JessiBeau
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- Feb 25, 2017
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Well, a little back story...my husband and I got a 65g tank for the living room, put in some cave,s gravel, live plants. Then promptly stocked it with fish. Then my husband brought home more fish.
This is when I discovered all the info about cycling your tank, realized our tank was over stocked, and grabbed a 36g bow front for the bedroom (to move some fish to in order to lover the bio load. It's now a molly sorority tank. All my females, my cherry red shrimp and some of the corys. Judging by aqadvisor/aqadvice don't remember which, both are now just right.)
I've got prime and stability arriving today from Amazon, some sponge filters to add in addition to the HOBs already installed, to up the filtration, plus my husband has agreed to let the serpae tetras go back to the store to decrease the living room tank bioload by a touch more.
So this is basically going to be me documenting the process, the water parameters and any losses. (The API master kit arrived yesterday, so I'm all set.)
I feel like a complete dummy, not doing a little more research prior to setting this stuff up, but I'm determined to fix everything.
Any advice going in to this? I'm already doing water changes, between 5 and 15 gallons, to keep the levels down until the prime and stability arrive.
This is when I discovered all the info about cycling your tank, realized our tank was over stocked, and grabbed a 36g bow front for the bedroom (to move some fish to in order to lover the bio load. It's now a molly sorority tank. All my females, my cherry red shrimp and some of the corys. Judging by aqadvisor/aqadvice don't remember which, both are now just right.)
I've got prime and stability arriving today from Amazon, some sponge filters to add in addition to the HOBs already installed, to up the filtration, plus my husband has agreed to let the serpae tetras go back to the store to decrease the living room tank bioload by a touch more.
So this is basically going to be me documenting the process, the water parameters and any losses. (The API master kit arrived yesterday, so I'm all set.)
I feel like a complete dummy, not doing a little more research prior to setting this stuff up, but I'm determined to fix everything.
Any advice going in to this? I'm already doing water changes, between 5 and 15 gallons, to keep the levels down until the prime and stability arrive.