Hi everyone,
I am currently in the process of attempting to cycle my 138 litre tank (think that's roughly 36 us gallons?) But its the first time I've done a fishless cycle so could do with some advice please. I'm using pure ammonia.
So I set the tank up a couple of weeks ago, it has all the plants (fake except one real) + ornaments in it except the ones which are coming over with the fish from their current tank when they move. Its heated to about 28 at the moment and has a interpet p3 filter which turns over 800 litres per hour. I also have a bubble stone to create some more movement and airation.
Well I made a big mistake on thursday by not measuring properly and adding far far too much ammonia. According to the calculater I should be adding about 7.3ml to my tank and I added way more than that.
So I did my first ammonia test today using an API kit and it was very high - almost 8pp! :s so I did about a 30 percent water change. My other test results were done with a test strip (I know that's not as accurate so am going to buy the API master test kit when I have money) the results were. -
Cl2. - 0
Ph- 7,6
Kh- 15d
Gh- between >14d and >21d
No2 - just below 5
No3 - 100
The water hardness around here in england is really high apparently so I'm gonna get some RO water for my next water change and hopefully mixing with that will bring down the KH and GH cos they're quite high in all of my tanks.
Sorry for such a long post but basically I want to know where to go from here and how much first test results are? Thanks x
I am currently in the process of attempting to cycle my 138 litre tank (think that's roughly 36 us gallons?) But its the first time I've done a fishless cycle so could do with some advice please. I'm using pure ammonia.
So I set the tank up a couple of weeks ago, it has all the plants (fake except one real) + ornaments in it except the ones which are coming over with the fish from their current tank when they move. Its heated to about 28 at the moment and has a interpet p3 filter which turns over 800 litres per hour. I also have a bubble stone to create some more movement and airation.
Well I made a big mistake on thursday by not measuring properly and adding far far too much ammonia. According to the calculater I should be adding about 7.3ml to my tank and I added way more than that.
So I did my first ammonia test today using an API kit and it was very high - almost 8pp! :s so I did about a 30 percent water change. My other test results were done with a test strip (I know that's not as accurate so am going to buy the API master test kit when I have money) the results were. -
Cl2. - 0
Ph- 7,6
Kh- 15d
Gh- between >14d and >21d
No2 - just below 5
No3 - 100
The water hardness around here in england is really high apparently so I'm gonna get some RO water for my next water change and hopefully mixing with that will bring down the KH and GH cos they're quite high in all of my tanks.
Sorry for such a long post but basically I want to know where to go from here and how much first test results are? Thanks x