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ahh well ill leave the light off from now on then! although its only a weak 5w light anyway... so how will a higher temp help things? also i have the option of having air pump into the water with my filter, will this help any or does it not make a difference?

it is a liquid api master test kit,just the tests for the first few days where done by strips whilst i had to wait for the kit to arrive. but i will bump the temp up now, i also added some tetra safe start if this means anything. the filter im using is an interpet pf1 and had been used in my...

ok so ive been fishless cycling my 20 litre (5gl?) for over a week now, but only added actual ammonia about 5 days ago. anyway i think things are going well? my ammonia levels are dropping at i think a good rate, and nitrite is on the rise now, nitrate seems to be level but this will go up once...

Ok so i found and added some household ammonia this afternoon, and literally added about 3ml and now its gone through the roof like up towards 8, gonna continue having to use strips to test everything else as the master kit i ordered has yet to turn up, but what do i do for now? leave it? or is...

ive just ordererd an api master test kit on ebay so need to wait for that to arrive.. i havent yet added any ammonia but i have added some fish food... and i am planning on adding some safe start tommorow, will keep adding a bit of food daily and see how things go. in the meantime tho i do have...

ahh well that does clear things up , thanks. well i have just cleaned out my tank again and started from scratch....(i realised the gravel was absolutley filthy so thought best to start again...) i now have my filter running, just about to start the heater set to 26, i have treated with...

So ive just been to my lfs and asked for his advice... but thought id get a second opinion, im currently in the process of starting up a new tank (i say new...its all been used before (for a goldfish)but just about to clean all the gravel, get some clean water and start from scratch with a...

also one more thing, if i use fish food to cycle my tank, how much should i be adding? i would add actual ammonia but i dont think its easy available where i live and not sure what i could use.

just a quick one as im currently cycling a tank myself, when will it be ready? when the readings for ammonia and nitrite drops to zero? or have a got that wrong?

I havent been feeding the tank with fish food or anything at all until yesterday, and the filter i dont think has been used for a while but the filters where a bit dirty, so would it be worth me getting clean filter sponges now then? I think ill ask if hes got any rocks or anything he can give...

ill have a look, the ammonia kit is a liquid one btw. and the flakes where added after the ammonia test. but thanks, i shall give that a read!

Im using API 5 in one test strips and api ammonia testing kit. oh and ive also added some tetra aquasafe to the water. stats are PH around 7.5, nitrite and nitrate 0, GH was sky high at 180 but i dont know what the gh needs to be tbh. and ammonia seems to be around 0.25mg/l but i fail to see...

Hi guys, ok so ill try and explain this as best i can without talking to much crap... i have a 20 litre tank (small i know...) and im looking to start it up again with a few small tropicals.. im hopefully going to get some cardinal tetra's or something similar. now i originally set the tank up...