If you have had fish in there for a couple of weeks and have even added filter media from an established tank, your cycle should be well under way. Every time I do a new tank, which isn't often, I seed with old material the same way and immediately add fish--not a ton, just a fraction of the final load. Then I build up. I have never had problems with ammonia or cloudy water which would indicate an incomplete cycle. I would believe your test kits. Good luck, MS On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Michael Staeb <mikeycpa@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all! I'm sorry I missed out on what sounds to have been an > amazing meeting last night. Looking forward to seeing the video! > > However I have an issue (or at least I think it may be one) with my > new tank. I've made my first leap into a larger tank from my one 6g > to a 29g. Set it up, planted it, and introduced 4 zebra danios as > pilot fish to initiate the nitrogen cycle. I've been testing the > water and adding nitrifying bacteria every 3-4 days since. It's now > been two weeks and the pH has steadily risen to 7.6, the high pH > doesn't read on the scale of my API master test kit and > ammonia/nitrite/nitrate have all consistently remained at 0. I've > tried added water from my 9 mo old 6g tank and tried using dirty > filter media from the 6g tank to get things started in the 29g without > success. After about 5-6 days started getting some algae blooms (some > brown, some green hair). Added a pair of otos and they're working > away on that. > > I've done some reading online and from what I can tell, the ammonia > levels should at least be reading something by now. Any advice to a > new GSAS member and novice aquarist? > > To further complicate things I've got a few snails appearing, just > showed up on Sunday. They don't appear to be doing anything negative > so far and are not rapidly proliferating but I'm keeping a close watch > on them. I've tried to identify the species but until they grow > larger it's a bit difficult. > > All the best, > -M- > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-Member mailing list > GSAS-Member@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member > _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member