are these water-parameters ok for discus

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fishyjoe26

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ammonia .25
ph 7.2
nitrite 0
nitrate 5.0

can I add some of my discus back to the 135,or should everything but the ph read "O"I read somewhere that there needs to be some ammonia for the tank to cycle is that true. I've forgot some of the stuff I have learned. (I didn't go to college, I guess learning stuff here I'll get a degree in fish keeping
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You should have zero ammonia. What's the deal with this tank? Did you just set it up or what? Need more info dude!:WTF:
 
billy this is the tank, that had the fx5 spit all the carbon in to the tank, so drained the tank. keeping the filter still wet. scooped all the gravel out of it and put in a big trash bag. then I added the pool filter sand, and filled the tank back up with water. doubled dosed it with prime and stablitiy and those where the reading from a api test kit a half a day later. now
(this is a copy and paste where I asked the same question, and this is my responds to some questions people asked me on simplydiscus.com)
8-10 wild greens. I have 5 on hold, and finely got my check yesterday.
my tank is a 135-140?(84x16x24), I have a fx5 with the foam pads,bio-max,
and eheim substrat in it. the bottom substrate is pool filter sand. the temp is 85. I'm using 2 - 250 watt eheim jager heaters to heat the water(plan to get a inline heater soon).

ok those readings I have you where from a api test kit.
now just 10 mins(now 30 mins ago).here are the readings with my red sea test kit.
ammonia -0
nitrite- a light light purple couldn't figure out the reading
nitrate-0
ph-7.4
also there I forgot to put the air stone back in the tank plug in the airpump I just now did that. would not having air in the tank, make a differents in the water para readings?
 
No doubt you are experiencing a mini cycle. i would not put any discus in it, especially wilds, until you have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, with only nitrate showing. In the future (this is what I do) when you have to temporary shut down down a tank, run you filter on another tank that is up and running to keep from having such a massive bacteria die off. A lot of bacteria probably died off from lack of food, or oxygen.
 
hillbilly;3162597; said:
No doubt you are experiencing a mini cycle. i would not put any discus in it, especially wilds, until you have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, with only nitrate showing. In the future (this is what I do) when you have to temporary shut down down a tank, run you filter on another tank that is up and running to keep from having such a massive bacteria die off. A lot of bacteria probably died off from lack of food, or oxygen.
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thanks. the only other tank I have is a 55G and that where most the discus.
I did sell around 15. I'll keep testing each night before I go to bed, and each morning when I wake up and keep you updated thanks billy.

joseph "joe, or joey"
 
If there are no fish in that tank, you're going to need a source of ammonia for the bacteria to feed on, otherwise you'll lose cycle completely. Throw some fish food or something in there to breakdown and grow bacteria.
 
hillbilly;3165917; said:
If there are no fish in that tank, you're going to need a source of ammonia for the bacteria to feed on, otherwise you'll lose cycle completely. Throw some fish food or something in there to breakdown and grow bacteria.
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thanks, would some green Cory catfish, or bumble bee catfish work.
I'll even sprinkle some fish food in there.
 
thanks billy, I added 10 bubble bee catfish, and that did the trick. I got the water tested with those pen prob test and everything was perfect.
 
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