Two weeks, no nitrites
Posted: 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!
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!
