kostasonia
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hi all, I give you the short history of the cycling of my tank:
4Aug:
*** Filled up the tank with 50L of distiled water and 60L of tap water.
The characteristics of my tap water are:
pH = 8.0
kH > 10
GH > 16
NO2 = 0
NO3 = slightly detected
*** threw some bacteria they gave me in the local store like Basillus, Lactobasillus, Streptococcus.
10Aug:
I decided to put 1 small danio zebra in my tank, since then I´m feeding it with very few food, 3 or four times stayed 1 day without eating.
12Aug:
Put 3 Anubias enanas and 1 Microsorum pteropus
pH = 7.2
kH = 3
GH = 10
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
17Aug:
pH = 7.0
kH = 3
GH = 12
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
20Aug:
pH = 6.8
kH < 3
GH = 12
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
22Aug:
Added 2 Egerias densas, 2 Vallisneria spiralis
25Aug:
pH = 6.8
kH < 3
GH = 12
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = 10mg/l
============================
So, 21 days after setting it up, the NO3 starts to go up but I NEVER detected NO2!!!
Should I consider the tank almost cycled????
Should I start slowly adding fishes???
4Aug:
*** Filled up the tank with 50L of distiled water and 60L of tap water.
The characteristics of my tap water are:
pH = 8.0
kH > 10
GH > 16
NO2 = 0
NO3 = slightly detected
*** threw some bacteria they gave me in the local store like Basillus, Lactobasillus, Streptococcus.
10Aug:
I decided to put 1 small danio zebra in my tank, since then I´m feeding it with very few food, 3 or four times stayed 1 day without eating.
12Aug:
Put 3 Anubias enanas and 1 Microsorum pteropus
pH = 7.2
kH = 3
GH = 10
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
17Aug:
pH = 7.0
kH = 3
GH = 12
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
20Aug:
pH = 6.8
kH < 3
GH = 12
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
22Aug:
Added 2 Egerias densas, 2 Vallisneria spiralis
25Aug:
pH = 6.8
kH < 3
GH = 12
NO2 = slightly detected (<1mg/l)
NO3 = 10mg/l
============================
So, 21 days after setting it up, the NO3 starts to go up but I NEVER detected NO2!!!
Should I consider the tank almost cycled????
Should I start slowly adding fishes???