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Originally Posted by Lotus  The tank is re-cycling, but hopefully it will be shorter this time. Sometimes it's only a few days, but it could be longer. The Ammo-Lock will help to try to keep the ammonia in its less poisonous form, so your fish don't suffer.
If you have really soft water, you might want to consider using a little carbonate-based buffer (not a phosphate-based one). You can either use baking soda when you do a water change, or put some crushed coral in a media bag in the filter. Both will increase your carbonate hardness (KH) to help keep the pH stable. There are also commercial products available. I believe Seachem's Alkaline Buffer would be a good choice. |
I'm gonna go to the LFS and pick it up with some more ammo-lock. I took out 60% of the water and replaced it with new water.
Here are the specs today:
temp:75
ph:6.4
ammonia: 4.0 down from off the chart
nitrite:.50
nitrate: 0 but I'm gonna go take some gravel from an established tank today to speed up the process, I'm also gonna get another hang on filter that's more powerful too...thanks so much for all the insight!