Here is my marble and zebra.
Woohoooo! You have nitrates! Now to just wait until nitrites and ammonia go down. You shouldn't have much longer to wait. Also, the angels from your store look ok. Much better specimens are out there, though. I have had a lot of bad luck with angels in the past couple years, lots are badly bred and overbred, and they just die. Even some I got from a breeder on aquabid just kind of faded away and died over a few months, showing no symptoms until they just lost strength and died, no other deaths from the tank in that time.
They look great! How do you care for angels?
Here are the angels from my petsmart
Nothing special Just NLS thera A + garlic 1mm pellets and weekly 50% water changes. And I filter at 10 X gph
They should do great in your tank
Retested the water!
Ammo 1.0ppm
Nitrite waaaaay past 5.0ppm. Its a super dark pink
Nitrates 5 to 10.0 ppm
I think you are close to doing to huge water change aren't you? Then dosing the ammo back up to 4 ppm?
I honestly dono! I do need some advice on that. I can see the nitrate color turned up a bit more lighter orange since last test today
just read it a little bit. Said when your nitrites & nitrates get to a level where you can't read it anymore you're supposed to do a 50-60 percent water change. Then keep an eye on your ph (not sure what your watching) then dose ammo back up to 4 ppm.
Then supposedly you'll test it & ammonia & nitrites will be gone.
Then your done, but dose ammonia back up to 4 4ppm & when it's gone in 24 hours your done.
In almost positive that's right lol.
That sounds about right!
Okay so I tested today and.....
Ph- 8.0
Ammo- 1.0ppm
Nitrite- 5.0ppm maybe more, prolly not
Nitrate- 80ppm to 160ppm
? Whats up now???
I wanna but I dono! Im gonna check the parameters now and see what it says and go by this one. I think with this seachem stability, its making the BB build up waaaaay bigger than the normal
That's what it's supposed to do I believe. It's supposed to go off the charts. & when it does that you're supposed to do a huge water change to bring the levels back down to readable. But I'm not 100 percent sure...kind of going off what I read (seeing how I have no experience) lol.