Ammonia being checked by adding AMMOLOCK every two days. Fish are better.
Water change every week.


"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:16:10 -0500, "Richard Holub"
wrote:

How long does it take for ammonia to be broken down to nitrite/nitrate in
a
new filter? I have had my new drip filter going for approximately 4 weeks
and so far my tests only read ammonia. Isin't it about time that the
tests
show some nitrite buil-up?

160 gal. rubber lined pond, 72 deg. F, four 8" koi...

Rich

Usually a drip system gets going faster than others, and I would expect by
4 weeks you would be seeing improvements. How are you managing the
ammonia?
This could be the problem. What is the pH? ~ jan


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