fltcrew21
Aquarium Advice Regular
My daughter and I are working on a 36g bow front she got for Christmas. I've had tanks in the past with good success but that was before the internet and all this INFORMATION was available at my fingertips.
We are doing a fish-in cycle because that is just the way it worked out.
It is a freshwater tank with a South American/Amazon theme.
Tap water readings:
0/0/0 and 7.6-7.8 (colors are hard to tell)
kH was 6
GH was 14
We basically started the tank right before New Year's and started getting ammonia readings about 8 days ago.
Now we are doing water changes every other day and using Prime every other day to keep it down. I am also on day 3 of the 7 day Seachem Stability routine.
We are on about day 17 now and no sign of Nitrites.
There are four 6-8" live plants and I'm adding 2 more pieces of Mopani driftwood today. 1 small, 1 medium and 1 "large" (by the seller's standards). I just have to finish boiling out the brown.
Anyway, I'll be lurking in the forums and posting questions as they arise.
We are doing a fish-in cycle because that is just the way it worked out.
It is a freshwater tank with a South American/Amazon theme.
Tap water readings:
0/0/0 and 7.6-7.8 (colors are hard to tell)
kH was 6
GH was 14
We basically started the tank right before New Year's and started getting ammonia readings about 8 days ago.
Now we are doing water changes every other day and using Prime every other day to keep it down. I am also on day 3 of the 7 day Seachem Stability routine.
We are on about day 17 now and no sign of Nitrites.
There are four 6-8" live plants and I'm adding 2 more pieces of Mopani driftwood today. 1 small, 1 medium and 1 "large" (by the seller's standards). I just have to finish boiling out the brown.
Anyway, I'll be lurking in the forums and posting questions as they arise.