Stress Zyme kicks Nitrite in the Butt
BEFORE
Stress Zyme kicks Nitrite in the Butt
AFTER
If you click onto the captions under the photos you will see it in a larger size. Anyways, I finally cleared the Ammonia in my tank by using the water conditioner “Prime”. Then the nitrites took off. Never have I ever had zero ammonia and zero nitrite at the same time. Now Prime brought down the ammonia level and quick so I googled for something which would bring down the Nitrite and came up with Stress Zyme. I had some Stress Zyme from when I first set up my tank. Once cycled I thought I didn’t need the stuff anymore. Boy was I wrong. I put five cap fulls into this 55 gallon tank and I could have sworn the Nitrite went up in just a hour or so and I went to bed worried. When I woke up in the morning and retested I had zero nitrites. So the bottom photo shows zero amonia and zero nitrites at the same time. A first for me. Yeah!!!
So I’m going to the store to buy another 16 ounce bottle of both Stress Zyme and Prime to use weekly along with my water changes. Can I have perfect water at all times? We will see.
Prime Water Conditioner
Saved by Prime Water Treatment. Geez, I’ve been battling this Ammonia thing for quite sometime now. Mojo died a while back and I tested the water and found it as green as in the test tube on the right in the photo above. I figured I let the water get too dirty somehow even though I was changing water every 3 or 4 days. Never could get a handle on the Ammonia. I used Ammonia chips in one of my filters and it brought the level down to a light green. What I do is fill 4 five gallon water containers and let them sit for a few days and use that water for my water changes. I thought by letting the water sit, the bad stuff in the water would just go away. Nope, that wasn’t the case. In the above water test, the water was taken from one of the five gallon containers which had been sitting for a few days. The test proved the water to be in the toxic green level. Never a fish has been in this water, but yet it is toxic green. This is what I’ve been putting into my tank all along.
So, I put a little Prime into the water I had tested which came out toxic green. After waiting just a few minutes I retested and you can see the results in the test tube on the left which is in the safe yellow area.
The purpose of this blog is to record what I learn about raising goldfish. My goal is to raise several goldfish for a decade or longer (the same fish). So far the longest I’ve had a goldfish is just over two years and that was my beautiful Mojo.
The thing is, I had this bottle of Prime from a long time ago when I was setting up my tank and then I’ve forgotten about it. When I’ve noticed this toxic levels in my tap water, I went to research how to remove the Ammonia and came across this Prime Treatment. I knew I had a bottle of it somewhere and my wife helped me find it. Now I will be using Prime all the time. I put a little bit into each of the five gallon containers so when I do change the water it will be with safe water from the get-go. I only learn by hard knocks. I read about how to take care of a tank, but it doesn’t register with me until I actually do it or experience it.
