Nitrate ?

[DDK]

Disregard what I said.. thats pretty clear and theres a decent amount of nitrite lol. I would do a 50% water change and redose with some stability.

 

[lp85253]

you definitly have nitrite on that reading

 

[pops]

see the nitrite, but you have nitrate also, i would not do a water change, nitrates not that high. let the bacteria do its job. long as no fish in.

 

[DDK]

see the nitrite, but you have nitrate also, i would not do a water change, nitrates not that high. let the bacteria do its job. long as no fish in.

It is stocked

 

[pops]

water change and dose with prime/safe. I would do a fin level and keep that up every other day till nitrites hold steady at 0. lot of work i know, BTDT

 

[ragin_cajun]

so I just did my tests today on the 135. .25 ammonia 0 nitrites and 5 nitrates. am I cycled?

So...do you have nitrIte or not? If you have 0 nitrite, and nitrate, you're cycled. I wouldn't add an AROWANA to a fresh tank, or a ray. But a few fish would be ok. I just cycled a tank 6-8 months back, I didn't kill any fish. Let's all try to relax.


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[pops]

posted test says he does, hence the every other day water changed dose with prime until nitrite come up 0. prime handles up to 2ppm , can be dosed up to 5 times regular dose but see no reason to do that. will not effect the cycle finishing.

 

[jaws7777]

Today was 0/.5/10


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[lp85253]

Water change & check tomorrow

 

[alexanian]

Well I don't know if I'm wrong about this but I was under the impression that during cycling u shouldn't change water. I mean that u would want ur ammonia to spike at first for the bacteria to bloom to a point where it's able to handle that kind of load, same with the nitrite. So basically the first time u should change water in the tank u cycle is when u get a reading of 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and over 40 nitrate. When u change water before that point ur just making it last longer.