NASCAR_Dave
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Howdy folks, I finally got up and running and now I have - you got it - another question . I put 8 Danios and 5 Tiger Barbs in my tank to get the process started, and I immediately started testing (actually even before I put the fish in) to keep track of the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels. Strangely, my ammonia never got over about .5-.75, and my nitrites were almost always nonexistent. I am now measuring about 2 ppm on the nitrate scale, and the ammonia and nitrites are at 0. I even bought a second test kit at PetsMart just to make sure I wasn't using the test wrong or that something was wrong with the first kit. Does this make any sense, or am I doing something wrong? I do have about 15 stalks of anachris in 5 bunches of 3 each, and my tank is a 135g, so I don't think the plants should have too much effect on the levels.