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If I'm not bald by the time this is over it will be a miracle..... Woke up, tested this morning (14 hours since I last tested): Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: <50 lesson learned: Don't test your parameters within an hour of a water change or you will get a false result that will send...

More problems.....did the water chage this evening and now my ammonia is up to almost 2ppm and nitrite is at least 2 or higher. Didn't do anything different...will test in the morning again. At my wits end. ...

OK....did what you suggested trennamw, tested with .5ml tank water and 4.5ml tap and got a reading of 5ppm. Multiplied by 10 = 50 so not nearly as bad as I thought....guess I'm just color blind. Willl do another pwc tomorrow and should be good to go. FINALLY

5ml of tank water in the little tube, 10 drops from bottle #1, cap and shake, shake bottle #2 for 30 seconds, add 10 drops into tube, cap and shake for 1 full minute....I'm even setting the timer on the microwave to make sure I'm doing it long enough....wait 5 minutes and read result....

Positive on the tap water question....have tested it several times...always says 0 trates. Wish they would make the test color results easier to differentiate.... they are just too close for my eyes. What looks like 80 to one person could look like 40 to another....UGH. I don't think it's...

should probably add that I emptied the tank all the way down to the top of the gravel, so could the trates have been so high that they are still reading off the charts after basically emptying the tank? should I rinse out the filter media in a bucket of dechlorinated water? running 2 AC...

Any reasoning behind that?? Just wondering why I should expect a different result, since my tap water is reading 0 Nitrates and I'm adding prime and bringing the replacement water to temperature properly before adding it. Should I or should I not be wringing out the filter media in the "old"...

Hoping someone will chime in rather quickly.... Have been cycling my 75 gallon for several weeks now (fishless) and reached the finish line yesterday. Did a 90 or more % water change.... Before change: Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: off the chart pH: 7.3-7.6 After change...

turning over ammonia extremely fast....dosed it to 4ppm at 1pm this afternoon and 6 hours later it's down to 1....and trites were down to 2ppm at that time...trates up to 20. so excited I feel like a kid at Christmas....:lol: Looks like it's going to cycle faster than I thought it would I...

Woo Hoo!! Will keep on keepin on..... Any stocking ideas?? I want a nice community tank with maybe one or two larger "showy" fish.

ok.....so I checked my levels at 7 pm last night...ammonia was at 2ppm, Nitrites off the chart, and nitrates at about 5. Dosed my ammo back up to 4ppm at 7 last night. Got up this morning, checked levels and ammo was at 0, nitrites still off chart and nitrates still at about 5. Dosed ammo...

thinking about waiting to do a pwc....want to see if some nitrates show up soon. any stocking ideas? would like a nice community tank...POSSIBLY semi aggressive...haven't decided yet. would like a pair of larger "showy" ones and lots of schooling fish... really kicking myself for not...

Started fishless cycle of 75 gallon tank last Wednesday...dosed it up to 4ppm strait ammonia. Have been testing all week (yes, I'm impatient) and nothing really seemed to be moving. Just tested a few minutes ago and the ammonia is down to 2ppm and nitrites have shot up to at least 5...that's...

took your advice venymae....added some new plants...same species as the ones that I already had but different hues, and it does look 100% better. Also, found that large bunches look a lot better than just a few spread around. :thumb: dosed the ammonia up to 4ppm on friday and it seems to have...

Hey there everyone!! New to the freshwater board but wanted to share anyway... Took down my 75 gallon FOWLR and converting to freshwater. Scrubbed my tail feathers off on Monday, boyfriend and I spent 5 hours on Tuesday picking out the 1 lb of fluorescent stones out of 40 lbs of black gravel...