Tuesday, June 15, 2010

D'oh

Well I'm a bonehead. After doing some more reading today, I discovered that I put way too much ammonia in the initial round of seeding. A tank my size actually only gets 2 teaspoons of ammonia - not 2 tablespoons. I took out about 75% of the water and replaced it with fresh dechlorinated water and ran the filter for an hour. It went down to 1.0 PPM. I just added 1 teaspoon full of ammonia to try and get it back up to 4.0 PPM. We'll see how it goes. I also tested the 1 gallon African Dwarf frog aquarium for nitrites and nitrates. It had 0 nitrites and 20 PPM nitrates. I think I'll be stealing some of water by vacuuming up all the good stuff at the bottom of that tank and putting it in the new one to try and jump start the cycling on the new aquarium.

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