Nitrate ?

[DDK]

I don't think Stability speeds up the cycle. I think it just renders Ammonia non-toxic to fish. Helps keep your fish from dying while the BB colony catches up. Personally, if it was me, I'd call it done. You get close to 0 ammonia, and 0 Nitrite, and you're measuring some Nitrates. That means you have bacteria turning Nitrite to Nitrate, since you were getting Nitrite readings previously. Just add fish slowly, make sure you use Prime when do a Water Change if you have chlorine or chloramine in your tap water. I have 2 tanks cycled for close to a year now, they never read exactly 0 Ammonia, they always read 0 Nitrite, and they always read at least 5-10 ppm Nitrate--and as high as 60-80 ppm Nitrate sometimes. I think you're good.

Stability has been proven by many members on this board but of course they may be some bad batches. I think if you never have ammonia at 0 your reading your test kit wrong or your using prime which gives a false positive reading of ammonia.

Put some fish in it. They'll be fine.

They will not! I wouldnt risk any more or less expensive fish in a uncycled tank.

Edit adding on to this

how bigs the arowana? just asking because a larger fish has a much larger bio load and you may still go through a mini cycle.

To TheBroc just feed light for a week and you should be fine. Just test the water every other day and do a water change if theres any ammonia.

 

[TheBroc]

Ragin_Cajun is not a very intelligent source of information. I sure am not going to listen to his terrible advice ....sure hope no one else does either. I can only guess how many dead fish he has on his hands.

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[jaws7777]

Danielcho
As of this morning ammonia looked like 0 or close to it amd nitrate was loke 1-2 ppm amd nitrate was 20-40 ppm whatcha thinkin mon

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[TheBroc]

Jaws what is in you're tank during this cycling period ? Anything? Or using faithless cycle ?

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[jaws7777]

Jaws what is in you're tank during this cycling period ? Anything? Or using faithless cycle ?

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Danios and tiger barbs....and I agree im not putting anything in there till its cycled work hard for my dough... I didnt even bother commenting on some of the things that were suggested

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[jaws7777]

Also not sure what he meant by stability keeps the fish safe ?i dont think its intended for that at all.... water changes and prime keep the fish safe during a cycle. I did what pops suggested to you for most of the cycle water changes every other day until ammonai would take longer to hit .5 went to maybe every 3 or 4 days then started doing wc when ever nitrite hit .5 took about 3 weeks of that until nitrates showed up but still getting nitrites at the moment

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[TheBroc]

Fishless* not faithless lol

Yeah I'm gonna add a fish in a day or two and another after that, etc. Starting with the least expensive / more replaceable fish. Silver aro going last.

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[DDK]

Thats a bit odd that you still have nitrates but looking at nitrate its pretty much cycled. The api test kits are pretty horrible at displaying accurate information so I believe its not that high. If nitrate is at around 20-40ppm then I would say your cycled!

I personally would give it a good two days and call it done. When you stock just feed light for a bit and test the water every so often. I'm sure you wont lose any fish! Its good to see that some people do it right rather than blindly kill fish to cycle!

 

[TheBroc]

Thats a bit odd that you still have nitrates but looking at nitrate its pretty much cycled. The api test kits are pretty horrible at displaying accurate information so I believe its not that high. If nitrate is at around 20-40ppm then I would say your cycled!

I personally would give it a good two days and call it done. When you stock just feed light for a bit and test the water every so often. I'm sure you wont lose any fish! Its good to see that some people do it right rather than blindly kill fish to cycle!

yes I am trying to do it right. I really don't want to kill the silver aro cause he is awesome and just getting familiar with me and he was $70. but I have $10-40 fish as well which I don't want to lose either. going to drop a Asian RTC in tomorrow. crossing my fingers! then 2 bichirs and if all goes well the aro will have a nice big home next week.

 

[jaws7777]

Todays reading
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 2ppm
Nitrate 20 to 40 ppm


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