Where are you as you have 2 locations listed and I am in Portsmouth.
How much for the lot as we have just set up our tank and only have a few plants at the moment.
Thanks
Added Ammonia last night and got the same results as last night again tonight.
Tonight's reading:
pH: 7.4
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Tonight's reading:
pH: 7.4
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
I now have the Ammonia and Nitrite at 0 but the Nitrate has also dropped. Is that right?
Tonight's reading:
pH: 7.4
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 160 ppm
Nitrite: 1 ppm
So not quite back down to 0 Nitrite.
So I keep adding 2 ppm till the Ammonia and Nitrite are both 0 or do I now add it up to 4ppm?
Tonight's reading:
pH: 7.4
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 160 ppm
Nitrite: 5 ppm
Now what lol.
What results am I looking for? Do I still keep adding 2ppm of ammonia to keep the bacteria going?
He left it half filled with water (Its a Fuval 305 with the aqua lock thing).
These are the results as for the week:
Wednesdays readings were:
pH: 7.4
Ammonia: 0 (Hadn't added any at that time)
Nitrate: 20 ppm
Nitrite: 0
Added ammonia to reach 4 ppm
Thursdays readings:
pH: 7.4
Ammonia: 2 ppm...
He said it is harder to clean due to anaerobic pockets forming easier than in the gravel.
Its small round gravel (Not the normal bigger stuff).
Stated the fishless cycling with 'Cycle' and now adding ammonia. The filter was seconhand so I think that has helped too.
As of last night this what...
After talking to the guy in the shop we decided to go for small gravel and not sand.
Just finished setting it up and now waiting for the cloudy water to clear.
Me and my wife have bought a fish tank from ebay.
The tank is bigger than we expected as it was advertised as a Juwel Delta 200 and turned out to be a Juewl Delta 300 lol.
It now sitting in the corner of our room waiying for us to get everything readyto get started.
Our filter arrived today...