okpondlady
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
My ammonia is down to 2.0. I have done water changes 25% until yesterday when I didn't do one at all. Today I put in the Zeolite that my local pet shop sold me to get it down. 2.0 down from almost off the scale 8.+ is pretty good but still need to get down to 0. The snails making whoopie didn't help. Hopefully that will be all the eggs I will get for awhile and the ammonia will stay down. After testing and getting a 2.0 I added some ammonium lock stuff so it will be safe.
Hopefully I am getting this down right. Everything else is fine, NitritItes at 0 and NitrAtes at 7 so it is finished with cycling. If I can just keep my snails going. I also brought in some Pennywort from the pond and planted. We will see how that looks, I can't wait. Mark is just laughing at me. He says I am fixing to have the monumental algea attack from He!!... Just because I brought in some pennywort?? I don't know.. maybe.
Also I have one question. Does keeping the lights on 24/7 make the ammonia increase? I don't see how that can happen. I havn't read it anywhere but he says it does.
Thanks,
Karen
Hopefully I am getting this down right. Everything else is fine, NitritItes at 0 and NitrAtes at 7 so it is finished with cycling. If I can just keep my snails going. I also brought in some Pennywort from the pond and planted. We will see how that looks, I can't wait. Mark is just laughing at me. He says I am fixing to have the monumental algea attack from He!!... Just because I brought in some pennywort?? I don't know.. maybe.
Also I have one question. Does keeping the lights on 24/7 make the ammonia increase? I don't see how that can happen. I havn't read it anywhere but he says it does.
Thanks,
Karen