Water parameters

[gregkarr09]

Hey guys my 50 gallon tank is cycling right now it's day 8 I was dumb and added 5 angelsfish and 8 glowlight tetra's and a BN pleco before it started to cycle, and my ammonia is about .03 or .05 ish and my nitrite just shy of 1.0 and nitrate almost 20ppm i did a water change this morning (35%) should I do another water change right now? I feel like the Nitrite is hurting 2 of my angels bad. 2 of them keep hiding and have clamped fins and shiver a little bit.

What I am doing thus far
1)Put a friends old filter cartridge behind my filter cartridge
2)using Seashem Prime to condition water
3)using Seashem Stability
4)using Aquarium salt (1 teaspoon per gallon)
5)20-30% water change everyday


Any more advice? Thanks in advance

 

[Juxtaroberto]

The salt will help with the nitrite a bit. The fish are already in there, the best you can do is use copious amounts of Prime and hope the Stability does its job.

 

[gregkarr09]

just added a tad like 1/4 of a cap of prime...hope I'm not overtreating

 

[gregkarr09]

bump

 

[gregkarr09]

bump

 

[Laticauda]

We've given you as much advice as is humanly possible to give. You have all the information already

Just use it, and monitor your water daily.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

Well you can always ask your LFS to hold onto your fishes until you cycle it.

 

[gregkarr09]

Well you can always ask your LFS to hold onto your fishes until you cycle it.

I did I asked two and the both said they dont have room...Wich is BS cause there are pleaty of tank that are empty or have a couple of community fish in them

 

[Laticauda]

I did I asked two and the both said they dont have room...Wich is BS cause there are pleaty of tank that are empty or have a couple of community fish in them

Because they can't sell your fish for $$, if they have your fish, they have a tank that they can't use. That really sucks man. How are your ammonia/nitrIte levels today since you added those filter pads?

 

[gregkarr09]

Because they can't sell your fish for $$, if they have your fish, they have a tank that they can't use. That really sucks man. How are your ammonia/nitrIte levels today since you added those filter pads?

Ok did a 13% (lol) water change, just checked the ammonia it reads .4ppm Nitrite reads 2.0ppm and Nitrates are showing up but still less then 20ppm

Ugghhh Nightmare.

3 of my angels are hiding inside of a log and the other 2 are doing just fine swimming around with fully extended fins