My Tank's Blog

[maurizio]

Hello all,
I'm not sure it's gonna last, but...

The original idea was to collect pictures of my tank in development for my future use, in order to learn from possible mistakes (I'm a beginner), then I said - why not sharing this with people? The more expert ones can give help, and the others might learn something... And hopefully one day I'll start posting nice shots of my fishes...

http/maustank.blogspot.com/

Awaiting comments/help/...!

 

[maurizio]

OK, a bit of help now: 14 days into cycle, ammonia+ammonium didn't move a bit from the (extrapolated! The chart ends at 3) value of about 5-6 mg/l set at the beginning with ammonium hydroxide (added 9.4 ml for 150 l of water). I haven't bothered measuring the nitrites until now, finally did today, read about 2 mg/l, meaning yes, something is starting. Tap water had read about 0 mg/l in NO2 when I set up the tank.

pH has oscillated a bit since start-up, from 7.4 to 8.

So, why isn't ammonia decreasing,if I'm getting NO2 now??

Should I just ignore the thing, and keep waiting?

Should I get the plants tomorrow, I'll add a pic of the (LIGHTLY) planted tank.

 

[maurizio]

Deep into cycle now, nitrites steadily decreasing, nitrates in the 100s.

Got the plants yesterday, so here is how it's going to look like.

More pics in my (log!