Whoa holy cloudy water batman

[Pan]

Okay, nice....I bought two blue devil damsel fish, figuring they would help cycle my tank, then i could put them into the new one...it's coming i'm just not sure on the size yet. So i put them in, acclimating with a little drip line...I tested water yesterday everything read okay. I went and saw a couple movies...and BOTH yes BOTH of them were on the carpet...now i'm not one for signs usually...but someone is trying to tell me something.....

Anyways after scooping them up, and cleaning the carpet i tested the water again...

ammonia 0
ph 7.6 or so
Nitrate 0
nitrite 0.2 or 0.3 or so... (eek)
Alk...Well...off the scale again...well not quite... 3.6 meq/l i would think...at least thats what the test indicates...

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

pH should also be in the 8.2-8.4.

50g is too narrow. I don't even like it for my sump because 12" is not wide enough to properly fit my Tunze skimmer box. 18" is good, 24" would be awesome. Unfortunately, very few tanks are made in the 24" wide range so that limits my own options. Ended up going with two 65g 3' by 18" by 2' tall tanks.

Anthony