Recent content by bretty1984

here we go!    

Hello! Just to give another update, yesterday I got to the stage where I had two zero readings one after the other, so I now have a nice Betta in the tank who has been in there for 24 hours and is looking pretty happy!   It has been three weeks of patience and lots of help from this site, and I...

I went in to Maidenhead Aquatics and asked for some established media and they gave me a bag full for nothing. Not sure how much it has sped up my cycle but I am not far off being able to add fish.

Hi there, I am hopefully nearing the end of my fishless cycle so I am beginning to think about what fish I can have. My tank is only a 23 litre tank so obviously I could not add lots but I would like a little selection of fish to spice things up a bit!   My only weakness is not knowing what fish...

Just to give a short update on this. It seems as though my nitrites are dropping. It has been off the chart for some while but yesterday I took a reading and the purple test solution was a lot lighter, so much lighter that I would have said it was between 0.25 and 1.0ppm, leaning more towards...

I have just taken an ammonia and nitrite reading.the ammonia is exactly the same whilst the nitrite looks the same but it may have dropped ever so slightly, but not really enough to say that it definitely has.

that is very re-assuring to know.

I will give the water a test tomorrow evening around 6pm as I am back in work tomorrow and out of the house from 5:40am.

Just to give more info I also did a nitrate reading and got a reading of 20ppm. Not sure if that is relevant at all?

Well even though it isn't quite 12 hours, I have just taken a reading and the ammonia is still the same, around 0.25ppm and the nitrite has not dropped at all from the looks of things as the colour of the test solution is nowhere near the colours on the chart.   I am a little stumped at the moment!

I have done this now, what I have noticed is that instantly the water does not look so clear. Is this normal?i have so much media left over from the Lfs what should I do with it?? What I did was remove the carbon, leave the biomax in but put lots of the Lfs media in there. I hope I haven't...

I shall do that right now. Thanks

Sorry to keep clarifying things. Right so I should remove the carbon and the biomax and leave the sponge and then fill the rest of the space up with the media that the lfs gave me? It seems as though it is plastic??

They gave me stuff that was very similar to this. http://fishkeeper.co.uk/site/product/aquamanta-biopro-filter-media-42g They gave me around two handfuls of it!

This media has been in my tank for about 6 hours now. I'm keen to get this into the filter if it will work quicker. Have I left it to long?