Cycle Questions
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roydooms
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Looks like nitrite and ammonia: 1.0ppm and nitrates is 5.0ppm. Are you doing fish-in or fish-less cycle?
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Love_MyFish
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Thanks, I a fish in cycle, doing 3 70% pwc a day.
TraceyB4602
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roydooms said:
I agree with those numbers. Your doing a fish in cycle so you really need to get those numbers down. I would suggest doing 3 70% PWC throughout the day as you re doing, but do these numbers come down at all from this after you change the water?
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BigJim
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+1 for TraceyB.
If you're cycling with fish, you don't want any more than 0.25ppm ammonia and 0.25ppm nitrite. That means lots of big PWCs.
If you're cycling with fish, you don't want any more than 0.25ppm ammonia and 0.25ppm nitrite. That means lots of big PWCs.
jakeandwendy
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im having the same problem...got an api master kit yesterday...Good thing too! i was having my LFS test my water, going down there daily. always came back 0ppm...for nitrates!! tested my ammonia 8.0ppm!!!! did a 90% wc got it down to two. had to work and did another test and 40% wc...started at 2.0ppm and still at 2.0. i dont want to lose my fish from stress because of the wc's but that 2.0 is scary.can anyone help? more wc's? smaller ones more frequently? two larger ones? would even consider lessening the bio load but would like too keep 'em all. HELP!
