Water Tested Today

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John,

Let me make sure you are not misunderstanding (or I'm not!) my post. I was talking about -after- the tank is cycled and what people who had ammonia in their tap water would do about their weekly maintenance. I was speaking in general and this morning I can't even remember whether you had some ammonia or some nitrate in your tap water, lol! (which is it?)

If you are still in a Fish-In Cycle then the amount of water you change and how often you do it must be dictated by your test results. If you came home after many hours and found that one of the toxins (ammonia or nitrite) had gone over 0.25ppm then you'd know to make your water change bigger or perhaps do an extra water change if you were home to do it during a similar time period. You have to just figure it out by trial and error but of course for the safety of the fish you want to try and err to the side of fewer toxins for the fish.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[Fantail_John]

John,

Let me make sure you are not misunderstanding (or I'm not!) my post. I was talking about -after- the tank is cycled and what people who had ammonia in their tap water would do about their weekly maintenance. I was speaking in general and this morning I can't even remember whether you had some ammonia or some nitrate in your tap water, lol! (which is it?)

If you are still in a Fish-In Cycle then the amount of water you change and how often you do it must be dictated by your test results. If you came home after many hours and found that one of the toxins (ammonia or nitrite) had gone over 0.25ppm then you'd know to make your water change bigger or perhaps do an extra water change if you were home to do it during a similar time period. You have to just figure it out by trial and error but of course for the safety of the fish you want to try and err to the side of fewer toxins for the fish.

~~waterdrop~~

Thank's for you reply

Here are my tap water test results
Ammonia - 0.25ppm? sometimes it looks more yellow them light green on test so not sure

Nitrite - 0ppm

Nitrate - 5.0ppm

So if the tank water is tested at 0.25? as each time i test it reads 0.25 or under as i can't tell as sometime it haft way yellow and the light green mark. you would do a water change at what % I have been doing 50 % water changes?

Thank's
John

 

[Fantail_John]

These are my water ammonia test, can anyone work out what number they are?

1st photo ammonia tap water test

2nd photo ammonia tap water test

John