Recent content by Flotsam

I bought the API test kit today. Currently my ammonia level is somewhere between a 1.0 and a 2.0 from what I can tell. How bad is that? I've done almost a 50% water change today, will do more tomorrow. This is probably a dumb question, but do these water changes effect my cycle? I'd had my...

I'm new to the forum, and I really wish I'd found this place sooner, because I've already learned enough to know that I should have done things differently than I have so far. But here I am, better late than never. I was given a tank recently, about 53 gallons from what I can tell. Like many...