Todays results.

Left - Tap
Right - Tank

Right tested all 3 just now, awaiting results.

If my tapwater does have ammonia, what can I do about water changes... RO Unit's are out of the question.
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Left - Tap Water
Middle - Tank Water
Right - Bottled Water

(now I'm pretty sure I ...

Think the lighter one is from the tank, the one on the left is the one from the bottled water which had longer before I looked at the result.

Here are the results, one from the tank, one from the bottled water that I bought:



I would say they're the same colour?

I bought some still natural mineral water to test for ammonia on.

Tomorrow, I'm doing a 25% water change, should I replace the white sponge?

Also I've bought some Seachem Prime and some Seachem AmGuard.

I'm guessing I'll add the Seachem AmGuard first, and leave it at that?

anyone?

Right so far at aqua essentials my shopping basket consists of these:

1 EasyLife Easy Carbo 500ml - £9.99
1 Ferplast BluStart Bacteria Activator - £9.39
1 Tetra Fresh Delica Daphnia - £3.89
1 Sechem AmGuard 500ml - £15.99

Is there anything else...
Should I chuck the wood I have in their now, and ...

Now done, and I have got £80 to spend on something :/

Okay will do. Since being off here over last few days, I got a timer for the lights and today sold the Rio 125

I best buy some Seachem AmGuard then to get it down and keep it down

nope, that was straight from the tap nothing added, nothing taken away.
unless im reading it wrong, looks both green at one point then yellow the next :/

Right so its just choosing which ammonia remover to buy

Seachem Prime
Seachem AmGuard
Prodibio Stop Ammo

Also how long will Moss Balls last in a bowl of water? No filter or air pumps?

So nothing I can do then?

How do I know when I can add fishies?

Reading from tapwater says:

Ammonia: 0.25ppm

I suppose best solution to loosing ammonia would be a 50% water change?

Just tested the water:

Ammona: 0.25ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm

Just need to get that ammonia down

I've already got 3 anubias nana's lol
Java fern hmm okay I'll look them up, what's that Crypt plant?

EDIT: Already got a Java Fern lol, and it's grown soo much since I put it in, it's actually huge!

should I buy the Daphnia from ebay aswell?
What other plants would be good to buy but easy to maintain?

Just got back from a fish shop, bought 5 giant vallis and some Melafix.
Also saw a really nice Male Betta, shrimp and baby kuhli loach *didn't buy any*

Been looking on ebay and found these:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tetra-Fresh-Delica-Daphnia-Aquarium-Fish-Food-Treat ...

What about the blood worms and brine shrimp aswell?

Melafix okay, anything else?

Okay I'm trying to get free postage here, so I'm looking at things to buy for the tank.

Ferplast BluStart - £9.39
Tetra Fresh Delica Daphnia - £3.89 (anyone tried these?)
4 Cladophora aegagropila - £3.95 each
Easy Life EasyCarbo 500ml - £9.99

Total - £39.07 (for free postage I need to spend £40 ...

Okay thanks.
How long will it take for the capsules to kick in once, I've put them in the tank?

Found some for £9.39

Should that help with me getting shrimp quicker, cos they are my second priority after sorting out the water.

Well the Otto's seem to be eating it at the minute, or one has found the half bit.

Suppose I'll have to wait a while before adding some shrimp in.

Yeah I havent put any food in tonight as there is still 1 and a 1/2 of the new life spectrum wafers in there from yesterday. Should I remove that? Or leave for the fish to feed on?

Well I done water tests for Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate at 5pm

Ammonia - 0.25ppm - 0.50ppm
Nitrite - 0ppm
Nitrate - 10ppm

Poly Pads are pretty much unwashable... and I cleaned the fine blue sponge in the tank water.

Damn so I've pretty much set my fishes, death sentence
Should I be checking daily for Nitrate, Nitrate and Ammonia spikes?

Okay, what is the treatment for bloat, just incase I have any future casualties.

I only changed the Poly Pad, Nitrate Sponge and the Filter Sponge Course. And took out 1 Fine blue sponge to have room for the Cirax.

I've got a little leflet that says

Change:
Poly Pad - Weekly
Carbon Sponge - 1 ...

Yeah I have two vallis, about 3 anubias, 1 moss ball and unsure about others. But I would like the entire left glass wall of the tank to be Vallis, which will cause tricky as I've put the new Fluval filter there.

Also after moving some of the wood pieces around I came across what looks like mould ...