Recent content by ggdd

Yes I would be more worried if the ammonia levels went through the roof. I think all in all its progressing quite nicely. I also went down to our lfs and he said that the tank is getting close to being cycled and not to worry. Maybe time to start thinking about the short list for the first fish...

No water changes yet. I thought about the plants but the plants have been there since I started cycling the tank. Now that I think of it I did add some some seachem flourish plant supplement yesterday. I wonder if that had an effect??

I am at the end of the third week of cycling a planted 20 gallon tank (using the shrimp method) and have been taking water sample tests every day. Yesterday my ammonia was around 0-0.25 (after peaking at 5 1 1/2 weeks ago) and nitrites were at 2. Nitrates were high at > 100. Today I measured...

I have put the other half of the prawn in tonight so it will take a day or two to kick in. The ammonia really dropped quickly in the last two days (3.0->0.5) so caught me a bit by surprise. I did not think it would work so fast!! Thanks for the suggestions though...

Setting up my first tank (90 liter AR620 bought second hand) for my 5 year old daughter. Very hard to find clear ammonia in Aus so decided to try the green prawn approach. 2 Weeks on, the Ammonia spiked at 5 ish 6 days ago and today it is at 0.1 ish. Nitrite peaked yesterday at 3.5 and today it...