What Should My Stats Be

[Nicky2]

Just done a water test of my tropical fish tank below are the results, i just want to know if they are about right?

Amonia 0 - .25
PH 8.0
Nitrate 10
Nitrite 0

 

[mark.w.jones]

Ammonia and nitrite should always be zero. Nitrate up to 50ppm ish (It does depend on your tapwater's nitrate level though). You should probably do a 20% water change to get rid of the ammonia then try and figure out why it was raised in the first place. These are most common reasons:

1. Over feeding.
2. Not cleaning tank / doing gravel vac often enough.
3. Dead fish you hadn't noticed for a while.
4. Killing off filter bacteria by forgetting dechlorinator with water change, cleaning filter sponges etc. in tapwater, forgetting to turn filter back on.