redneckgearhead
Aquarium Advice Freak
Alright. I think i'll be getting my first fish at the end of next week or so. Im in the process of getting 3 powerheads (Hopefully!) cause all i have atm is 1 Rio plus 400 was supposed to be 2. I followed some over advice about putting the fish food in the tank to see if something happened with the nitrates and ammonia etc. If anything happened at all the ammonia etc.. if it could even do that. So what now? like i said before i was under the assumption that the less ammonia i had the better?
yes you are right the less ammonia you have the better but you need the ammonia at the beginning of the cycle to form the bacteria you need to convert the ammonia that comes naturally from living creatures to nitrites, then nitrates. That is "the cycle" once your ammonia is converted to nitrates your good to go.