how long should i leave the water before adding it? and wont doing water changes effect the cycle because you are removing nirite and nitrate?

Thanks for the quick replies, yes i am in week 4 and my nirite has been high for about 3 weeks so trying to be patient!!! I will add some more ammonia in the tank later and do some water changes asap to bring it down probably do a 20% change sound good!?

Hello gang,

just an update, I am adding ammonia everyday to keep it up at 2 ppm, these are my reading can anyone let me know if these are normal etc etc:

Ammonia- is about 0.1 ( think i need to top it up)
NitrIte -off the chart
NitrAte - i read it as 110ppm
P.H - 8.2

what you guys think?

thanks what is the usual amount so ml per gallon?

cheers what would be the best thing to keep the ammonia up would fish flake do, i have some silverside left in the freeze would a small chunk of that do.

hello gang,

question my tank has been cycling for about 3 and a half weeks my ammonia peaked and dropped in about 3 days since then my nitrite has been at peak for about 3 weeks and nitrate have been about 10ppm for a week. I would have thought that it would have dropped by now. I was wondering would adding more source of ammonia speed to nitrite phase up.

Ta

hello i have just set up my tank if you look on the "new to this" article on list on the second page i have my tank pic on their.

The tank will only be housing fish no plants. I have removed one of my t5's because i couldn't get the temp of the tank to stay at a adequate temp but removing the tube has seemed to work.

Fish wise i am still researching people havin been recommending fish to me which has been really helpful, could you recommend any to me.

Thanks

Hello, i was wondering if anyone one would answer my question?

I have converted my aquareef to house my cichlids. the orginal lighting that i had with the tank is 2 t5s and 2 t8s. I have removed one of the t5's because my tank wouldnt cool below 27'c which i think is to high. So would it be worth investing in another two t8's instead. What do you guys think?

Thanks for all the info guys greatfully received, i tested my tank water. I have just brought a p.h.reducer stuff, so hopefully that might get it down a bit. i did wash the slate in boiling hot water to sterlise it.