Greeny
Aquarium Advice Regular
I am trying to cycle a new tank using pure ammonia and I'm using filter media from an established tank. I expected something to happen quickly because of the filter media, but nothing was happening so I started looking for answers.
My tap water has added chloramine, but I hadn't conditioned it, I had just waited for the chlorine to evaporate, but now I know that chloramine does not evaporate.
So I added Aquaplus to remove the chloramine, and then an hour later I added gravel from the established tank. After adding the Aquaplus, the bubbles from the air stones started accumulating on top of the water. It isn't foamy or iridescent like soap bubbles.
Does Aquaplus cause this? Or did removing the chloramine allow soap bubbles to form when they didn't before?
Ammonia is about 4 and Nitrite and Nitrate are zero. The tank has Malasian driftwood and some Java fern and a few other ornaments.
If anyone has any idea what could be causing this, or even knows whether it could be harmful (to either the cycle or to fish when I add them), I would appreciate your advice.
Thanks,
Greeny.
My tap water has added chloramine, but I hadn't conditioned it, I had just waited for the chlorine to evaporate, but now I know that chloramine does not evaporate.
So I added Aquaplus to remove the chloramine, and then an hour later I added gravel from the established tank. After adding the Aquaplus, the bubbles from the air stones started accumulating on top of the water. It isn't foamy or iridescent like soap bubbles.
Does Aquaplus cause this? Or did removing the chloramine allow soap bubbles to form when they didn't before?
Ammonia is about 4 and Nitrite and Nitrate are zero. The tank has Malasian driftwood and some Java fern and a few other ornaments.
If anyone has any idea what could be causing this, or even knows whether it could be harmful (to either the cycle or to fish when I add them), I would appreciate your advice.
Thanks,
Greeny.