Ph help - new tank

[kwandrsn]

nutrafin cycle

* Immediately establishes a safe biological aquarium environment
* Powerful responsive ammonia and nitrite elimination
* Allows immediate introduction of fish
* For fresh and saltwater use

 

[rider6]

Lol right.... we started with a 2.5 gal betta....and now were on a 55...I waant to do like a 25 or 30 salt...just for some super colorfull lil guys and some cool stuff...

 

[kwandrsn]

Well we can't have another 20 so if I get my salt water tank it will have to be a 10

 

[kwandrsn]

I think I'll start it up and maybe down the road get a 29

 

[rider6]

Just say you got it on sale....that usally works...lol

 

[kwandrsn]

No its the land lord. She freaked over the 20 gallon. Says in our lease we can only have a 10 gallon per room.

 

[kwandrsn]

Right now petco has 1$ pet gallon sale I would love to get a 29 or 40

 

[rider6]

Oh that sucks...we own our house...NO RULES! Lol

Yea I went to petsmart and was loooking for a 20 or 30 something and the topfin 55 with filter, heater, and some lighting was like half price with their loyalty card thing...so I ended up getting it...lol. we didn't need a stand cause our house has an indoor planter thing built of natural stone bricks...and since we first saw this place we allways wanted a fishtank there.....

 

[kwandrsn]

That's awesome. Yeah we will own this house someday. Its a brand new 3bed 2full bath. It was built for us by my wifes brother in law. We are renting to own but until they get insurance they put that in the lease cause they had a son that crashed a tank in their living room. And while they were building this house they had a water line bust at their house and flooded the whole house so they are bring paranoid . They don't care about pets. I am building a platform for us to put the 20 gallon and desk on

 

[kwandrsn]

I'm building a platform that had a kinda lip around it and the water will drain inside the platform and I'm using a scrap pool liner for the inside and gonna have a sub pump do if it leaked all if have to do is run a house to the tub and plug the pump in

 

[rider6]

Smart man...sorry for the dark pic...its bed time for them lol.. I need to flex my dyi alil more when it comes to the tank...maybe for the salt I will...

 

[kwandrsn]

Its cool you have that to put a tank on. its giving me ideas lol uh oh

 

[kwandrsn]

Ok new test results ?
Ammonia 0.25 - 0.50 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm completely blue
Nitrate 5 - 10 ppm

Nitrites went down but ammonia went up as well as nitrates?
Why'd the ammonia rise

Water looks a little cloudy

 

[fort384]

Patience! It will take more than a couple days. Water change if ammonia or nitrite go over 0.25ppm

 

[kwandrsn]

It just confused me. the nitrites disappeared but the ammonia went back up

 

[fort384]

Your tank is not cycled yet. It will happen. It isn't a step by step rigid process of events. If you have ammonia and nitrite, the tank is still cycling. There will come a day in the near future where you have 0 detectable.

 

[kwandrsn]

I figured the ammonia was going down and the nitrites were going down that they would stay down.

I'm guessing it crashed and is starting back up?
Had ammonia spike then nitrite spike now another ammonia spike

 

[fort384]

I wouldn't call a 0.25ppm change over 24 hours a spike.

 

[kwandrsn]

Well its almost to 0.5 I know it isn't a spike but I thought once it was gone it was gone. I was excited to see nitrites were gone finally

I'm running a new test just to make sure

Ok it is between .5 and 1 I'm going to do another pwc

 

[kwandrsn]

Ok new readings nothing has changed in the past couple of days