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The Nitrates in my tap 2 weeks ago was a lot lower though, goodness knows what Thames water is up to :rolleyes:

At the moment, as I'm cycling its usually twice a day watehr changes, however what we are finding odd is that when we add the dechlorinated water that we usually test before adding and is around 10/20 nitrates, even if we do a 90% change after 2 hours or so when we take the tests its back up to...

Ok, I just didnt expect I would be having high Nitrates and no Nitrites, so thought I may be missing something :blush: Ok, 11am and 2 hours since big water change this morning and the readings are now: Ph 8 Amm 0.0/0.25 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 40 The dechlorinated water before adding to tank was...

Morning. Fistly my tap water for today is as follows: Ph 7.6 Ph high 7.8 (until yesterday it was always around the 8.0/8.2 mark) Nitrite 0 Am 0.25 Nitrate 40 Once we add the seachem it brings it down the tap water to around 10/20, however over the last few days from around the 28th June the...

Exactly :good:

Thanks for all the advice. Nitrate in my tap is between 5 & 10. Only reason I mentioned Fluval 3 was becasue I saw it going cheap :hey: PLUS I intend to get a bigger tank at some stage, but I suppose I could always still just buy the filter and keep it to one side until I am ready to use it...

Hi, I currently have a stingray which I really cant stand the sight of, I am in the middle of fish in cycling and managed to get some mature media which I think has helped with the process however I cant seem to get the Nitrates below 40 (everything else at 0) :sad: I was thinking of buying...

With all this cycle stuff we are trying to get our heads round we have no intentions of overcrowding the tank anytime soon :blush:

Was planning on doing fishless, but did not get round to adding ammonia (had tank filled with useless nutrafin cycle stuff) when he sprung up so hoping with these mature pads it will all be done sooner rather than later

Whilst it wouldnt have been my choice it's here now so I just have to work with it and try and make things as comfy as I can, me and sis had arguement and all the rest of it and she reckons she couldnt take it back, but in all that time fish was just swimming around in jug and considering I have...

Ok, so we now we have/ are stuck with this fish in the tank I want to speed up the cycling so he/she doesn't have to suffer for too long whilst cycling. Someone with a mature tank has kindly offered up some of their filter pads and while I am sure they will be able to tell me what to do with it...

Thanks folks

im using nutrafin aquaplus at the mo. Also as i am now stuck with a fish so need to do a fish in cycle, can i just do the change between products on the next water change or does it need to be introduced in slowly somehow??

Hi, I was told toxivec as well as seachem is a good dechlorinator, only reason I am thinking of toxivec is that I have a credit note from LFS and thats the only one other than some other dodgy looking ones they sell thanks

Ok, this fishy business gets even better, thanks to my sister!! Right today we were going to start our cycling with stats of TAP WATER: PH normal - 7.6 PH high - 7.8 Ammonia - hubby said it looked between 0 and 0.25 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate hubby said it looked between 10 and 20 May I stress all...