Should I do water change weekly if numbers are good?

[NOTDaleJR88]

First off... glad to be here and enjoy this app / site immensely! A great source of knowledge for a guy like myself.


Bought a 25g tank... set it up and ran for a week and a half to get it cycling. However, I read quite a bit on the net about introducing fish to tank to bring along the cycle, etc.

So... have had my fish for a week now... they seem to be doing ok... and all the levels are good according to the test strips I have bought.


BUUUUUT... can my levels really be this good? I mean... a lot of the new tank owners on here all seem to have serious problems with the balance of the ammonia, nitrate & nitrite. So I have been very concerned about this since introducing the fish.

I feed the fish in the morning and early evening... I have a 30g Aqueon Filter (since the next lowest size was 20g).

So... the ammonia is 0, the Nitrate is 0 and the Nitrite is at 0. My water reads soft, the alkalinity is at about 130 (visually) and pH is 6.9


Those numbers all look good to me. So I don't know if I should still do a 10% weekly water change.

Not sure what I should do differently to be honest... but would love to hear any recommendations.

Thank you!

 

[George9]

What kind of fish is it? If its really small it could be why you are seeing 0 across the charts. The test strips are notoriously inaccurate too, so they could be the problem too

 

[Mumma.of.two]

How many fish and what kinds do you have? Very light stocking of a tank can help avoid major spikes in ammonia and nitrite while cycling. The test strips can be highly unreliable. I would suggest switching to a liquid test so you get more accurate readings.

 

[NOTDaleJR88]

I have 6 glofish. So yeah... not a huge amount of producers for a 25g tank maybe.


I will be buying the API Master Kit tomorrow. Just to be sure.