JamieOi
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hi , this is my first post and I joined just to start this thread as I'm , well... Stumped!
Ok so starting from the beginning - I'm 13 and my fish keeping began with a the usual story of winning a goldfish from a fair only to watch it die in a tiny un-cycled tank ... And then feeling awful when I had to put him to sleep in clove oil.
So I got a 24litre tank, heater and I already had the filter from my goldfish. I bought an API master test kit and pure ammonia.
So I started adding to about 4ppm of ammonia.
After about 4 days I was beginning to build up my nitrites. And after another few days the nitrites were off the chart ... Well it is actually very hard to tell anything above about 2 ppm on the liquid test. Within a couple of days my nitrates were rising.they went up to about 60-80ppm and then wavered very slightly.Anyway, it's been about 2 weeks since then and nothing has changed... Sky high nitrites and between 80-160ppm nitrates... I'm lost! What's going on and what should I do? Also - when the drops of nitrite test start to sink they turn from the clear blue to a purple before I've shaken it. ?
Please explain and give advice
Thank you!!I want to get my fish soon
Ok so starting from the beginning - I'm 13 and my fish keeping began with a the usual story of winning a goldfish from a fair only to watch it die in a tiny un-cycled tank ... And then feeling awful when I had to put him to sleep in clove oil.
So I got a 24litre tank, heater and I already had the filter from my goldfish. I bought an API master test kit and pure ammonia.
So I started adding to about 4ppm of ammonia.
After about 4 days I was beginning to build up my nitrites. And after another few days the nitrites were off the chart ... Well it is actually very hard to tell anything above about 2 ppm on the liquid test. Within a couple of days my nitrates were rising.they went up to about 60-80ppm and then wavered very slightly.Anyway, it's been about 2 weeks since then and nothing has changed... Sky high nitrites and between 80-160ppm nitrates... I'm lost! What's going on and what should I do? Also - when the drops of nitrite test start to sink they turn from the clear blue to a purple before I've shaken it. ?
Please explain and give advice
Thank you!!I want to get my fish soon