Newbie questions
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 3:55 am
Hello all! So I have a 55g tank that I recently had African cichlids in for about a year that I grew tired of, (mostly bc of their territorial and fast nature). Well after reading and chatting with local owners and a good friend of mine I am moving into the brackish world. My LFS has two tiny GsP's (no more than a inch) for grabs as well as a mono argentus and so I have jumped right into salting up my empty tank and preparing it for some new fish. It's been empty(of fish) for about a week now and I have been doing daily water changes attempting to rid of this random nitrate spike? I've got the specific gravity to about 1.008-1.009 which is right at where the fish store has their brackish tank. Ph is good and high, ammonia at 0, nitrites at 0, nitrates are through the roof though.. is this the end effect of the large water change(75% or so) I did once I got rid of my cichlids? Is it recycling? The crushed coral substrate has remained in the tank for a while now (7months or so) and I have thouroughly cleaned my fake plants and rocks under warm water. Does turning a freshwater tank into brackish restart a cycle? Sorry so many questions just trying to have everything ready for these GSP's as I am looking forward to raising the bar on my fishkeeping skills. Any info helps, thanks!
