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    From Jeff@1:278/230 to All on Sat Aug 14 17:26:00 2004
    Tank is approx. week old. Saw several white spots on 1 Red Wag and on 1
    Cold Crescent, plus 1 started to rub on rock and swim at surface. Turned heater to 82-84 (waiting for it to stabilize) and treated my 40 net gallons with two teaspoons of Paragon II. Took carbon out of filter. Will repeat
    per instructions. My water change water ammonia is still around .75 ppm so
    I can't use it yet (?) Tank water ammonia is hovering around .4 ppm, nitrites/nitrates still 0.0.

    Salt currently at 1Tbl/10 gal.

    Anything else I should do?

    Jeff82


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  • From Geezer From The Freezer@1:278/230 to All on Sat Aug 14 18:27:00 2004
    Jeff wrote:

    Tank is approx. week old. Saw several white spots on 1 Red Wag and on 1
    Cold Crescent, plus 1 started to rub on rock and swim at surface. Turned heater to 82-84 (waiting for it to stabilize) and treated my 40 net gallons with two teaspoons of Paragon II. Took carbon out of filter. Will repeat per instructions. My water change water ammonia is still around .75 ppm so
    I can't use it yet (?) Tank water ammonia is hovering around .4 ppm, nitrites/nitrates still 0.0.

    Salt currently at 1Tbl/10 gal.

    Anything else I should do?



    Keep monitoring ammonia, if it goes too high do partial water change to dilute it down.
    Everything else looks good!!
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  • From Jeff@1:278/230 to All on Tue Aug 17 11:21:00 2004
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    Jeff wrote:

    Tank is approx. week old. Saw several white spots on 1 Red Wag and on 1 Cold Crescent, plus 1 started to rub on rock and swim at surface.
    Turned
    heater to 82-84 (waiting for it to stabilize) and treated my 40 net
    gallons
    with two teaspoons of Paragon II. Took carbon out of filter. Will
    repeat
    per instructions. My water change water ammonia is still around .75 ppm
    so
    I can't use it yet (?) Tank water ammonia is hovering around .4 ppm, nitrites/nitrates still 0.0.

    Salt currently at 1Tbl/10 gal.

    Anything else I should do?



    Keep monitoring ammonia, if it goes too high do partial water change to
    dilute
    it down.
    Everything else looks good!!

    What would be too high? (What point to start water change?)

    Jeff


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  • From Geezer From The Freezer@1:278/230 to All on Tue Aug 17 12:54:00 2004
    Jeff wrote:

    What would be too high? (What point to start water change?)

    Jeff

    Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate....

    You wnat to keep ammonia and nitrite low (if your cycle has completed it should be 0
    if it hasn't keep it below 0.5ppm). Nitrate should be less than 40ppm ideally less than 20ppm
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