Hi,
We had our new fish tank since the beginning of january, and transferred some goldfish to it immediately. As we did not know much about fishkeeping, they all died and now having found your site, and read about cycling, I think I have the reason as to why they all died.
Anyway. This was an ideal opportunity to go tropical.
The tank was setup again about 2 weeks ago, with quite a lot of plants too this time. Our LFS said it would be ok to stock the tank up (again, if I'd found this site before, I wouldn't have!!).
We have 4 neon tetras. 5 black tetras. 2 rosy tetras and 2 rainbow praecox (although, this species needs to be confirmed). The tank is a 63litre tank.
Since buying the fish, and then reading this site, I have been doing 25% water changes every 3 days for the past week, and today I did a 50% water change.
As I got a water test kit yesterday, I have been able to test the quality.
pH is at 7.2
Ammonia 0.25ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 10ppm
What is an acceptable level of ammonia? Should this be 0 with no tolerance? I've assumed that my filter media has established itself in the previous setup (unfortunately whilst killing all the goldfish).
I plan to do a 25% water change every day for the next week or so, is this advisable? Or are my ammonia levels ok?
Thanks for any help in advance.
We had our new fish tank since the beginning of january, and transferred some goldfish to it immediately. As we did not know much about fishkeeping, they all died and now having found your site, and read about cycling, I think I have the reason as to why they all died.
Anyway. This was an ideal opportunity to go tropical.
The tank was setup again about 2 weeks ago, with quite a lot of plants too this time. Our LFS said it would be ok to stock the tank up (again, if I'd found this site before, I wouldn't have!!).
We have 4 neon tetras. 5 black tetras. 2 rosy tetras and 2 rainbow praecox (although, this species needs to be confirmed). The tank is a 63litre tank.
Since buying the fish, and then reading this site, I have been doing 25% water changes every 3 days for the past week, and today I did a 50% water change.
As I got a water test kit yesterday, I have been able to test the quality.
pH is at 7.2
Ammonia 0.25ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 10ppm
What is an acceptable level of ammonia? Should this be 0 with no tolerance? I've assumed that my filter media has established itself in the previous setup (unfortunately whilst killing all the goldfish).
I plan to do a 25% water change every day for the next week or so, is this advisable? Or are my ammonia levels ok?
Thanks for any help in advance.