Heya fellow fish friends.
This is my first time building an aquarium and so far the journey has been really fun and exciting but I'm thinking about starting the add the cleanup crew and I am somewhat nervous.
The aquarium has been running for 2 weeks and a half. The first week I did a 50% water change eveylryday while adding friendly bacteria once a week as recommended in the bottle and Tap Water Safe each water change.
The 2nd week I started doing water changes every 2 days and this week I'm doing once every 3 days.
So far I got these parameters from my water with the paper sticks and with drop test:
NH4: <0.05 ppm
NO3: 0 ppm
NO2: 0 ppm
GH: <3 ppm and <53 ppm
KH: 0
PH: 6.4
CL2: 0
Is my tank cycled? Should I be worried with any of these parameters?
The clean up crew I'm thinking of adding into my tank are Amano Shrimp and Corydoras Hasbrosus.
Posted by Jilanvus
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Your cycle is done when you dose 1-2ppm of ammonia and 24 hours later there are 0 ammonia and 0 nitrites. If you haven’t been dosing ammonia then get a bottle of Dr. Tim’s.
I don’t think you need to be doing water changes while it cycles. While it is cycling you want to leave ammonia and nitrite in the tank as a food source for the bacteria.
If it takes more than 24 hours for the ammonia or nitrite to go to 0 ppm, wait however long it takes to go to 0 then re-dose 1-2ppm of ammonia until they’re gone in 24 hours.