65 gallon cycle help

[Fishyone2]

Possibly Dr Tim thought if people added stuff they may not remove it by a big water change at the end. Yes, doing a water change every time pH drops is one way of dealing with it, but that would mean a lot of large water changes with a 65 gallon tank. Adding baking soda not only increases pH it adds inorganic carbon which is what the bacteria need.

Check the Jack Dempsey's GH range on Seriously Fish (it's down at the moment so I can't check). They'll give it either ppm or dH (see post #38 for yuor values)

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I agree, it's not a good idea taking media from a newly cycled tank. it takes around 6 months for a tank to mature, that's when it's safe to donate media.

Okay I'll check that out. I want a peaceful community tank something interesting to watch. I'll continue my test tomorrow for ammonia and if it's 0 I'll wait till Saturday to re check to make sure it's still at 0 and then ill add the 120 drops and test everyday (ammonia +nitrite) and once ammonia is .25ppm and nitrite 1ppm and below. dose the 360 drops and check the next day and hope they both are 0 lol

 

[MaloK]

The nitrate tester is only useful for ball park measurements. It's the least accurate of our testers. My younger son used to work for a water testing company and he was highly amused at our home nitrate tester.

Yeah, Like The difference in color on the chart between 40 and 80 ppm of the API test, looks exactly the same to me, loll.