Sjasmin888
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I just started a new 20 gallon tank in an attempt to recreate a natural river habitat for my Hillstream Loaches. My tank has been set up for 3 days and had 8 zebra danios in it for 2. I checked my water parameters yesterday and I was reading ammonia at .25 ppm so I added Prime to protect my fish. Today ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, nitrate is 20? I've used a total of 3 cap fulls of Seachem Stability over the course of these three days and added half a cup of gravel from a cycled tank the day I added the fish, but the jump from ammonia to nitrate being made in 24 hours has me a bit wierded out. Is there anything that could cause false readings, or has my tank really just cycled that fast?