hello everyone. just registered today and i hope to stay for a while. a little background if you dont mind. just about 2 weeks ago, i woke up and wanted to have a goldfish aquarium. so i went into the rush rush adrenaline thing and set it up. my tank measured 40 inc by 17 inch by 15 inch and placed 14 common goldfish. after about 4 days all of them died. so i cleaned it up and again placed another 13 and religiously watched over them. but again they died. then i began my research though heartbroken. i learned about nitrogen cycle and fishless cycling using fishfood. i sterilized everything first. i clouded the water with fish food and filter and aerator on. my test water kit (api) came on day 4 and heres the parameter, ph 8.2, ammo 4, nitrite 2, nitrate 0. now on day 6, ammo dropped to 0.5 while the rest are status quo. this time i will wait until my tank will complete its cycle because i dont want to kill any fish anymore. question, is it okay to raise the ammo level to 4 or do i wait for the nitrite to go 0?
thank you.....
