My tank is cycled! :-)

[coolchinchilla]

I was so worried about my new tank with 10 cichlids. I was sure
someone would die, but I was going to try as hard as possible to not
let that happen. My water parameters are:

ammonia = 0
nitrite = 0
nitrate = 40ppm

YAY!!! I need to do a water change for the nitrates, but generally
the water is safe. And no one had to die while I got this thing up
and going. :-)

Now I will work on reducing my fish load -- maybe moving some fish
to a different tank.

coolchinchilla (a very relieved new cichlid keeper)

[Daniel Morrow]

"coolchinchilla" > wrote in message
...
> I was so worried about my new tank with 10 cichlids. I was sure
> someone would die, but I was going to try as hard as possible to not
> let that happen. My water parameters are:
>
> ammonia = 0
> nitrite = 0
> nitrate = 40ppm
>
> YAY!!! I need to do a water change for the nitrates, but generally
> the water is safe. And no one had to die while I got this thing up
> and going. :-)
>
> Now I will work on reducing my fish load -- maybe moving some fish
> to a different tank.
>
> coolchinchilla (a very relieved new cichlid keeper)

Beautiful job chin - I bet that cultured sponge filter plus the other things
you did helped tremendously! See - tropical fish keeping is cool! Later!