Water testing

by **splif** » Thu May 29, 2008 6:23 am

The Nitrite are between 2-5

by **spongebob4460** » Thu May 29, 2008 7:46 am

and your nitrAtes?

by **splif** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:46 am

Nitrates are around 10. Somewhere between 10-20 but not above 20.

On a side not, I was kinda curious if myabe my tap water had something to do with it. So I tested it for nitrites, it came up with ~.50 ppm. Is that common?

by **splif** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:40 am

Ok so I did a water test again after a couple days, results:

Ph: 8-8.2
Amonia : 0
Nitrates : 10
Nitrites : 5+

I'm starting to get confused, I don't know whats going on. All the fish seem to be fine. Their colors have even brightened up since I added them to my tank. Everything seems to be happy-go-lucky. I guess if I added my 3-5 yellow labs that they would be under high stress from the high nitrites?

by **spongebob4460** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:03 am

I wouldn't add the fish until ure nitrites lower.. and this may take many water changes.

by **a1k8t31524** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:42 pm

splif in your picture you had your food sitting on top of your lights, not to get off subject but from everything that i have read, keeping the food on top of the lights is bad because of the heat that is produced, basically takes all of the nutrients out of the food.
And as far as your cycle goes, mine went into like turbo light speed when i started adding plants and wood...ammo went from extreamly toxic to nil overnight

by **SpliF5873** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:26 am

Just an update...
tested water tonight and it is as follows

Nitrate: 10
Nitrite : 0
Amonia : 0
PH 8.2-8.3

will be adding my fish soon, got the black background on, look sexy btw, and I'll post some new pics soon.

Thanks again for everyones help it was, and still is, greatly appreciated.

Water testing

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Water testing

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