Cycling/Dr. Tims

[Pixburgh]

Started to cycle my tank on wednesday using dr. tims one and only bacteria with ammonium chloride drops. Tested my water after 24 hours (as per dr tims instruction) and my parameters were as follows..

Ammonia - 1.0ppm
Nitrite - 0 ppm
Nitrate 0 ppm
PH - 8.2
Temp - 81

I test 3x a day due to seeing so many people missing their nitrite spike (I may still miss it but it makes me feel better :xd. The parameters have been the same up until this morning. I went in to test and found that I possibly blew a fuse in the tank room (looking into that). Sometime between 11pm and 10am this happened. I got everything running again now but the tank temperature dropped to 62 degrees (it's slowly climbing back up now). My question is.. what has this done to my cycle, bacteria wise? I still have 1.0ppm ammonia and 0 nitrites/nitrates. I have hubby going to the store after he's off work to get another bottle of dr tims to seed the tank as i used the 2oz bottle for my 40 gallon (they said it'd be enough but since you cant overdose with it, another bottle can only help right?). Do I need to add more ammonium chloride or will the 1.0 ppm be enough for this new batch to feed off of also?

I'm glad this happened when there were no fish in my tank but a set back is a set back and it's oh so frustrating :cry:

Equipment running
Marineland Penguin 350 biowheel filter (Side note, should i remove the biowheels during the cycle?)
2x Aqueon 950gph powerheads
100 watt heater

 

[PatW]

Most bacteria are pretty tolerant of minor temperature swings. Also the bacteria of the nitrogen cycle are pretty ubiquitous. Bacteria will colonize your tank and drive the cycle even if all the seeded ones died, which is highly unlikely. The cycle would just go slower with colonization.