Parameters improving

[Rudles]

05-22 1215
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrite 5.0 ppm
Nitrate 100 ppm
pH 6.6

05-23 1440
Ammonia 0 ppm 
Nitrite 2.0 ppm
Nitrate 80 ppm 
pH 6.6 

05-25 0900
Ammonia 0 ppm 
Nitrite 0.5 ppm 
Nitrate 80 ppm
pH 7.2

No Ammonia, Nitrite is falling, Nitrate holding steady and oddly enough pH has risen.

This is using the API Freshwater Master Test Kit as per instructions in the booklet. 

I'm hesitant to do a water change as I don't want to disturb the downward trend in Nitrite. Thoughts?

[Fish Folk]

I don’t think that a water change will make your cycle retrograde or reset. With your dirted method, I’d like to hear from @Streetwise whether he’s experienced any unusually high parameters when setting up and waiting on a tank to cycle. 

[Streetwise]

@Fish Folk, tank journals and Apex logs are my limit of documentation, and I don't think I did a lot of testing when setting up tanks. Organic soil tanks are so full of bacteria and nutrients that cycling is not really an issue. As Diana Walstad says,

“I usually let the tank run overnight with the heater and filter hooked up before adding the fish. However, if the tank looks good, sometimes I’ll add fish that evening without problems.”

Excerpt From: Diana Louise Walstad. “Ecology of the Planted Aquarium.” Apple Books. https://books.apple.com/us/book/ecology-of-the-planted-aquarium/id661029773

[Fish Folk]

19 minutes ago, Streetwise said:

@Fish Folk, tank journals and Apex logs are my limit of documentation, and I don't think I did a lot of testing when setting up tanks. Organic soil tanks are so full of bacteria and nutrients that cycling is not really an issue. As Diana Walstad says,

“I usually let the tank run overnight with the heater and filter hooked up before adding the fish. However, if the tank looks good, sometimes I’ll add fish that evening without problems.”

Excerpt From: Diana Louise Walstad. “Ecology of the Planted Aquarium.” Apple Books. https://books.apple.com/us/book/ecology-of-the-planted-aquarium/id661029773

 

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