I’ve been doing a fishless cycle with Tropica aqua soil for just over 4 weeks. Water chemistry is now:
Ammonia 0 (more accurately 0.035ppm)
Nitrite 0.25
Nitrate 5.0
pH fluctuates but after water changes appears to settle at around 7.8-8.1. I live in a hard water area and KH test was around 15 dKH (15 drops in the NT lab test kit)
I’ve been doing water changes every 2-3 days so I never let the ph go above 8.3.
Do I need to do anything to adjust pH and kh levels before I add fish. Understand that I still have some time before I finish cycling as need to get nitrite to 0.
Ammonia 0 (more accurately 0.035ppm)
Nitrite 0.25
Nitrate 5.0
pH fluctuates but after water changes appears to settle at around 7.8-8.1. I live in a hard water area and KH test was around 15 dKH (15 drops in the NT lab test kit)
I’ve been doing water changes every 2-3 days so I never let the ph go above 8.3.
Do I need to do anything to adjust pH and kh levels before I add fish. Understand that I still have some time before I finish cycling as need to get nitrite to 0.