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-_- Hi everyone, i have just had my water tested again at the LFS and these were the following Ammonia 0 Nitrites 5ppm Nitrates 70ppm i am only in day 12 of cycling my tank and the LFS suggests a 50% water change now.The only thing added to the tank was biozime. Does anyone agree with the...

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thanks for the advice on the medication, from the sounds of things we will give it a miss. as far as water temps, we live in the tropics (northern australia) so our water temps are 80f constantly this time of year. In fact it would be higher if we didn't have the air con running all day. Even...

once the tank was cycled and the fish removed, we were going to med the tank for 24hrs and put carbon in the filter to remove the meds before putting tropical fish in.The LFS recommend goldfish to use. So any other ideas as why i have nitrate readings already???

Thanks for replying. There was no nitrate readings a couple of days ago so that rules out nitrate being in the tap water and the nitrites were closer to 1ppm than 5ppm. I did add some biozime at the start but only a small amount, but wasn't confident it would work. I am cycling the tank with 6...

Hello, I am in the process of cycling my 200litre tank and am not sure what to do next. Here is what I've done so far. Day 1 added 3 fish Day 4 realised 3 wasn't enough so added 3 more Day 6 detected ammonia(slight trace) Day 8 higher ammonia levels Day 10 Ammonia levels are zero, nitrite...