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Cycling and upcoming vacation

Today my water values are...PH 7 Ammonia 0 Nitrites .25 Nitrates 40 should I add more ammonia? And....We leave September 1st for a 2 week vacation. I plan to leave the system running and the lights on timers as usual. I have a good many plants growing. I am going to have a neighbor just come in to be sure everything is running every other day while I'm gone. She won't be doing any testing or anything else. Is this going to blow my cycling? I was planning to possibly add my fish the end of September. Any suggestions? This is an indoor grow situation.

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Permalink Reply by Keith Rowan on August 14, 2013 at 12:28pm

do you know how much ammonia it takes to bring it up to between 1 and 2ppt? if so, you could have the person checking your water levels dose every other day to keep the bacteria kicking along..

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Permalink Reply by sherrie p cockram on August 14, 2013 at 12:32pm

yes, i will have her do that..thank you!!!
Keith Rowan said:

do you know how much ammonia it takes to bring it up to between 1 and 2ppt? if so, you could have the person checking your water levels dose every other day to keep the bacteria kicking along..