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Quote from: Trish on July 12, 2016, 01:01:25 PM

Yes, I must say, I have been overwhelmed by the support and kindness on this forum. So glad I found it.

Just wait 'till you miss an apostrophe out! 

No need for concern - as a Chief Inspector of the Apostrophe Police , I made a horrendous spelling typo last week which struck me about 20 mins after I'd sent the e-mail and was doing something completely different. No idea how it happened but it did. I've been so frustrated with myself ever since that I'm relaxing my apostrophe fixing, etc - well, for now, at least.

Hi All,

Finally! My tank has started to cycle.

The tank has always been a little bit cloudy, the day after I put Donna's media in, it started clearing a little bit. Before I went to bed last night, it was crystal and I knew that something was happening in there.

On testing this morning, l have the following results -

Ammonia.   -  0.50 ppm
Nitrite.           Between 2ppm and 5 ppm. - It's hard to tell
Nitrate.         Approx. 15 ppm


I am so pleased, and astonished that things have progressed so quickly.

Am I right in saying that as ammonia is less than 0.75 ppm and nitrite is over 2 ppm that I should add my original dose of ammonia to bring the ammonia back up to 3 ppm?

Thanks for your help Sue.

I'm so happy that things are at last going in the right direction. 

Mostly due to Donna being so kind in sending me the media.

Good news... and an ace looking tank.

Thanks paddy, what am I doing wrong?

The link is absolutely fine, all you need to add are "image tags" which you can insert into a post by clicking the image button on the Post Reply page. It's to the right of the YouTube button. The tags look like this

[img][ / img]

The only difference being there are no spaces. I've put spaces to show you how they are created.

Copy and paste your image link in the middle, like this

[img] ***link goes in here [/ img]

That's quite alright 

Just a tip, if you go to the post where I fixed your picture, you can see the actual tags I inserted before and after the link by clicking the "Modify" button and looking at the text 

Thanks Matt.

It's so nice to know that the cycle has finally started. The old media that Littlefish sent me must have been full of good bacteria, and has exploded in my tank. I could see it was working after only a few hours!

Just a case of waiting a little bit longer now and I will be able to put fish in.

That's a nice looking tank Trish 

+1, very smart and green looking. All you need is some inhabitants 

Fingers crossed for a nice quick cycle 

Thanks Donna,......all down to you, can't thank you enough.

It's amazing how good those log thingies look once they get in the tank. Like you, I thought it would give the fishes lots of hiding places.

Mmmm Danone

Hehehehehe indeed

Glad to hear tings are moving along Trish.