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These were my readings from 10-20-10, pH 6.6 Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrite 0 ppm Nitrate 5.0 ppm These are my readings before my water change today, pH 7.6 Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrite 0 ppm Nitrate 10 ppm And after the water change, pH 7.6 Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrite 0 ppm Nitrate 5.0 ppm So my pH jumped up...

Hey thanks for the advice.:grin: I don't have any further questions at this time. Thanks Nate

New readings as of tonight pH 6.6 Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrite 0 ppm Nitrate 5.0 ppm My Nitirate is 5.0 ppm now and was 0 ppm on Friday. What does this mean? Also what is the best way to clean the test tubes and also should I dedicate each test tube for a particlular test and if so what is...

OK I will do that. Also what temp should I have my tank set for? I have it set at 74 degrees right now. My plants where doing great until I raised the temp to kill ich. Thanks Nate

So my pH is good:grin: I retested my nitrites and it looks to be closer to 0 than .25 (more blue than purple) When should I take my readings if I usually do water changes on Sunday or Tuesday?

Do you guys think my pH is to high?

So I tested the pH in my tap water and it was the same blue color as my test reading for my tank which I interpet as between 7.2-7.6 I test my tap water also with the HIGH RANGE pH test and it looked to be below 7.4 (it was a yellow color)

So I bought the API test kit and here are my readings pH 7.2-7.6 Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrite 0-0.25 ppm Nitrate 0 ppm So what do the readings say? How do I bring my pH down? I usually change out 5 gallons of water on Sundays or Tuesdays so when is the best time to do...

Thanks for the reply. I am not sure what plant it is. I do trim it down in length but it sprouted new growth so now there are four plants. I had trouble getting them to grow at first but my lfs recommend flourish tablets and they seem to work good. I put several tablets in about every 3...

So should the levels all read 0? Also the plant on the right has expanded to four and I have been trimming the length down, should I be concerned about them taking up to much space? What advantages or disadvantages do live plants have? Thanks for all the help. Nate

I don't know what kind of test they would use but it would take them about 10 minutes to tell me the results, but they would just tell me every thing looked good (not tell me the numbers). I will be buying a kit by tomorrow night.:) I have been trying to read about tank cycles, ich, water...

Hi, this is my 14 Gallon BioCube that currently has: 2 Bronze Cory's 1 Gold Honey Gourami 1 Banded Dwarf Cichlid 1 Dalmatian Molley Live Plants Snails I just recently battled ich,:( so the plants don't look very healthy and there is some algea in the tank becuase I raised the temp to the...

Hey guys I hope to learn alot. I've had a tank now for about 20 months and many fish have suffered :sorry: I will probably just hang out for a while and try to learn before I jump in with alot of newbie questions:-) I have a 14 Gallon BioCube with 2 Bronze Cory's 1 Gold Honey Gourami 1...