Recent content by southcity

Well today marks 10 weeks since I first set up this tank. I made a decision a couple of weeks ago that at 10 weeks if I was not seeing double 0's I would just empty the tank out and come to the conclusion that fish just aren't for me. I did my water readings a hour ago and nitrite is still off...

100% water change done earlier today, I didn't have time for water readings after, had to get to work, but I added enough ammonia when the water change was done to bring the ammonia up to about 4ppm. Now 12hrs later I tested for ammonia, it was 0, Nitrate is about 20-40, Nitrite was off the...

pH is 8 temp is 84 The filter seems to be making as much action on the water surface as always, doesn't seem to be any problem with a bunged up filter, should I be cleaning it? Ceramic rings

Today marks 8 weeks and 3 days since the initial dose of ammonia in my new tank. Things were going well for about 2 weeks, my ammonia was dropping from 5ppm to 0 in 12 hours, for those 14 days, then suddenly 2 weeks ago it started taking 24 hours to drop each time, now today on the 24 hour mark...

Well for quite a few days (8) the ammonia was going from 4ppm to 0 in 12hrs or less. Now as of 2 days ago it suddenly is taking 24hrs to get back to 0. Is this common? Not really wanting to go backwards

Funny you should mention the Nirtite sticking. Mine was off the charts for days then suddenly in 12hrs dropped to about .25ppm, two days later it is remaining at about .05ppm. Not a worry for me, I will just have no choice but to wait it out and let it get to 0 before I consider myself in my...

Yes, working towards that finally. Not at 0 yet but darn close to it.

I am getting excited, today my nitrites are dropping after my last dose of ammonia 12hrs ago. Nitrites down to .25ppm yay me!!!! getting there, maybe only a couple of weeks to go now!

Oh yes, I had it at 5ppm right from day 1,(actaully this tank was set up about 2wks prior with 5ppm ammonia, but I didn't start recording on here until I switched the charcoal to ceramic rings) it sat there doing absolutely nothing for the first few weeks, added some fish flakes a couple of...

But it's been 5 weeks and 3 days since I set this tank up. But not to worry, I won't be adding anything in there until posters here tell me it's a go!

Chewing through ammonia now every 12hrs, just waiting for Nitrite to fall!!!!!

only 24hrs for ammonia to drop to 0ppm this time, I will start checking every 12hrs now.

Measured the ammonia today and it was 0ppm. Finally I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. So it took 5 days to drop to zero after adding last time. I re-dosed it back up right away and will check daily now for levels to drop again.

I am hoping these reading today are good news, please let me know I added some fish food the other day as suggested by a previous poster. Todays readings Ammonia 4ppm PH 8 Nitate 0 perhaps 1.ppm Nitrite 5+, off the chart I would say, slight movement a couple of days ago in this and now its...

Willing to try anything at this point, in went some fish flakes! :good: