Help with my ammonia reading please

[gregkarr09]

Ok this is my current ammonia test. The tank is 50 gallons and has been cycling for 16 days with old filter media and seachem stability and 20 to 35% water changes... Is this zero sorry for the bad pic

 

[CLDarnell]

Of course it's hard to tell exactly with an image, but it's "0"...or close enough

Nice job!

 

[Joe M]

Looks like 0, but did you have fish in it or dose with ammonia? I made this mistake before I was really into fish. Old filters+time-ammonia+stability= uncycled tank and dead fish.

If you did, Congratulations on a cycled tank!

 

[gregkarr09]

oh yeah my dumb ass added 5 angel fish 8 glowlight tetra's and 1 BN pleco on the second day...(not all at once, but in a week's time)

 

[gregkarr09]

PS I lost one angel to the whole ordeal

 

[SCGeordie]

As long as Nitrites are 0 and nitrates > 0 then looks like the tank is fully cycled, good job!

 

[Laticauda]

Good job, Greg!

 

[Jay88]

Is there anyway i can tell what my nitrites are without test kit? Its very expensive here...and the LFS won't do so many free tests

Tank has been cycling for over 2 weeks... ammonia 0, nitrate 15-20, last time i checked my nitrite was around 0.20-0.50

This was 3 days ago...i added some prime after that :./

 

[Juxtaroberto]

Is there anyway i can tell what my nitrites are without test kit? Its very expensive here...and the LFS won't do so many free tests

Tank has been cycling for over 2 weeks... ammonia 0, nitrate 15-20, last time i checked my nitrite was around 0.20-0.50

This was 3 days ago...i added some prime after that :./

I don't think so... your best bet would just be to wait it out, give the bacteria a couple of weeks to establish themselves.

 

[Jay88]

I don't think so... your best bet would just be to wait it out, give the bacteria a couple of weeks to establish themselves.

Roger that! ill give it another week... my zebra danios, guppies and betta so far look to be ok