maxwell1295 said:
Gunnie said:
maxwell1295 said:
I put a pack in my 30
gal about 24 hours ago. Nothing has happened yet. I guess we'll see if some nitrites pop up over the next couple of days...
If your experience turns out like mine, you will never see nitrites, and you will have nitrates within 24 hours.
I had 0.5ppm of ammonia (with fish) when I got home. I did a 25%
pwc and got it down to 0.25ppm. That was last night.....this morning ammonia was at 0ppm. Still no signs of nitrites or nitrates. I guess we'll have to see what tomorrow does...
Error...Error....Does not compute!
Your numbers don't make any sense. If you have 0.5ppm ammonia and do a 25%
PWC, you still have 0.375ppm ammonia (theoretically). You would have needed to do a 50%
PWC to get down to 0.25. I can understand however since its tough to judge exactly what the color is.
But the second part makes no sense at all. If you had 0.25ppm ammonia last night, and today you have zero ammonia, you HAVE to have either nitrIte or nitrAte present. It can't just dissapear (unless you have plants?). I'd redo the tests to see if you get different results.