Hey everyone,
I set up my tank last Saturday 10/20/12. Initially I had just the conditioned water, heater, and filter going along with the lighting. 3 days later on Monday, I bought play sand, rinsed about 20-25lbs of it and put it in the tank. Once the cloudyness settled, I set up shale fish caves and put in the lily and aponogeton bulbs. My API master kit came in on Thursday and I've been testing once in the morning and once at night. I added clear ammonia Thursday night. I might've added too much as I'm around 3-4ppm. Its hovered around that level since then. No indication of nitrites yet.
I just tested my tap water and it shows very low levels of ammonia (if any). I'm gonna do a 30% water change to try and get the ammonia levels in my tank down to about .50ppm.
My plant bulbs at showing signs of sprouting soon, hopefully within the week.
I'm excited to finally be posting on this forum and being a part of the community. Hope everyone is doing well.
End of first week test results:
Ph- 7.8
Ammonia- ~3-4ppm
Nitrite- 0ppm
Nitrate- 0ppm
I set up my tank last Saturday 10/20/12. Initially I had just the conditioned water, heater, and filter going along with the lighting. 3 days later on Monday, I bought play sand, rinsed about 20-25lbs of it and put it in the tank. Once the cloudyness settled, I set up shale fish caves and put in the lily and aponogeton bulbs. My API master kit came in on Thursday and I've been testing once in the morning and once at night. I added clear ammonia Thursday night. I might've added too much as I'm around 3-4ppm. Its hovered around that level since then. No indication of nitrites yet.
I just tested my tap water and it shows very low levels of ammonia (if any). I'm gonna do a 30% water change to try and get the ammonia levels in my tank down to about .50ppm.
My plant bulbs at showing signs of sprouting soon, hopefully within the week.
I'm excited to finally be posting on this forum and being a part of the community. Hope everyone is doing well.
End of first week test results:
Ph- 7.8
Ammonia- ~3-4ppm
Nitrite- 0ppm
Nitrate- 0ppm