Water test seems promising but...

i dosed and had about 3ppm of ammonia and 1ppm or more of nitrites. Today i tested again and i have 0 ammonia but i have a slight amount of nitrites. like about .25
this is promising yes? perhaps i tested during a transition to nitrates or something?

 

You will see a spike in nitrites before you see nitrates. Did you test for nitrates too just to see if you had any?
Just make sure to keep ammonia dosed so the bacteria doesn’t die off before you get fish added.

 

You will see a spike in nitrites before you see nitrates. Did you test for nitrates too just to see if you had any?
Just make sure to keep ammonia dosed so the bacteria doesn’t die off before you get fish added.

i already had a spike in nitrites. the test i did went down from 1-2ppm nitrites. but i just did another test just now actually and the nitrites are gone ive had nitrates for a while doing a fishless cycle . i wonder if i tested during a transition period between ammonia and nitrates, right now i have the two nitrite tests next to eachother one like a clear purple and finally i get a blue from the test just now. so i guess i can just water change whipe out my nitrates and add fish now?

 

Yah as long as your nitrates are stable and you don’t have ammonia/nitrites I’d say you are ready to go!

 

Yah as long as your nitrates are stable and you don’t have ammonia/nitrites I’d say you are ready to go!

sweet. im doing that now. after one 70% change i still had high nitrates, doing another hopefully not another. thanks for your help

 

Sounds good, if you struggle with high nitrates I suggest live plants Mine stay pretty much at 0 with a full tank of fish.
I would be careful doing too many WCs though. What are your nitrates after the 70%?

 

Sounds good, if you struggle with high nitrates I suggest live plants Mine stay pretty much at 0 with a full tank of fish.
I would be careful doing too many WCs though. What are your nitrates after the 70%?

i have a amazon sword, dwarf sag, and dwarf baby tears i planted a few days ago. im not all that confident and keeping my plants alive. but thats for one of my other active threads

my nitrates were red after like between 40,80 since i was doing fishless i ignored it. i used quite a bit of dr tims to get this cycle going so . lots of nitrate transfer i guess.

i know its not my water because before my other tank leaked nitrates were fine

 

Sounds good, if you struggle with high nitrates I suggest live plants Mine stay pretty much at 0 with a full tank of fish.
I would be careful doing too many WCs though. What are your nitrates after the 70%?

i just remember i have potting soil substrate with almost an inch of sand substrate cap and ive acidentally kicked up some soil at times. maybe thats the reason? if so i hope im not just out of luck with this tank