Recent content by ave

No, my tap water has no nitrates. Thanks Library Girl.

My confusion is coming from seeing nitrates before nitrites. To answer your questions I have 1 BB molly, 1 platy and 3 guppies (guess that's only 5:facepalm:) , I'm using API as water conditioner (I ordered Prime and it's being shipped).

So I have two filters running (20 gal and 50 gal) with a friends filter in the one. I'm testing high ammonia, no nitrites and low nitrates levels. This doesn't make sense to me. Why have I never gotten a nitrites reading? Does the used filter have anything to do with this? Why do I still have...

I put the sponge in my filter that my boss gave me and so far nothing. That was a week ago. I feel like I'm going to be doing daily WC's for the rest of my life.

My boss has a canister filter and he's going to give me one of his sponges. :)

:D You guys are crazy! I have three male guppies and they are great. I call them my happy puppies. They are all over the place and keep the rest of the fish moving. I'm not to crazy about my platys though, one female and one male is differently not working. I think my favorite is my balloon...

Yes liquid test (api master test) .

Yesterday I got .50 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 8.0 ph Today I got 2.0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 8.2 ph, and between 0 and 5.0 nitrate My tank has been cycling for almost three weeks. I used terra safestart but I don't think it worked. Here are my questions. Can I get nitrate before nitrite? Why did my ph...

My tank isn't cycled yet. It's about three weeks old and I still don't have any signs of nitrate or nitrite. I was thinking about the angels filter because I would like the cycling to speed up a little.

I've read on this site about people getting angelsplus filters to help their tank cycle faster. I visited the site and really don't understand how there filters setup works. Could I buy one and cut it up to put in my power filter box? FYI - My AquaClear 50 is on the way! Thanks for the advice.

Will adding a second filter speed up cycling I'm waiting for my AquaClear 50 to arrive for my 20 gal tank. I'm running a Topfin 20 right now and I'm almost 3 weeks into my fish in cycle. Still no signs of NO2 or NO3. Will adding the new filter speed up the cycling process? My plan is to take...

Wouldn't a 50 be too big?

We do have really hard water.

gravel - Sorry :-(

Fish temp is 78-80 Substrate? If that's the ammonia levels it's .50