Having a problem with my fish tank. It's been set up for over 2 months now with six danios in it (29g tank). It looks like it's cycled as nitrAtes will usually show about 5ppm or so. It is lightly planted. However, ammonia is almost always .25ppm. It never really goes higher than that which leads me to believe the tank is cycled. We tested the tap water the other day and it came out reading ammonia as .25ppm. Now, we ARE adding PRIME to the tank whenever we add water, so the ammonia isn't toxic to the fish, but it still reads on the test kit...
Anything to do about this and the readings?
How could we make FULLY sure the tank is cycled? We started the tank up with stability and then added fish and plants and did water changes as needed just over two months ago. There was a time where we added three guppies. One died overnight, which the fish store said was likely due to stress. The second one died a few days later, and the store said our PH was too high, probably likely to not gravel vaccing the tank, which we then went and did. He also suggested we add aquarium salt to the tank, which we went ahead and did. The third guppy was doing fine for about 2 weeks and then up and died...no idea why. We suspected an ammonia spike, but tested the levels and it was .25ppm ammonia with 5ppm nitrAtes and 0 nitrItes. We exchanged one of the guppies for a glofish, and she's been doing fine ever since. I don't want to add ANY MORE fish until I figure this problem out.
Hopefully I can get some help on these issues and start enjoying my tank more instea of worrying all the time about it!
Anything to do about this and the readings?
How could we make FULLY sure the tank is cycled? We started the tank up with stability and then added fish and plants and did water changes as needed just over two months ago. There was a time where we added three guppies. One died overnight, which the fish store said was likely due to stress. The second one died a few days later, and the store said our PH was too high, probably likely to not gravel vaccing the tank, which we then went and did. He also suggested we add aquarium salt to the tank, which we went ahead and did. The third guppy was doing fine for about 2 weeks and then up and died...no idea why. We suspected an ammonia spike, but tested the levels and it was .25ppm ammonia with 5ppm nitrAtes and 0 nitrItes. We exchanged one of the guppies for a glofish, and she's been doing fine ever since. I don't want to add ANY MORE fish until I figure this problem out.
Hopefully I can get some help on these issues and start enjoying my tank more instea of worrying all the time about it!