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Some creatures can survive amazing things but in a properly cycled system you do want your ammonia and nitrite to be 0 or at least below .25. Nitrate is what you want for the plants.

found a dead marron today, but did have a sick one before that I thought was shedding shell, have marron nets in tank now to see if I can catch any, I have a breed pair of Blue Marron coming this evening, so want to make sure I have live ones before I put blues in tank, I tested ammonia today to see if it had climbed and maybe sacrificed my marron but it has actually dropped below are Saturdays for last 2 weeks and today's ammonia only
Week 1 28th June
Ph = 7.6
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Week 2 5th July
Ph = 8.0
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1.5ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Wednesday 9th July
Ammonia .5ppm
Hope I have some live ones in net, and if so will post pics of blue's in my system thread later this evening, man day off today and still tied to the tank

Week 1 28th June
Ph = 7.6
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Week 2 5th July
Ph = 8.0
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1.5ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Wednesday 9th July
Ammonia .5ppm
Friday 11 June
Ph 7.6
Ammonia less than .25ppm
No2 1ppm
No3 under 10 ppm

Happy days

Week 1 28th June
Ph = 7.6
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Week 2 5th July
Ph = 8.0
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1.5ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Wednesday 9th July
Ammonia .5ppm
Friday 11 June
Ph 7.6
Ammonia less than .25ppm
No2 1ppm
No3 under 10 ppm
Week 3 12 July
Ph 7.5
N02 2ppm
NO3 7.5ppm
Ammonia closer to 0 than .25ppm
Don't know what caused the spike still, this week have pump on 24/7 so maybe this is the answer, still think dead marron could have caused it, but then what caused it to die, was better when I didn't have a test kit but seriously get down to EB's and get one, Blue Marron (link) are in and I want everything perfect for them, still don't know if No2 and No3 are right so maybe one of the guru's can tune me in hope to get around 200 baby blue's this year so stay tuned and will let you's know if any for sale, I have brown females as well so maybe get more if they breed more blue than brown

Nice rain that put about 50 extra litres in tank, tested ammonia only today and have a big duck egg reading "0"

Week 1 28th June
Ph = 7.6
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Week 2 5th July
Ph = 8.0
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1.5ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Wednesday 9th July
Ammonia .5ppm
Friday 11 June
Ph 7.6
Ammonia less than .25ppm
No2 1ppm
No3 under 10 ppm
Week 3 12 July
Ph 7.5
Ammonia 0ppm
N02 2ppm
NO3 7.5ppm
Week 4 19 July
Ph 7.6
Am 0ppm
No2 1.5ppm
No3 10ppm
How do things look this week?

Another week to go nocky, should be all good.

Hope so OB, but that is what they said about the West Coast Eagles a few weeks back

Which ones are coming out of rehab Nocky

Rupe I nearly originally posted so shut up rupe

ROFL

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Week 1 28th June
Ph = 7.6
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Week 2 5th July
Ph = 8.0
Ammonia = 1.5ppm
No2 = 1.5ppm
No3 = 10ppm
Wednesday 9th July
Ammonia .5ppm
Friday 11 June
Ph 7.6
Ammonia less than .25ppm
No2 1ppm
No3 under 10 ppm
Week 3 12 July
Ph 7.5
Ammonia 0ppm
N02 2ppm
NO3 7.5ppm
Week 4 19 July
Ph 7.6
Am 0ppm
No2 1.5ppm
No3 10ppm
Week 5 27 July
Ph 7.8
Ammonia 0ppm
No2 0ppm
No3 0ppm
man 5 weeks after a filter change I made it think I will leave pump on 24/7 until I get to Perth and BYAP shop to by an air pump

Nocky, dont discount using a low wattage water pump for aeration as well.