CatJones66
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi there! I guess I'm looking for some feedback to let me know if I'm proceeding correctly. I have a 25g I'm setting up as a planted Angel tank. Right now I'm fishless cycling. I've followed all the steps in the guide to a "t". Everything's gone really great so far. Here's my setup:
25g - seeded with items from my 20g hex stable mated gourami tank: foam filter material, a nice large stone & about 5g of tank water
Marineland Emperor 400
bubble stone
heater at 82
medium rock w/ marine sand cover substrate at 2-2.5in
1 medium anubias
tank filled using Prime
11/20:I dosed 10ml ammonia to bring tank to 4.0ppm initially & just out of curiosity took the nitrite & nitrate readings too (thinking they'd be zero). The nitrites read 2.0 / nitrates 2.0
11/21: (1pm) Ammonia 2.0 / Nitrite 5.0+ / Nitrate 20
(8pm) Ammonia 1.0 / Nitrite 5.0+ / Nitrate 10-20
Did a pwc, waited 20mins, now readings are:
Ammon .50 / Nitrite 5.0+ / Nitrate 10-20
So, my question is ... should I continue to do pwc until the nitrite readings get down enough to read? Do I need to bring the ammonia back up to feed the bb growing while the nitrite -->nitrate bb's catch up? Or, do I just say "step away from the tank woman!"??
Any advice would be wonderful & thank you in advance!
25g - seeded with items from my 20g hex stable mated gourami tank: foam filter material, a nice large stone & about 5g of tank water
Marineland Emperor 400
bubble stone
heater at 82
medium rock w/ marine sand cover substrate at 2-2.5in
1 medium anubias
tank filled using Prime
11/20:I dosed 10ml ammonia to bring tank to 4.0ppm initially & just out of curiosity took the nitrite & nitrate readings too (thinking they'd be zero). The nitrites read 2.0 / nitrates 2.0
11/21: (1pm) Ammonia 2.0 / Nitrite 5.0+ / Nitrate 20
(8pm) Ammonia 1.0 / Nitrite 5.0+ / Nitrate 10-20
Did a pwc, waited 20mins, now readings are:
Ammon .50 / Nitrite 5.0+ / Nitrate 10-20
So, my question is ... should I continue to do pwc until the nitrite readings get down enough to read? Do I need to bring the ammonia back up to feed the bb growing while the nitrite -->nitrate bb's catch up? Or, do I just say "step away from the tank woman!"??
Any advice would be wonderful & thank you in advance!