Hi All... Help With Water Test Results Please

hi im a new fish keeper, ive got a 200 litre fluval tank with fluval 304 external filter and a bubbler.

i currently have 11 guppies, 10 neon tetras, 2 silver 2 black mollies, 2 female swordtail mollies, 4 clown loaches, 4 julii cory catfish, 2 silver dollars, 1 gold nugget plec, 1 ruby shark, 2 dwarf african frogs

3 live plants and some decoration

heres my water test results...
PH 7.5
nitrate 10mg/l
nitrite 0.2mg/l
ammonia 0.7mg/l
phosphate 0.5mg/l
kh 7degrees dh
gh 10 degrees dh

im going to do a 30% water change tomorrow, is there anything i should be worried about with these results?

Thanks Dylan.

ive had the tank 4 weeks now, i didnt really cycle the tank to be honest, we had the tank 1 week with plants in, before we started adding fish, adding a few every 2 or 3 days, got the itchy feet and couldnt wait to have fish 

ill do a 75% water change tomorrow, hopefully my fish are ok. they seem fine just now all swimming about happy

the swordtails, must just be swordtails, the girl at dobbies said to her they were swordtailed mollies

Shop workers don't know what they are talking about half the time 

You are now doing a fish-in cycle, with rather a lot of fish. My advice would be to rehome the clown loaches and silver dollars as they are going to get far too big for your tank and taking them back to the shop will reduce the fish  numbers and make things easier for you.
If the fish have been in there for 3 weeks you are well into the cycle. Have you been measuring the ammonia level over those three weeks? It would probably have been a lot higher than it is now, and it is on its way down as three weeks is plenty time to row the ammonia eating bacteria. But I suspect your nitrite is on its way up. I'll give you a link to read here. Your ammonia will probably behave itself from now on but it is the nitrite you need to keep under control so you still need to follow those instructions.
Doing a very big water change now will get the nitrite level close to zero; your on-going task is to measure ammonia and nitrite every day and do a water change as soon as they get near 0.25. The target is to stop the level of either going over 0.25. You will find eventually that both go up slower and slower until one day you'll realise that the readings have been zero every day for a week. That is the point the tank will be officially cycled.

Hi Dylan,
Don't be too disheartened, you're not the first to be given dodgy advice from your local store. You're aiming for ammonia and nitrite to be zero as they are both toxic to fish. Given the predicament you are in I would add a lot of Pure Aquarium Balls to your tank as these are a reliable way of reducing ammonia and nitrite in an uncycled aquarium. I've used them in quarantine tanks successfully and Practical Fishkeeping Magazine swears by them (and those guys know about fish!). I'd also add plants (especially floating varieties) as they use ammonia and nitrite in the tank.

Keep up the water changes and get rid of the those loaches and silver dollars as they are too big for your tank.

tested the water today, the nitrite levels at 0 now, but my ammonia level is at 0.3, ive done another smaller water change this morning, ill leave it a couple of days and do a large water change again. the water change didnt take nearly as long as i thought it would too which is good

im unsure about my heater, its a fluval one, ive just put the digital thermometer i was using to test the water-change water in the tank, and the temperate is fluctuating a whole degree, up and down between 25.5-26.5 celcius is this ok? or is it bad for the fish?

done a 10% change yesterday, and another 50% today, after my result today, im not sure if i got a bit of fish poop in my test water but it looked like my ammonia was about 0.6ppm, so done a 50% water change just incase, will test the water in a few hours, my nitrite level is still 0.

the tank is crystal clear, ive never seen water so clear lol...

Your ammonia is creeping up! The level of the toxic part is now 0.018. The highest you can let the ammonia reading get without harming the fish is 1.1 with your test kit (this gives 0.02 toxic ammonia, the highest safe level)

As soon as the ammonia reading gets to 1.0, you need to do a water change. And if you see nitrite at or above 0.25.

Nice one

Fur future reference, Seachem Safe is Seachem Prime but undiluted in powder form. Exactly the same formula otherwise. Works out a lot cheaper.

Having previously lost fish by doing a fish-in cycle, I didn't want anyone else to suffer the same fate.

Keep up the frequent water changes, add the Seachem Prime at every water change and your fish will benefit greatly.

Please let us know how you get on.

Are you sure about the nitrate reading? With my test kit the levels go zero, 5, 10 etc.

Nitrate can only rise once there are nitrite eating bacteria turning nitrite into nitrate. But tap water usually contains some nitrate - UK legislation allows up to 50ppm (mg/l). You need to measure the amount of nitrate in your tap water and subtract that from the tank reading to find out of nitrate is going up. In a cycled tank, nitrate will rise between one water change and the next as the only way to remove it is by water changes.

The fact that your ammonia is going up, albeit slowly, indicates that your tank is not cycled yet. Don't let the ammonia reading get to 1 as with your pH and temp that is the value at which the toxic part gets to danger level.