Hi guys! I recently acquired this second hand 130L curved glass aquarium. Being a little unsure of its previous history, everything was stripped out of it, cleaned with pure diluted bleach, and dried.
I set the tank up in early January. In my filter I've got:
I've added 10 Neon Tetras to get the ammonia started, and have been using bottled bacteria to try and keep the cycling as short as possible. Alas though, ammonia has been above 4PPM for a couple of weeks now, but zero nitrite has been detected, while the ammonia has continued to steadily. What gives?
My smaller 40L tank is happily producing nitrate and houses a happy community of fish - and I'm struggling to work out where I've gone wrong with the larger tank - which I was hoping to migrate to.
Tank parameters/info:
pH: 6.8
Ammonia: 6-7 PPM
Nitrite: 0 PPM
Nitrate: 0 PPM
Help please!?!!
I set the tank up in early January. In my filter I've got:
- Seachem Matrix
- reactivated Seachem Purigen
- coarse sponge
- old filter wool and noodles from my other mature tank.
I've added 10 Neon Tetras to get the ammonia started, and have been using bottled bacteria to try and keep the cycling as short as possible. Alas though, ammonia has been above 4PPM for a couple of weeks now, but zero nitrite has been detected, while the ammonia has continued to steadily. What gives?
My smaller 40L tank is happily producing nitrate and houses a happy community of fish - and I'm struggling to work out where I've gone wrong with the larger tank - which I was hoping to migrate to.
Tank parameters/info:
pH: 6.8
Ammonia: 6-7 PPM
Nitrite: 0 PPM
Nitrate: 0 PPM
Help please!?!!