"Haynes'ey" wrote in message
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"Haynes'ey" wrote in message
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Being very new to the hobby could someone please tell me the
procedure
for
adding plants to the aquarium and what to go for.

Depends on fish.

I have a 40g tank and I am going to keep Goldfish and Comets is
there a
plant or plants that they particularly like, I have seen the plants
in
the
plastic pots which look very good and I don't remember them being
around
when I was a youngster with my Goldfish then.

Goldfish eat live plants. Think along the lines of plastic and silk
plants.

Sounds ok to me.


Being a newbie I am into week3 of my cycle, I have been adding
cycle
liquid
and from reading other articles in the newsgroups am expecting high
ammonia
readings.

What is your source of ammonia? Do you have any fish in there?

I had some plants which I took out beginning of last week, and then
from
another posters reply last night I put in some flakes.

That's the problem then. Typical sources of ammonia are fish (their
waste) or anything decomposing (fish food, rotting plant matter etc).
I'm not sure why you detected nitrites, unless you had some pre-existing
ammonia which is now gone. These things will balance out when you have a
more constant ammonia source for your filter's biological component to
grow with.
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So far ammonia is showing as zero but Nitrite and Nitrate are quite
high is
this possible without some kind of ammonia reading.

You can gave nitrate in your tap water, but nitrite would be unusual
unless you initially had ammonia from some source.

Thanks for putting up with my inexperience, but I hope to be up to
speed
pretty soon (about 30 years I guess).

I've been doing this for over 30 years and I'm no where near finished
learning, but I'm still having fun.

I hope to be saying the same then, thanks for your comments.

Haynes'ey

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Cheers everyone,

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Haynes'ey.