Two weeks, no nitrites

Ayalas · Post by **Ayalas** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:22 pm

Hello

Today marks the two week point for our 37 gallon tank, home to one puffer, Opie, three live plants (a moss ball, an amazon sword, and one I don’t know the name of).

We’ve been doing daily water changes religiously, ammonia levels have been at .25-.50 ppm. We turkey baste the waste out with each water change and add a capful of prime with each change.

Yesterday spiked to 1ppm, we did a 50% change immediately and as expected it came down to .5ppm post water change.

pH is 7.8, nitrites are 0 still, didn’t check for nitrates based on that....

Opie is acting fine, just wondering if we’re on par for a tank our size and what else we can do? We started with the Safe-Start stuff but that didn’t seem to help.

Filter is a AquaClear 70

Thanks!

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:41 am

IDK why the Safestart didn't work. Did you add it to your filter?

Ayalas · Post by **Ayalas** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:58 am

Yes poured the whole bottle into the filter.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:21 am

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:21 am

TLeaf · Post by **TLeaf** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:14 am

The water changes could be slowing the process down. If you can safely increase the temperature in the tank, that should speed things up.

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