took like 1 day for the amonia to drop dpwn to zero , but the problem is the ammonia is down at zero but the nitirites keep rising off da charts! i dont know what to do, its been a month or so and ive never had this prob before. i dont know whats wrong, i tried that cycle bottled junk and it didnt work, ne ideas as to what will help the cycle process

 

[TOM A.]

how is your tap water?

 

[grmanrocks]

tap comes out 0 for everything

 

[messiner]

its just still cycling. you may not have a big enough bacteria colony to convert the NI to NA yet. just give it time.

 

[gomezladdams]

Cycle normally goes 2 weeks to 2 months,can help it along with some media from an established filter.Cories survived ammonia?!Thats a surprise they usually dont.
Cycling is really unstable and sometimes takes longer in little tanks

 

[grmanrocks]

ive cycled dozens of tanks of all sizes and its never taken this long before, especially on a small tank..... but ya ill just wait it out then, ill do water shances to keep the nitriets and nitates in check .

 

[concord]

I give mine a wek to cycle.... but I add fish veeeerrryyyyyyyyyy slowly