Ok. Maybe I should add this onto my other post about needing to work on my timing. Anyway I moved my Red-tail shark over to the ten gal and so far he is more active and happier then he was in his old tank (no surpirse). I moved him over on Aug 10 and have been doing religious water changes and babying him immensely. Today I finally gave into temptation and did a test.
Now I know the begining of a cycle is supposed to be nutz, and that you shouldn't test in the frist week b/c the results will drive you up the wall. But I was curious to see how everything was going.
I only checked for amonnia and Nitrites b/c they're the ones that I'm worried about. Usually I check pH after ammonia b/c you need both to read the chart to tell you were your tank sits either in good or bad zone.
the results:
NH4 = 0
N02 = off the charts.
The N02 I expected b/c I hadn't done a water change yet but is the ammonia for real? I thought it was supposed to peak before Nitrites. Now I haven't tested before this so it could have happened but... in four days? Is this just a strange mis-test or what?
