My setup so far

GD, are you sure that it is 4 and not higher?? I know you said you found it hard to tell the difference between the two - could you have overdone it with the ammonia at all??

nope, its not 2 and its deffinately not 8ppm

its very close to the 4 colour

I can do it again and take a snap?

Best I could take - on bathroom window. Bear in mind it is rather cloudy an overcast outside!


If I gotta keep faffing around like this then the fish go in and can finish cycle themselves..ill just buy 30 neons as cannon fodder

looks more blue than green to me GD - almost perfectly matches the 7.6 ph level, just to confuse things further!! :lol:

its due to the tiles.

the 4.0 is the best matching green. But if there is no change over next few day I aint sure what I'll do, other than rant n rave lol

I'd say between 2 and 4 also. A tip would be to photograph the tube with the card upright for the closest match.

thanks Mary.

Same result today

30/04/08
Ammonia 4ppm
Nitrite 2ppm

01/05/08
Ammonia 4ppm
Nitrite 2ppm



The pic was a little dark due to being cloudy outside

Pretty colours. :lol:

is this a normal thing to happen where the ppm dont seem to move

Remind me, how long has it been stuck for GD? Maybe try a nitrAte test & post the results

*edit - it seems to of been stuck for 11days!

ill do NitrAte test now..

ok good, im sat here refreshing the page, lol i'll go make a brew

NitrAte is 10ppm

had a shower etc in the middle sorry for the wait

Oh

Well, if this were MY tank i'd be thinking of a 25% water change today as it's not moved in about 11 days.
Obviously i'm not telling you to do that but there will be new breeds of fish discovered at this rate
Worst it can do is slow it down, but if it's stuck, then it aint going very fast anyway, is it?

I washed my hair & tidied the kitchen, wondered what you were doing, lol

Grrrrr what a waste of my time!!

well i aint got time im on a 14hr shift from 1pm.!

tomorrow its my laser eye surgery so i cant really do much tomorrow unless i get up realy early!

who told me to do a fishless cycle!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

btw add swear words to the post above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol, swear words well i bet it'll sort it by giving it a 'freshen up'.

Im dashing off, gotta take a photo of a tutu & get it printed by this afternoon!

ill go down the beck and catch a few minnows let them sort it out

btw if i replace 25% should I also turn the filter off while doing this? or can it just be left?

Turn off both the filter and heater as they both need to be submerged to work properly.

It will be interesting to see what the levels are after the water change GD, hope it makes some difference.

Good Luck for tomorrow by the way,

Do you think you overdosed then GD - that would have caused everything to stall wouldnt it?

Hope you get it sorted ok.

well I got finished work very early!!! LOL only been in for a few hours! the joys of built up Time off. Mind i needed to go to a dentists appointment

So ill do this frigging water change in a bit!

good luck for tomorrow gd

So................we're waiting...................what are the latest readings??