Tuesday Was The Big Day

[Jeff Lange]

Well, Tuesday was the big day. Tank has been cycled for 5 days or so and was just adding 4 ppm ammonia each day to make sure.
After almost 1 1/2 months cycling 65 gallon and adding 2ed pump Rena XP3 last Thursday for biological as my Magnum 350 would more than likely not provide me with addiquate biological filtration. Finally moved my fish to the new 65 gallon
90 % water change Tuesday to get Nitrate down to 10-20 ppm. orange on my api test kit.
Now I have 2 pumps in there including the new XP3 that I added last Wed-Thurs and the magnum 350 going tandum.
Fish seem happy with the change.
All readings were normal and within range yesterday. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10-20 Ph- 7.4-7.6
Today the Nitrate readings were a bit higher at about 40ppm.
Is this common? I did a 20% water change only and will re-test tonight
All other readings were the same as Wednesdays. Fish seem happy with the much bigger room. Much more playfull.
Also added 4 coreycats to go with my 2 albino's Tuesday as I took the forums request to have min 6-8 ( 6 now )
Just a little concerned with the Nitrate level so need advice on what to watch for and what to do if it goes over 40ppm ?

3 - Med Large Angels
2- Clown Loaches
6- Coreydovas

 

[Miss Wiggle]

excellent, glad it went well.

quite common to get some increase in nitrate just after shifting tanks around, basically you stir up a load of muck which creates excess ammonia which then goes through the system to become nitrate. it's basically a micro mini cycle. if you'd tested ammonia immediatley after the transfer you'd have probably got a small reading, just a little blip though. cos it's now all been converted to nitrate and the ammonia is down to 0 it's all gone smoothly.

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, great news Jeff, enjoyed reading it.

Your weekly water changes will handle the Nitrate (and all the other trace bad stuff we never measure!) just fine, better to enjoy your fish in their new bigger surroundings and not worry!

~~waterdrop~~

 

[OldMan47]

Waterdrop and Ms Wiggle are right in line with my thoughts too. The nitrate will always rise in your tank because its the end of the line in an aquarium. It is one of the reasons we do weekly water changes, to get the nitrates back down and not let them rise out of control. In a natural environment, plants and other biological processes will remove the nitrates but not in our little closed systems. As long as nitrites and ammonia stay under control, don't fret too much about the nitrates.

 

[stormy78]

Congrats on getting there