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Could it be the TSS? Creating some initial nitrate

well i refilled dechlorinated added an entire bottle of TSS and 5 3/4 inch tiger barbs been running 4 days now feeding every three days EVERYTHING is zero exept NITRATE! it's about 5.0PMM really?? what do we make of this now??

you need an ammonia and/or nitrite reading above 0 to cycle an aquarium so a 75% water change every time you do makes no sense

going to restart it with 0 ammonia recheck everything and start again rinse off everything before re filling and see what happens ughhh

ammonia no nitrite no nitrate at all no conversion of any kind no apparent reason behind it either

if i had hair on my head, i'd be pulling it out now gonna give it another week and then drain it and start again next week would make it 5.5 weeks long enough to see some kind of ammonia conversion there has been nothing but ammonia SMH

changed 40% of the water adjusted PH ammonia is now 2.0 PPM dechlorinated water lets see what happens

Water change and go with a fish in cycle or just stay the course??

tomorrow will be a month no conversion of any kind 2-3ppm ammonia nitrite 0 nitrate 0 temp 74 (gonna be a fancy double tailed goldfish tank) kh and gh are acceptable ph is a bit high at 7.8 should just drain the darn thing until i get rid of the ammonia and throw a few dominos in...

thanks for the reply gh and kh are within normal range temp is 76-78 degrees and i have an air pump with and 18" bubble wall for surface agitation as well as the wet dry drip plays moving the water through it so the O2 is all good source water is NYC tap water that's being dechlorinated...

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hey all far from a newbie here but new to the forum :yahoo: I've been having a frustrating issue with my newly set up aquarium and with 20+ years in the hobby i'm looking to bend someone else's ear on here to get some input first a bit of info about the tank: 72 gallon bow from (reef...