nitrite

Hi, I am having some problems with a newly established tank. In a nutshell, I am having an ammonia spike with no changes in nitrates and nitrites. Hopefully someone can provide some advice. Here's the history: 30 gallon tank was set up 8 weeks ago. Put in a specific african cichlid substrate...

I just checked my 5gallon fry tank' s nitrite,and it was 3.3 ppm, where as my 29gallon Community tank is 0 ppm. WHAT DO I DO? My fry are all acting normal, though!

:mad: :mad: :mad: So I recently stopped aging my water (which I started to do after a previous nitrite spike) and what greeted me this morning in my blue orchid peacock tank -- no fish swimming around. I quickly saw a few females and the baby petricola gasping in one corner. So -- just what...

So earlier in the week (about 4 days ago) I checked my levels in my 55gal cichlid tank. The Nitrites were in the 9.0-10.0ppm range and the Nitrates were around the 40ppm range... I then tested the Ammonia and it was between .25-.50ppm. I did a 50% water change, changed 1 of the 2 cartiges in...

I just set up a fish tank after a long absence from the hobby. I tested the nitrite (NO2) level in my Falls Church tap water at 2 ppm. Nitrates are also high--about 20 ppm. The 2010 water quality report indicates that they've historically been at 0-.09 NO2 and .6-2.6 NO3. These units are in...

You know it's going to be a rough morning when you wake up to MTS lined up at the water line of your tank! I'd pulled up all the plants, removed the "extra" pair of rainbow cichlids and did a pretty good (though not great) gravel vac on Saturday as my favorite pair of rainbows was raising a...

This happened again this weekend. I have a 30-gallon, set up for two months, with two established filters, lightly stocked and lightly fed. I test every morning for nitrite and it's zero. I did a water change this weekend, about 25 percent. I added more than enough Prime. I did not shut off any...