Aquarium is humming along

Jun
16
2005

Yesterday, the aquarium's chemistry settings completely stabilized. I used BIO-Spira to do it and it appears that the product is everything it claims to be. I had been trying to get the tank to cycle on it's own without fish, manually adding ammonia, but it was taking a long time to get to a nitrite spike. I found some BIO-Spira both online and at a local store. I added the stuff from the local store on Sunday and by Monday, the toxic levels I had created had come way down, so I added fish and the bacteria ordered online. Sometime mid-yesterday, the chemistry completely stabilized and handled not only the ammonia I added before the fish, but the fish themselves. There are now 3 Platy's and 5 male guppies swimming around happy in the tank.

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