TXaquaFanatic
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Just have a goldfish in it. Water has been in there for about a month now. Is the ammonia at a like oh my your fish is going to die lvl?
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Your water change schedule sounds fine.
What kind of filter are you using? The key in cycling is the establishment of beneficial bacteria (BB) in the filter's biomedia. Depending on the filter, cartridges are often used and routinely disposed of and replaced with new ones on a regular basis. The disadvantage of doing is is the removal of the BB in the old cartridge. If possible, simply rinse the cartridge in water that was removed during a water change and reuse it.
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Looks more like .50 to me, and you have 0 nitrates it looks like, which to me means your tank isn't cycled.
Suggestions on what the nitrates lvls should be? I thought 0 was ok, but after a lot of reading done in the past hour I am seeing that I thought wrong ha.
Yea and eventually you will get into the cycle of things and not even bother with test kits anymore.. I don't use kits anymore unless im having some freaky die off or something which never happens to me anyway.. So I just change the water in my tanks on a regular basis and not worry about what the PH or nitrates are at and so forth