Recent content by stevedocs

I know this has nothing to do with the post, but the title of hairy mushroom touching the blue tickled me. Imagine what people not in the hobby would think

:) just think is it worth it at the moment to make your own water. In the UK I'm on a water meter so making RO wastes a lot of water, for every good gallon you get you waste around 4. Unless your planning on keeping corals etc straight away I would save your money for the time being and if the...

Did you buy an RO unit? As the pic you posted looks just to be the DI aspect of the process. Says about making your water de ionised, so unless your tap water is crystal clear the unit won't improve your water that much

If there's no fish in why don't you just use bicarbonate of soda to raise the ph for the cycling process? I did this on my tank and it kept it at 7.4, when I was ready for fish I did 2 large water changes and everything was good and still is 4 months later. I added a table spoon to my 23 gallon...

What's he doing? I can view or see any video using my iPhone, a lot only use phones so may not be able to see the videos you have posted

Cardinal tetras are lovely fish to keep. Get 8 if you can and will work well with your rams

Were they expensive?

Love these guys I picked up a single female a couple of weeks ago for my community tank and she's doing well, colours really come out

Georgie

I love her, got her from a local breeder here in Cardiff South Wales and was told she is a girl ram, her brothers were a bit bigger. She's barley 2 inches but eating really well and since she's settled in her colours have out. Her head was almost black when I got her but turning more yellow all...

Just thought I'd show you the new love of my life Georgie the ram. Does totally the opposite of what all the research I've done on them and quite think shes one of the tetras in the tank.

Change 75% water then retest, get the nitrite to readable levels, then dose a small amount of ammonia, repeat when nitrite spikes again. Keep an eye on ph too acidic and the cycle could stall, above 7 is good

I agree I wouldn't add any fish till your trites are gone, can you get ammonia? Maybe just add some fish food after your water change for the ammonia source and test again in a few day? If you have cycled filter media from another tank and haven't added it yet add it. You just need to be patient

I thought you may have miss read, ;) Shouldn't be to much longer on the cycle though, but bring your trites down by pwc and dose a small amount of ammonia. What are you planning on keeping? As fish said some may think ph 8 could be a little high for rams for example

Don't listen to fishanatic your cycle is not over, I'm at the same stage as you, no ammonia huge nitrite spike, and nitrates. I would do a big water change to bring nitrites to a readable amount, then dose a small amount of ammonia to say 2ppm and wait, it shouldn't be long