Re: [GSAS-Member] Nitrogen Cycle - a slow start?

[Christine Ranegger <cranegger@msn.com>]

Concerning the Oto ... I wonder if it might have starved since they really like 
algae and in a newly set up tank they might not find enough of it. 

 

Just a thought,

Christine 
 
> From: mikeycpa@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:26:25 -0800
> To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Nitrogen Cycle - a slow start?
> 
> Roy,
> 
> I tried your suggestion as I am using API's Nitrate test solution that
> is part of their master test kit (the kind with two bottles). I did
> another test last night with your recommendation of plenty of vigorous
> shaking. No such luck. Nitrate is still reading 0. Also, when I
> went this morning to give my fish breakfast before I left for work,
> one of my oto's had was lying on the bottom, upside down, deceased.
> The other appeared to be fine and the danios are all just as active as
> always.
> 
> Does anyone know about a way to tell if the tank is fully cycled w/o
> using ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels to verify? Meg's suggestion
> (below) sounds like a possible explanation but with the death of a
> hearty fish like an oto I'm a bit concerned now and hesitant to
> introduce more less-hearty fish without knowing the water is
> definitively safe.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> -M-
> 
> ----------------- From Meg -----------------
> Perhaps the 0 nitrate reading is due to your plants using it up? If
> there are only a handful of fish compared to the amount of water, you
> might have a small concentration of nitrate that the plants are able
> to keep up with.
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