jakeandwendy
Aquarium Advice Activist
set the tank up on 3/21, raised the temp to 84F, added a bubble bar, dosed the tank to 4.0ppm amm. kept it at 4.0ppm for 4 days. got a filter pack off of an established oscar tank and added it at day 5. Now my numbers are 1.0ppm amm, 5.0ppm n2 and <160ppm n3. Should i do a water change now or wait until the amm 0's out? I dosed the tank back up to 3.0ppm amm this a.m but it was down from the 4.0ppm amm the night before. Also my ph is unreadable its so high. i use the api fw master kit. theres nothing in the tank except some slate rock i got from the lfs and some crystal geodes. is this just part of the cycling process? if not i'll have to pull the geodes out, but the tanks at the lfs have geodes in them and they don't mess with them at all. Any thoughts suggestions tips are welcome and appreciated!!!