I finally got my 10gal Marineland Bio-wheel tank up and running :-D it's such a beautiful tank and it includes(as seen in picture) neon gravel, bio-wheel filter, heater, thermometer, bee hive cave, ancient bridge, leaf bed, LED lights that have 3 settings(on daylight, on nighttime... blue, and off) I will be adding the ceramic octopus holding a "no fishing" sign and a neon cave into the tank once it is fully cycled.... it is in my male VT's current 2.5 right now. On this journal I will be posting questions, pictures on progress and daily parameters, and maybe some betta pictures of my baby :3. Below are the pictures of the tank as of 15 mins ago.
Start date of cycling: 2/26/13. Added 4ppm pure ammonia (in my case 1.5mL). i have a question now by the way, when exactly should i start testing for nitrites and NitrAtes?( i test Ammo daily)
thank you thanks you! oh my goodness i'm sooo happy!!! my cycling is half way done!!! i did my daily ammo testing today and the ammonia was at 1ppm!!! and i checked the nitrites and it was up so im gettin' there it's going more smoothly than i was expecting! oh and, when should i do a water change to my cycling tank and how big of a WC? i heard you should at some point in cycling....
todays parameters: Ammo.: 1ppm... dosed back up to 4ppm at 5pm Nitrites: 5ppm NitrAtes: 5 or less ppm. (are these looking good?) thanks and please answer my 2 questions that're in red;-):roll:
Those sound good to me..... Getting closer to the ideal parameters! But as a fair warning I'm not very knowledgeable in the criteria of cycling..... It is very much still a learning process of trail and error with me :/ Can't wait for more pictures and updates! Keep up the good work!
Hahaa thank you!!!! I may also add a mini version of that plant too so he has a second plant but its base broke so im not sure :roll: i just hopE the cycling takes just one more week :3
urgh :C i added more ammonia last night cause it went back down to 1ppm and this morning i checked it and it was at 8ppm -.- i just did a 30% water change so i hope it will be back to normal:|
I did a fish-in cycle 3 times already, so it seems like that's what works best for me. Knocked the ammonia down to 0 in only about 2 weeks the first time I think I might do a fish-out cycle fr my next tank project.
Yeah I bet you can't! I'm home-schooled currently but I take classes at different schools so I wake up fairly early... Because the sooner I''m done, the better! lol But I can't wait to just be able to relax and not have to worry about being knee deep in work studying for my finals tests! lol
ergh!!! today is day 29 of my cycling, which means it's been 4 weeks!! when will my cycling be done?? :c i just added in some seeding material to hopefully speed things up. (a ceramic octopus from Zuko's old tanky)
Nitrite decreased!! it went from 5-2ppm :3
i'm sooo happy now!!
here was my parameters as of 2pm:
ammo:.50ppm
Nitrites: 2ppm
NitrAtes: 5ppm
i'm very haappy now i was running around the house Oh my gooodnessss! i can tell things will be ready fast now :-D
and today 4/1/13 marks day 35 of my cycling which means today marks 5 weeks!!! here's my parameters as of today at 7pm:
ammo:1ppm
nitrites: 2ppm
nitrAtes: 5ppm
soooo i just tested my parameters and i noticed today was day 42= 6weeks of cycling. when i tested... i was amazed :3
my nitrAtes FINALLY increased!!!!!!!! zomygoodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
here:
as of 4:30pm 4/8/13
Ammo- 1ppm
Nitrites- 2ppm
NITRATES- 40ppm!!!!!!!!!!
they sky-rocketed from 5ppm to 40ppm! :-D :-D :-D :-D
should i do another PWC to prevent any buffers and keep things gong smooth?
Today is day 43 and as you all know yesterday i posted that my nitrAtes finally increased.. Well now TODAY my nitrites decreased!!!
Heres my parameter as of 8:30pm.
Ammo: 1ppm
Nitrites: 0ppm
NitrAtes: 80ppm
My nitrAtes also increased more. I just added it back up to 4ppm but are things looking good?? :3 PLEASE reply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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