Cycle Water Stats

[fallenhalo]

would some one let me know if these stats are on the right track for cycling tank cheers

its a juwel rio180 with a tetratec ex1200 filter i know its over filtered

stats are as follows
cycling day 15

PH - 7.8
NITRITE - 2.0
AMONIA - 0.25
NITRATE - 40

tank will be used as a comunity tank also there are a few rocks and bogwood in there all from an established tank , also live plants that seem to be thriving lol

 

[Puffdaddy]

Looks good to me. Are you doing any water changes? What are you feeding the bacteria?

 

[fallenhalo]

Looks good to me. Are you doing any water changes? What are you feeding the bacteria?

not done a water change yet and using stress zyme

 

[mark.w.jones]

Looks good to me. Are you doing any water changes? What are you feeding the bacteria?

not done a water change yet and using stress zyme

Then you are not actgually cycling your tank I'm afraid. Stress zyme does not provide anything required for bacterial growth. Do you have any fish yet? If not then you need to fishless cycle the tank with ammonia solution. Follow the add & wait method from the link in my sig.

 

[fallenhalo]

Looks good to me. Are you doing any water changes? What are you feeding the bacteria?

not done a water change yet and using stress zyme

Then you are not actgually cycling your tank I'm afraid. Stress zyme does not provide anything required for bacterial growth. Do you have any fish yet? If not then you need to fishless cycle the tank with ammonia solution. Follow the add & wait method from the link in my sig.

so even though my stats have been steady now for 3 days and are ok, i still can not put fish in there ?

 

[scorphonic]

No you cant put fish in yet. Any amount of ammonia or Nitrites are toxic for fish. The only thing that can be present in the water is nitrate, and you must keep this low through water changes when you do get fish. Best bet would be either to get some ammonia, places that sell it would include boots, hardware store.

When buying the ammonia you must ensure that its free of perfume and any other chemicals. You want to have a solution of ammonia that does not froth when you shake it. Alternatively what you can do is empty all the water from your tank, give everything a good clean using tap water, fill your tank with tap water and add a dechlorinator solution (freely available in any pet store) and then just pick a hardy fish (one that can withstand high levels of ammonia and nitrite) and use these fish as a source of ammonia (from their digestive wastes!!) to get the bacteria in your filter to grow.

I would highly recommend that you get some bacteria from an estabilished tank. Check out the donor section on this site for someone near to you who is willing to give up some filter media/bacterial sludge. I did this with my Rio 180 and i was cycled in a week from adding about 6 - 10L of the stuff to my external filter. I used the add and wait method (no fish involved). Now my tank is nearly fully stocked only after 4 days of finishing the cycle and everything is stable which means that there is enough bacteria in the filters to handle the fish waste. Because of this...get some bacteria from someone...you'll have the same success as me if you do.

 

[Castellop123]

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Cheers...

 

[fallenhalo]

Ammonia should = 0

Nitrite should = 0

And Nitrate should be as low as possible... IMO, 40ppm is quite high, but if your tap water contains that much then there is not much you can do (unless you are willing to buy an RO unit or use rainwater)...

Cheers...

sorry i didnt say and i know now its a big kinda no no but i have had fish in here ,two pretty large clown loaches about 10cm each