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My apologies for the late response. I will act on your advice with the freshwater salt, once the cycle reaches to the nitrite stage. Also very interesting to read on your PH test. Such a massive comparison. I'm yet to do a PH reading with the water sitting out for 24hrs, but i will, just to see...

Thanks for your indepth reply, in particular with the ammolock. The last thing i need is to slow down the cycle or even worse, having it come to a stand still. I have done water changes and the ammonia level is diminishing gradually. My nitrite is at 0ppm at the moment but i haven't reached the...

PH level for cold water setup is around 7.0. To my understanding and please correct me if i'm wrong, i've set the PH level to 6.6 which reduces the toxic effect of NH3. I have added ammolock to lock the amonia toxicity into a non-toxic matter. I do know that the amonia level will still test...

Yes, i have got amonia and nitrite testing kits in addition to PH and water hardner. Upon testing, the nitrire was okay but the amonia had a high reading of 1.0. I'm surprised i haven't lost any fish as a result. I did a 40% water change to lower the amonia level, set the PH level to 6.6 and...

Thanks guys for your advice, both to JDogg and blazeyreef. I have 5 goldfish in total (The fancy ones) and a few small ones, not small enough to be eaten!! Tomorrow i will go past the aquarium supply and purchase an amonia testing kit. Great idea JDogg. Sounds like you've got a good setup...

Hi blazeyreef. Thanks for giving me my first welcome to AA. Yes, i did wash my gravel in part increments which was relatively clean when i put it in the tank. One would definitely think that after running the UGF for one week, it should've rid at least some cloudiness, but that wasn't to be...

Hello all. I have recently set up a cold water aquarium with a capacity of 140 litres (35 gal). I was running an undergravel filter that came as part of the tank setup when purchased. The water was always cloudy, eventhough i added water clarifier to rid the cloudiness. I became rather annoyed...