Nightstalker3188
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2012
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- 38
I thought I had the hang of this and was happy with what i was seeing, however even though my ammonia levels drop to 0 over 24 hrs my nitrites and nitrates are low.... Nitrites are .50 and nitrates are 5.0. That's using api chemical test kit, however using api test strips the levels are off the chart... So which one do I believe??? I thought if the ammonia is being broken up that the other levels would spike... For a 48ltr tropical tank which is on day 15 of a fishless cycle....
On another forum someone asked if i had live plants in my tank, I do, about 5 or 6 of them... Someone then stated to take them out as thy give a wrong ammonia reading....
I'm totally confused now as I thought i could cycle the tank with plants in it... Only now I don't know what to expect as I'm not getting the Nitrite spike nor a Nitrate one....
On another forum someone asked if i had live plants in my tank, I do, about 5 or 6 of them... Someone then stated to take them out as thy give a wrong ammonia reading....
I'm totally confused now as I thought i could cycle the tank with plants in it... Only now I don't know what to expect as I'm not getting the Nitrite spike nor a Nitrate one....