I have just gotten my water test kit and I need to know what the water peramiters are. Thank You.

what do you mean what are they?

I need the break down of the safe peramiters. I know it is on here somewhere, but I can't find it! Thank you

you need to test for:Ammonia and Nitrite these 2 should both be 0 the other is Nitrate this can be ok up to a reading of 50ppm

Wonderful, then they are perfect!

Thats good then obviously with the Nitrate the closer to 0 you can get the better

mine was
Amonia 0
Ph 7.6
nitrite 0
nitrate 20ppm

yep sounds perfect to me

Thank you for your help!

your nitrate should not go higher that 20ppm. 20ppm is giving
you a signal to do 25% water change. if 30ppm, do 30% water change
and so on. 10 ppm is ideal, 20ppm is tolerable, 30ppm w/c is
a must.

in a healthy aquarium, just before you do a schedualed water change, your nitrate reading should be around the forty mark. if you have a sick or damaged oscar in your tank, the lower the nitrates the better for healing. in the latter case i would recoommend doing water change when the nitrate reading gets to 20.

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