[AquaticLife] Re:Tetra’s Monthly Aquarium Maintenance advice???
Ray,
Here is a snip from one of Dora’s posts earlier today…
“ph in my tank this morning is 7.6. It barely went up. Ammonia and nitrates both went down, and nitrites are down a little. This isn’t a full 24 hours. Nitrites are between 1.0 and 2.0.”
That is where I got the 7.6 pH level from. I can only base my answers on the supplied information. If the information changes, then my earlier answer may not be applicable…. which is why I told her to check the website with all of the simple charts so she would know whether to be concerned or not.
All of this, once again, leads me to stress … PLEASE FISHLESS CYCLE if you don’t have access to cycled filter media to start up fully cycled… it’s a heck of a lot easier on the fish and on the owners. And until some user test results come back on all of the newly reformulated Bio-Spira spin-offs, Fishless Cycling is the best option to safely and surely fully cycle a tank..
All of these pH questions would have also been worked out during the fishless cycle so the owner would know more about their water chemistry at the end of those few weeks without having to subject the fish to the cycling process.
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