camsoft
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
So I'm totally new to keep fish and kind of jumped into the whole thing but I'm a little overwhelmed but loving it.
Anyway I've got a fairly new fish tank had it for about 2 weeks now, it had about a week before I put fish in and has live plants. The tank now has 12 tetras, 6 glowlight and 6 neons.
I've been testing the water most days and it's been mostly the same readings each day, up to today I've recorded the following:
CL2 0
PH 7.2
KH 6°d
GH >16°d (we have very hard water due to soil being mostly chalk)
Nitrite 1mg/l
Nitrate 50 mg/l
Ammonia 0
But today the reading seems to have drastically changed:
CL2 0
PH 7.2
KH 6°d
GH >16°d
Nitrite 5mg/l
Nitrate 100 mg/l
Ammonia 0
The nitrite and nitrates for what I've been reading seem very high. Is this just a normal part of the cycle or something else, I think I may have been over feeding to try and make the food reach all the fish as some are more aggressive than others.
What confusing me is that I thought the Nitrite and Nitrates are converted from ammonia but I've never detected any. I'm using Tetra 6in1 testing strips.
Do I need to do anything i.e. water change, if so how much, I'm just worried about stressing the fish.
Thanks.
Anyway I've got a fairly new fish tank had it for about 2 weeks now, it had about a week before I put fish in and has live plants. The tank now has 12 tetras, 6 glowlight and 6 neons.
I've been testing the water most days and it's been mostly the same readings each day, up to today I've recorded the following:
CL2 0
PH 7.2
KH 6°d
GH >16°d (we have very hard water due to soil being mostly chalk)
Nitrite 1mg/l
Nitrate 50 mg/l
Ammonia 0
But today the reading seems to have drastically changed:
CL2 0
PH 7.2
KH 6°d
GH >16°d
Nitrite 5mg/l
Nitrate 100 mg/l
Ammonia 0
The nitrite and nitrates for what I've been reading seem very high. Is this just a normal part of the cycle or something else, I think I may have been over feeding to try and make the food reach all the fish as some are more aggressive than others.
What confusing me is that I thought the Nitrite and Nitrates are converted from ammonia but I've never detected any. I'm using Tetra 6in1 testing strips.
Do I need to do anything i.e. water change, if so how much, I'm just worried about stressing the fish.
Thanks.