jlk
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Might be too sick to get into the car and drive, but never too sick to play around with the tank !
LOL!!!
Might be too sick to get into the car and drive, but never too sick to play around with the tank !
LOL!!!
Per instructions above, yesterday I changed 99.9% of the water, dosed back up to 4ppm ammonia. Today ammonia=0, nitrates=20, pH=6.8 (Yay!--But are the nitrates sufficiently down?) Then in the next line you said let tank run 24hrs after the big WC (WITHOUT ammonia)...Do I need to do another 100% WC without ammonia now, let run 24 hours and then check pH? Or do I do another ammonia dose to 4ppm one more time? Sorry I'm confused...and I hope I haven't confused YOU!!Wow! Your amm & nitrites zeroed out after 4ppm dose of amm? YAY!! This is great news! Go ahead & dose the amm again- if you continue to get zero readings for the next few days steadily, you can officially say your cycled! To proceed from this point, you will need to do 100% wc (ot two) to get your nitrates as low as possible (temp matched, conditioned water) and adjust the temp for your future fish. I would let your tank run for 24hrs after the big wc (no amm) and then test your ph & see where it sits before you purchase any fish & let us know what this reads & we will be able to advise you from here.
No, the pH drops the next day after the WC.Looks good! So the PH drops after a water change to the mid-6's? It might be that the PH straight out of your tap is mid-6 and then goes up to 7.4. We'll see what happens as Jlk said.