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thanks need to get a test kit for those. tested just now and still have double zeros. My ph has elevated to nearly 8 which is concerning me, but afaik is not as worrying as elevated ammonia or nitrite. my tap water is usually 7.4 this may seem strange but my results were good before putting...

sorry late responding. yes, all water dechlorinated using tap safe. I did another 50% wc late yesterday afternoon, to try and get the .25 reading to zero. I can confirm back to double 00s tested again earlier still 00s so all good. will test again later. ph is 7.4 I don't think I have...

thanks for the help. I do temper the new water going in, to match temp. I was daily dosing around 3ml of ammonia, which raised my ppm to 4, which it was clearing to 0 in less than 24 hours. once my nitrite spike finally dropped to 0, I only had 0 when testing daily even though I was dosing...

thanks for the help. 80% water change after the earlier 50% has helped. brought nitrite down to 0.25ppm, ammonia is still 0-0.25, bit difficult to tell if it has a slight tinge of green. Ph 7.4 which is basically my tap water. guess from here I ll monitor closely and water change as necessary...

the nitrite reading is quite dark purple ammonia is 0 - 0.25 ppm prior to putting fish in readings were 0 for both ammonia and nitrites. I had seen both the ammonia spike, and nitrite spikes, and the only blip was when ph dropped. currently in the middle of 80% wc so I ll see if that affects

first off, I thought I had followed the advice on these forums quite well, so thanks so far. I have been fishless cycling for around 4 to 5 weeks, and although I had a stall, due to low ph, a 50% wc kick started it. after getting vitually zero for ammonia and nitrite, I thought it was time to...