goblin
Member
Been doing some studing here. I have learned a great deal on here so far, plan on reading more so I am bound to learn a lot more. Just wanted to say Hi. The wife and I just moved cross country. From Maryland to Texas. I bought my mom a 55g tank a couple of years ago for christmas. She got tired of cleaning it and gave it to me. I set it up about a month ago with just fresh water in it and nothing else, with unpacking the house and my wifes honey do's haven't had much time for anything else. Well about a week or two ago the filter finally died. The water started to get alittle murky so it was time to get off the pot and start setting it up. Bought a canister filter, sand, and some LS. Put in the sand and added the salt waited about a day and a half and added the LS. A couple of days later I bought a test kit. Tested the ph, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. The ammonia and nitrite was 0 and the nitrate I would say about an 8 according to the color chart. Is it possible that the 3 or so weeks that I was just filtering the water it went thru the cycle and I just missed it? I plan on waiting about another week and adding some LR and then about another week put in some fish. As you can see I'm not in a big rush. Thanks for all the help everyone on here has been putting out. And thanks ahead of time for all the help, with all the questions I will be asking.
