Recent content by JSmith14

Ok so 10 days in no changes at all, maybe a slight drop in ammonia. It is right around 2 ppm. No nitrites or nitrates at all on my api test kit. Ph is right at 7, Gh is 180 ppm, Kh is around 100 ppm. Temperature of the tank is at 80. Not sure where to go from here, said to ask for help if no...

I never really thought about that as a driving factor of what fish I could get. Thanks for helping me out with that. I have seen references to seriously fish and have started checking that out to see what would be a good match for the community tank I want to set up.

So I called my water company and they sent me their report from last year. The hardness is 128 ppm, and the ph is listed at 7.8. I have tested it though and I show it just below 7 pretty much every time. Not sure if I should be looking at any other parameters.

Thanks everyone for the help, I did a full water change and added the pure ammonia. It seems to be lower than 10%, maybe closer to 5. I added 3 ml and am somewhere between 2 and 3 ppm, which I figured was good enough given where I was at!

Ok, got a jug of pure ammonia at Kroger, headed to drain the tank now. I looked at the back and it just says ammonium hydroxide, so I will assume the 10% as mentioned earlier. Thanks!

No ace, but there are hardware stores around so I should be able to get it. How much of that would I add? I recall the calculator from the instructions on here listed as % of ammonia in the solution. It is default to 9%, do I change that to 100% in the calculator if I get the pure ammonia like...

So I can do a total water change if that is the best approach, but I’m at a loss for how much for Dr Tim’s should I add? I guess I could just do what the bottle says and go for 2 ppm, I just wanted to try and follow the 3 ppm approach on here. Clearly my math was wrong.

I just started official cycle, on a 20 gallon Using Dr. Tim’s, and no bacteria. I read through the instructions on the form and it all seem to make sense but the doctor Tim’s dosage recommended 4 drops per gallon to get to 2 ppm. I just assume to get to 3 ppm I would do six drops per gallon, I...

Hello everyone, my name is Justin and I live in West Virginia. I am Picking up the hobby again After being out of college for about 20 years. The last time I had a fish tank was in my parents house in high school. I recently bought and set up a 20 gallon tall, and just started a fishless cycle...