i just barely finished my fishless cycle in 7 days. best time ever. all i did was buy a 4L bottle of ammonia for 99 cents and put in 5ppm. remember i say ppm because there is no exact measurement for all types of ammonia since most of them have different concentrations of ammonia. by adding some nitrifying bacteria from Cycle and putting my biowheel mini penguin filter to this 10 gallon it made the ammonia drop within 3 days(the added capfulls of Cycle made the ammonia go higher up to 7-8ppm and made it take longer to get to 0). then i kept adding just a little ammonia to keep the new bacteria happy and eating. 3 days later i saw the nitrite peak begin to drop. the 6th day it dropped just a little but by the 7th day there was no nitrite at all and it was cycled.
~~Mike |