flitabout
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Ok so I am embarrassed to even say this I have a nitrite spike. I noticed last night that my tank was cloudy. I was figuring just a bacterial bloom and that I would just wait that out. But just to be on the safe side I decide to test the water. I have kinda been watching it closely this week because I added new fish last Tuesday. Two angels and a gbr. As an after thought I think this was just to much with what I had stocked I don't think I had a very large bb filter. All I had were 8 platy fry 2 oto and 5 cardinals in a 37g planted.
So I tested everything last night and my ammo was at .25 and Nitrite was at 3ppm and trate at 10ppm. I did a 4x dose of prime and added some bb in a bottle that I had laying around. I have been sick this weekend and I just didn't have it in me to deal with a water change. So I ran my tests again this morning and my ammo was at 0 and the trites were down to 2ppm and trates were up to 20ppm. I changed the water with the RO I still had here for my drink use which was 5g I know it wasn't much but I did what I could. This brought the trite down but not obviously enough. So I started getting ready to go to the store and get more water and my 3year came and told me he didn't feel good and promptly barfed all over me. I can't very well take a sick kid to the grocery store to get more water and I won't have anybody to watch him while I do until this evening. I dosed again with prime, but will my fish be ok until I get back tonight to do the water change? And how much should I do until the filter has time to catch up with the new additions?
So I tested everything last night and my ammo was at .25 and Nitrite was at 3ppm and trate at 10ppm. I did a 4x dose of prime and added some bb in a bottle that I had laying around. I have been sick this weekend and I just didn't have it in me to deal with a water change. So I ran my tests again this morning and my ammo was at 0 and the trites were down to 2ppm and trates were up to 20ppm. I changed the water with the RO I still had here for my drink use which was 5g I know it wasn't much but I did what I could. This brought the trite down but not obviously enough. So I started getting ready to go to the store and get more water and my 3year came and told me he didn't feel good and promptly barfed all over me. I can't very well take a sick kid to the grocery store to get more water and I won't have anybody to watch him while I do until this evening. I dosed again with prime, but will my fish be ok until I get back tonight to do the water change? And how much should I do until the filter has time to catch up with the new additions?