Up & running.....

[Shane]

Readings Tuesday night 9pm.

PH 7.6
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrite between 2.0 - 5.0
Nitrate 5.0

Tank temp 11.7....temp would have fallen lower still due to another smallish hail storm early hours of Wednesday morning.

[rainwater]

Hi Shane
My system has been up for 3 weeks and my results are spiking at the moment also
test results last night were
amo .25, Nitrite 2.0 to 5.0, Nitrate 1.0, PH 7.2 to 7.4
My Nitrate was 5 on Monday but has droped so it all must be doing its thing. My water temp in Sydney ranges between 10 and 13 oC at the moment.
I started the system with 6 gold fish straight away and two helpings of gunk from the fish bowl the the kids sacrifice fish in on a regular basis ( they are 4 and 5 and no matter what I do to the water they manage to kill them some how.)So there is plenty of goog bactieria in there that is now in the ap system. Added a little Humonia and in three weeks the system is well on its way. Hopefully it will settle down enough for fish this weekend.

[Shane]

and in three weeks the system is well on its way. Hopefully it will settle down enough for fish this weekend.
Hi rainwater,
What sort of fish do you intend to put in?
Some nice water tanks on your site, do you use one for your FT?

Test results 8pm wednesday night.

PH 7.6
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrite 5.0
Nitrate 5.0
Tank temp 11.5.

[rainwater]

Hi Shane,
Yes I use a 1100L cattle trough as the FT and some of Murray's 550L BG'S. I use a 3000L rainwater tanks as top up for the system.
I am putting trout in, should get them on the weekend.
I came home last night and I could see the bottom of the fish tank for the first time in almost 4 weeks. It went from clay yellow couldnt see the bottom in 600mm to 85% clear over night???? Anyway Im not arguing.

[Shane]

Test results Thursday night 8pm

Ph 7.6
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrite 5.0
Nitrate between 5.0 - 10
Tank temp 11.7 deg C.

Ammonia has spiked & fallen, Nitrite has spiked & Nitrate is sloooowly climbing.


...theres movement at the station...fish time is getting closer.:)