Tmurphy,
Along similar lines for me. My Bio-wheel has been going on for almost 4 weeks now. My 1st week I had no fish, and the last three I've added leopard danio's.
My tap water here is very hard...reading about 13. And with recent hot weather I've been experiencing some evap as well. Every few days, I've added almost a
gal of pure R/O, to no avail....water test this morning still showed about 13. My Ph has remained constant from day 1: 7.7-7.8...still after 4 weeks!
My Amonia level recently climbed...I was at roughly .25ppm, but this morning it registered .50ppm. This could be due to the fact that my bio-filter has yet to take hold and that the fish flakes not eaten...(looks like they do get them all eventually) have added undesired Amonia. So I added Ammo-Lock for the 1st time today. 1tsp for each 10
gal as suggested. So I added 1.5tsp for my 16
gal tank. Will see what happens tomorrow.
My nitarates are still .25 and never moved.
I also added 1tsp of Stress-Zyme today as well....supposed to add beneficial bacteria, and directed to do it again on day 7 and 14.
LFS expert told me to hold off on a water change last week or a few weeks too on a new tank, which may be why my Ph hasn't gone down, and my Ammonia up. I'm starting to get wary from his advice as I was planning on adding a few more fish in about 1 week.
I know a few were against me adding 'Proper Ph' satchel, but if I don't have an improvemnt in teh next day or two, I may add it anyway. :|
Advice anyone?