hello peeps,
New to all this so please bear with me. Looking to get a water test kit but getting conflicting advice from different people. some friends who have fish say as i only got a small starter tank, 40cmx25cmx25cm, get the litmus paper test kits. But others including members on here say get the liquid test kit. I have a friend that breeds Guppies and she uses the litmus paper test kit and says they are fine. On another matter, i done what, by reading alot on here, most new people done is set up the tank and after a few days of adding the chemicals, Nutrafin Cycle, Tetra Aqua Safe and Ammonia Detoxifier, thought of starting to add fish. But before i added the fish my friend bought round 5 Guppies that she had bred herself and some 'poo water'. (normal fish tank water with a little fish waste in). A couple of days later got 3 Neons, 2 Tiger Barbs, 2 Gold Neon Barbs. One Neon has died because the Tiger Barms kept fighting with it. apart from that all seems to be ok, fish swimming happily around and getting on, no more fighting going on, feeding good and colour of the fish is great still and water is very clear, also doing 50% water changes every week. So when im reading about fish in cycle, does this mean ive been doing this without knowing it?? Hence the reason of thinking to go and buy a test kit. Guppies have been in the tank for 3 weeks and the other fish for 2 weeks and as i said all seem to be great.Any help and advice is as always very welcome.
New to all this so please bear with me. Looking to get a water test kit but getting conflicting advice from different people. some friends who have fish say as i only got a small starter tank, 40cmx25cmx25cm, get the litmus paper test kits. But others including members on here say get the liquid test kit. I have a friend that breeds Guppies and she uses the litmus paper test kit and says they are fine. On another matter, i done what, by reading alot on here, most new people done is set up the tank and after a few days of adding the chemicals, Nutrafin Cycle, Tetra Aqua Safe and Ammonia Detoxifier, thought of starting to add fish. But before i added the fish my friend bought round 5 Guppies that she had bred herself and some 'poo water'. (normal fish tank water with a little fish waste in). A couple of days later got 3 Neons, 2 Tiger Barbs, 2 Gold Neon Barbs. One Neon has died because the Tiger Barms kept fighting with it. apart from that all seems to be ok, fish swimming happily around and getting on, no more fighting going on, feeding good and colour of the fish is great still and water is very clear, also doing 50% water changes every week. So when im reading about fish in cycle, does this mean ive been doing this without knowing it?? Hence the reason of thinking to go and buy a test kit. Guppies have been in the tank for 3 weeks and the other fish for 2 weeks and as i said all seem to be great.Any help and advice is as always very welcome.
) And most lfs' sell the restock for the kit which includes instructions test tubes and pretty much all you will need and they last ages. Strongly recommend to anyone. 
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