Heya!
long story short, got a fish i wasnt expecting and had to cycle a tank with him in it. Learnt how to do it, got a testing kit and have been changing the water daily the way you're supposed to. However, my ammonia is never really that high? when testing against the colour chart, i change it per 25ppm but it barely looks that high, it's definitely not ABOVE that. Checked the nitrites, low also. Nitrates are also low (though thats to be expected so far, right?). This will be day 5. PH is about 7.2.
I did a 50% water change tonight, just because i was feeding him frozen blood worms and it was getting everywhere so i had to do a bit of a cleanup but usually i do 25%. Treat the water with stress coat and a little bit of bio-active rapid start.
Am I missing something? I've been expecting spikes but I've yet to see any. I'm getting a bit worried im doing the tests wrong, but followed instructions to the very detail!
5 gallon tank, internal filter + light + heater, 1 betta, 1 apple snail and some java moss (introduced tonight w/ snail)
long story short, got a fish i wasnt expecting and had to cycle a tank with him in it. Learnt how to do it, got a testing kit and have been changing the water daily the way you're supposed to. However, my ammonia is never really that high? when testing against the colour chart, i change it per 25ppm but it barely looks that high, it's definitely not ABOVE that. Checked the nitrites, low also. Nitrates are also low (though thats to be expected so far, right?). This will be day 5. PH is about 7.2.
I did a 50% water change tonight, just because i was feeding him frozen blood worms and it was getting everywhere so i had to do a bit of a cleanup but usually i do 25%. Treat the water with stress coat and a little bit of bio-active rapid start.
Am I missing something? I've been expecting spikes but I've yet to see any. I'm getting a bit worried im doing the tests wrong, but followed instructions to the very detail!
5 gallon tank, internal filter + light + heater, 1 betta, 1 apple snail and some java moss (introduced tonight w/ snail)