FIRST photo is in my kitchen lighting (bulbs are a little bit yellow toned) SECOND photo is natural lighting.
🚩THIRD photo is me mixing 2.5ml of ammonia free water with 2.5ml of tank water and testing.🚩 Help please what do you think the actual reading is? I did the method of mixing half and half because i was worried my level was over 8ppm but just not sure at this point? (Axl is not in tank)
Just found out my tap water has very high nitrites naturally. I am a couple weeks into cycling a 70 gallon. Do i need to empty it and start over with water from an external source?):
my Axies (both about 4 inches long) were doing amazing for a week in their big (70gal) tank, but something happened with my cycle (my nitrites and ammonia spiked after 6 full days of them in the tank so I believe my cycle was not properly finished as I thought it was or i did something wrong, completely my mistake..) so i had to tub them to figure it out. I figured they would be fine together but one night over night (in a 56qt it is rectangle and filled about 12 inches deep) and i woke up to this mark on one of their tails. The place we got them from literally had them kept in 25 gallon tanks with 7-10 other axies (which i know is not correct but they were unfortunately doing it) and they all were getting a long so I really had no big concerns. They are both fed at least 2 times a day sometimes 3 if they are begging later in the day and again in the big tank nothing like this ever appeared….They both ate only one piece of worm this morning (blanched and cut up) when they usually both eat like a whole worm or 2. I feel so stressed about them not having their big home💔