Jferrante
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My tank is only like 2 weeks old right now and has 8 rummy nose tetras and a bunch of plants. I'm going to add two more plants in a few days as well.
I've been using, Flourish starter pack, stability, and prime.
Two days ago my ammonia went up to 0.25ppm so I did a 50% water change and added stability and stress zyme by API and prime. Yesterday it was still at 0.25 ppm but just used a dose of prime since I had a superbowl party at my house. I haven't had any nitrite readings at all since I started and my Nitrates were at a steady 5ppm till today. Today my readings for ammonia were around 0.1ppm with nirite at 0ppm and nitrate at like 2.5ppm. I did skip feeding them today however so that might be why the ammonia dropped as well. I've been slowly adding more plants this past week to fill out certain open spaces to that my future community will get along once I add them.This is where I am most confused about the cycle, I'm assuming the number of plants have been lowering the Nitrates since my ammonia went up but is now dropping and my nitrates seems to be half what it was this whole time. My Ph also has gradually dropped from 7.5 to about 6.8 as well.
Is this all a sign that my tank is just about cycled for these 8 Rummy-nose tetras. They seem as healthy as can be and are very active when the lights are on.
Anyways since a fish-in cycle with boosters like Stability can lead to a very quick and faint cycle I just want to makes sure this all sounds appropriate.
Edit: tested tap water PH and Nitrate
PH: 7.5
Nitrate: 0ppm ( could of sworn this was higher when I started the tank but maybe my the two lightly washed filter pads I kept in gave the 5ppm an jump started the cycle.)
More reasons to be unsure if it's actually cycled yet or not haha
I've been using, Flourish starter pack, stability, and prime.
Two days ago my ammonia went up to 0.25ppm so I did a 50% water change and added stability and stress zyme by API and prime. Yesterday it was still at 0.25 ppm but just used a dose of prime since I had a superbowl party at my house. I haven't had any nitrite readings at all since I started and my Nitrates were at a steady 5ppm till today. Today my readings for ammonia were around 0.1ppm with nirite at 0ppm and nitrate at like 2.5ppm. I did skip feeding them today however so that might be why the ammonia dropped as well. I've been slowly adding more plants this past week to fill out certain open spaces to that my future community will get along once I add them.This is where I am most confused about the cycle, I'm assuming the number of plants have been lowering the Nitrates since my ammonia went up but is now dropping and my nitrates seems to be half what it was this whole time. My Ph also has gradually dropped from 7.5 to about 6.8 as well.
Is this all a sign that my tank is just about cycled for these 8 Rummy-nose tetras. They seem as healthy as can be and are very active when the lights are on.
Anyways since a fish-in cycle with boosters like Stability can lead to a very quick and faint cycle I just want to makes sure this all sounds appropriate.
Edit: tested tap water PH and Nitrate
PH: 7.5
Nitrate: 0ppm ( could of sworn this was higher when I started the tank but maybe my the two lightly washed filter pads I kept in gave the 5ppm an jump started the cycle.)
More reasons to be unsure if it's actually cycled yet or not haha