Hello, these are my api masterkit liquid results from this morning:
Amonia 0 (more or less)
Nitrite 0 (completely blue, no purple at all)
Nitrate 40-80ppm
This was about an hour or so after a 30% water change. The same tests i did yesterday were exactly the same, only the nitrates were a lot darker, around 80ppm+ (i'm now doing 30% daily changes to get this down to under 20).
*The nitrate test comes up a slightly different shade of blue (blue is supposedly 0). I found a thread somewhere else that if it's more turqoise and the drops turn purple instantly when dropped or something similar, then this means the nitrates are off the chart. I compared the blue to a test done on my smaller dummy tank, and there definitely was a difference in shade of blue. I'm confident this won't be the case however, as the tank has been going (from everything completely new) for maybe 8-10weeks now, and i have an eheim EC filter for a 15gal tank, so i'm confident the cycling has finished.
I've cleaned the pipes from the EC once the other day as they looked quite 'gungy' and the actual filter media itself was cleaned once with water from the tank. I only cleaned these because the flow rate has dropped a lot, and i've since rearrange the piping slightly to help.
Am i to assume that the tank has finished cycling and i should just be keeping an eye on the nitrates? It seems extremely that's all!
The tank is stocked with fish, rocks, live plants and live bogwood.
Your thought's would be welcome!
Amonia 0 (more or less)
Nitrite 0 (completely blue, no purple at all)
Nitrate 40-80ppm
This was about an hour or so after a 30% water change. The same tests i did yesterday were exactly the same, only the nitrates were a lot darker, around 80ppm+ (i'm now doing 30% daily changes to get this down to under 20).
*The nitrate test comes up a slightly different shade of blue (blue is supposedly 0). I found a thread somewhere else that if it's more turqoise and the drops turn purple instantly when dropped or something similar, then this means the nitrates are off the chart. I compared the blue to a test done on my smaller dummy tank, and there definitely was a difference in shade of blue. I'm confident this won't be the case however, as the tank has been going (from everything completely new) for maybe 8-10weeks now, and i have an eheim EC filter for a 15gal tank, so i'm confident the cycling has finished.
I've cleaned the pipes from the EC once the other day as they looked quite 'gungy' and the actual filter media itself was cleaned once with water from the tank. I only cleaned these because the flow rate has dropped a lot, and i've since rearrange the piping slightly to help.
Am i to assume that the tank has finished cycling and i should just be keeping an eye on the nitrates? It seems extremely that's all!
The tank is stocked with fish, rocks, live plants and live bogwood.
Your thought's would be welcome!
