Ammonia level reading help!!

[Venomspread3r]

Didn't know this - but hey ho!! Life is for learning right

[Venomspread3r]

Ok @VikingMummy2015 Ive done a big water change the temperature was already at 28c it's just the water level wasn't higher than the thermometer.
The ammonia was 0.25 after water change I added 1.2ml of ammonia as per @SPACKlick reccomondation earlier in the post .

I cleaned out filters etc in the old water and popped them back in. Hopefully we can get this going again ..I'd like some fish for my birthday (25th Feb)

Illl check ammonia before I go to bed,
One more thing I feel I must have aggravated whatever was in the bottom of my substrate the tank is a little murky but I'm sure that will clear soon enough

[Venomspread3r]

Ammonia now at 2.0ppm

[Venomspread3r]

Day Later
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrite 2-5ppm
Added 1.2ml more ammonia

Obviously I'm happy the Nitrite is showing but any explanation from the sudden rise in Nitrite from the zero it was showing just a day ago ? Very strange

[plankton]

The nitrite munchers are more resilient than the ammonia ones so should kick back in quite quickly.

[Venomspread3r]

Well @plankton that is just amazing news ..we might be on for birthday fish at the weekend

[codheadjohn]

When was the last time you added ammonia before this?

[Venomspread3r]

@codheadjohn
I added 1.2ml of ammonia the night before next day 0.25ml of ammonia left ..I added 1.2ml last night so will check again tonight

[Venomspread3r]

UPDATE: so for the past few nights before bed I've topped the Ammonia up to 2ppm I go to work the next come back and the ammonia us down to 0.25ppm
MAN those get Nitrites are hungry is it normal to be this fast ?

[codheadjohn]

That's normal. Are your nitrites off the scale? Mine were stubborn for 10 days and barely moved at all. I added Seachem Stability and the cycle was done 2 days later.