pachuco2k
Aquarium Advice Regular
What's up aquarium homies!! Its El Pachuco again needing some input on the current state of my tank. I have a 20 gallon tank (see pics) with 4 Zebra Danios that has existed now for 26 days. Its pH has been consistently 7.8, avg temp at 76 degrees F. I had an ammonia spike on my 14th day where it hit 3ppm after having been consistently at 1ppm through the first two weeks. The next day it was at 1ppm again. In week 3 the ammonia level started dipping below and today it measured at 0ppm for the first time. What puzzles me is that I have not had a Nitrite or Nitrate reading the entire time. I'm thinking that it could be to my Danios not putting much of a Bio-load on my system. I never add anything to the water unless I'm changing it. That when I add Bio-Safe. I added Bio-coat before I put the Danios in way back when. I don't think my tank has cycled otherwise I would get a Nitrate reading since it progressively should get larger after a cycle. I'm thinking about adding 2 more fish in there to increase the bio-load to get a reading of some sort on the bacteria side. What do you guys think? Sorry for the long post. Some of you are number purists out there so here you are!! Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!! Whoops, I forgot to add that there is a slight cloudiness in my tank. Is that a bloom?