eco23
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PaulG5372 said:Thanks eco, you're a great help, will post results again soon!
Happy to help. This is a science experiment for me too
PaulG5372 said:Thanks eco, you're a great help, will post results again soon!
PaulG5372 said:More Chem Results
6/2: 11:00PM
Ammonia: Dosed back up to 4 ppm
6/3: 5:00PM
Ammonia: 2 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 10 ppm
6/4: 5:00PM
Ammonia: .5 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 20 ppm
Dosed back up, but didn't record how much.
6/5: 4:45PM
Ammonia: .5 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
9:00PM dosed back up to 4 ppm
6/6: 5:00PM
Ammonia: 3
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Seeing drops is ammonia, however not all that fast and variable. Not seeing ANY nitiItes though?
Do you think the tank is actually cycling or are my plants having some effect? Seems to me that the two small plants I have couldn't use up that much ammonia though.
Still scratching my head on why I'm not seeing any nitrites.
PaulG5372 said:Thanks eco, I will definitely make sure that it is stable. Also never posted this but the brand of ammonia I'm using is majestic extra strength ammonia, only surface bubbles when shaken that immediately disappear when shaken so I'm assuming that the ammonia source is not a problem. No ingredient list on the bottle.
pantherspawn said:What of the possibility that the nitrite test in he kind is faulty and there is in fact nitrites being produced. The ammo has to be converted by something as the levels keep dropping. Have you tried using a different nitrite tester?
pantherspawn said:Yeah I read the thread.. my head still hurts.. lol just doesn't make any sense at all.. unless there is an unknown microorganism that is produced in the bottle miracles that can grow and feed without producing nitrites in the conversion.
PaulG5372 said:And a long as there are gullible people like me (even after getting a biology degree), they'll keep making them haha. Oh well, should have known better.
On a side note, the tank has developed a slight cloudiness in the past day and a half, which is common during a cycle according to other posts.
PaulG5372 said:Yes, I guess i'd call it milky. A little late for sure! I hope it's a good sign too!
I did add fish food once, should I be adding it again later on while cycling or leave it?
PaulG5372 said:Ammonia is still at 3 ppm after another 24 hours.
When reading the long thread with libraygirl's issue I see you guys talking about Crushed Coral and aragonite. Would it be worth a shot to put a bag of that in my aquarium to see if it helped at all with the cycle, since you said there are no negatives to it. I need to head to the pet store tomorrow anyways. I need to look at some fish since I still can't get any.....
PaulG5372 said:Will get some tomorrow then. Is CC or the argaronite preferred? Can it be placed anywhere in the aquarium?
I'm working on getting some used filter media to help out, but no luck so far. Wish some of the members on here lived close.
I was crossing my fingers to see a good reduction in ammonia since last night, but not so. I did add that ground up fish food so I imagine that is releasing a small amount of ammonia while it is decomposing.
At least with the time spent cycling I've had a good amount of time to read up on all the threads here!
PaulG5372 said:pH of aquarium is at 8.0.
pH of tap water is 7.4
Ammonia is 3 ppm
Nitrites are 0 ppm
Nitrates have climbed to 30 ppm or so. That **** test is hard to read.
Aquarium pH seems a little high?