Recent content by djohnson1974

I've just got through a fish in cycle with lots of patience but no dramas. I'm now after a little advice on stocking. I've got 8 male guppies presently and am looking to add 2 black mollies 2 sliver movies and 8 cardinal tetras. My question is will this max out the bio load for the filter...

So cycle finally complete, had 2 readings with zero ammonia and zero nitrites. Next question is fish stocking but I guess that's for another thread. Thanks for the help guys

Looks like I'm well into phase 2 of the cycle now. Fish all still healthy. What frequency should I do water changes at now do you think?

Salt appears to be working. Nitrite levels remain at 0.25 and fish still look perfectly healthy. I appreciate your advice, I'd be a bit lost without it as there's so much info out there on the inter web!

Great, thanks for the advice. I assume the salt will no affect the development of the good bacteria in the filer?

No water changes for 3 days and latest readings (attached) look like elevated nitrItes so it looks like I'm starting phase 2 of the cycle

Many thanks for the replies folks

And these are my tap water readings taken just now

Have just taken another set of readings after 48hrs with no water change and they are still identical. (See attached).

I very much appreciate the detailed responses and the time taken to investigate my situation. The natural gravel was purchased in a 10kg bag from amazon which I thoroughly washed before adding to the tank and the river cobbles were from my own pond which I bleached and thoroughly washed prior...

I appreciate your detailed response. I only added live plants yesterday in an effort to help with the high nitrates. Initially I let my tank run with just conditioned water and natural gravel for a week. I use interpet tapsafe which is advertised as containing the right bacteria as well as...