well--thanks guys!!!
i am using a dip stick testing kit and from reading everyone's post i guess i better move on up to the liquid testing kits. but it was so wonderful to see no levels of anything this morning and this afternoon.
this does have me suspicious of course, because i did expect to see spikes in nitrates but i don't....
i will be taking a baggies of water to the LFS i like on friday. they do the liquid testing.
stability says rapid and safe establishment of bio filter and it says it prevents new tank syndrome. the LFS owner told me about it when i told him my story about the overpopulated, 10g tank i created-and how i had a 36g up and waiting. he suggested the stability would help me cycle.
the filter is a rena cannister.
i love those barbs!!!
