Good point Nimo....though my LFS uses UV sterilizers on every tank...never seen such clean tanks before.
Hey guys. I've just had a thought. When I set my tank up I had a little desktop aquarium that I'd bought not realising how small it was. Put water in it and left it there forgetting about it. I've just tested the water in it and the levels are as such.
Ph - 6.4
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrite - 0 ppm
Nitrate - 0 ppm.
The water is clean and not murky. Is this water 'cycled' and if I pour this water into my tank would it kick start the cycle? There's only about a litre of it
What do you think?
"I have been doing 30% water changes every day for 3 days, using API stress coat plus to make the tap water safe. But it doesn't seem to have helped much"
Just a note in case. I have the API stress coat say it removes chlorine, chloramines and heavy metals. I use it with API ammo lock which also detoxifies ammonia. I'm not sure api stress coat handles ammonia - if anyone may know? I'm just reading off the bottles.
The API stress coat plus is what I started off with and useing the Ammo loc. The Ammo loc will give you false readings on ammonia because it doesnt kill the ammonia it detoxifies it. The stress coat plus is a decent dechlorinator but the problem with it is you still have to use other products along with it to detox the water such as the ammo loc.
I highly recommend useing Prime its basicly an all in one bottle. Cost about the same maybe a little more than the API but you only need the one bottle it detoxifys pretty much everything with out giving you false test readings. You also dont have to use as much of it for each water change so it lasts alot longer.
What you are doing is what you need to do. Water changes and more water changes.
Dont get discuraged you cant make a cycle happen over night as much as we would all love that. Patience and dedication to your fishy friends is what it takes.
Use up the chemicals you have so its not wasted money but when you go to get more look for prime it will save you bunches of money in the long run.
Thanks for the info. Yes, from what I've read prime is what I want next. I was also thinking that if it can detoxify nitrite and nitrate it would be useful for a sick fish tank where the bb may get destroyed or not be at right levels? Say for medicines that go for three days, etc.