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OK, thanks a million eveyone. Now the tank has Ich, so I'm not putting the cuttings anywhere for the time being. New tank, new fish. I'm just very glad I didn't give in to temptation and add the 4 (healthy) fish from my 20gal like I'm planning to. I kept telling myself to wait a couple weeks...

Holy smokes! 8O OK, I'll remove the babies. I was going to plant them, but not if they're going to take over, and keep reproducing. I didn't realize they grew quite that vigorously. Thanks for the advice. :) Oh, silly question, but can I just reach in with some regular scissors (rinsed off)...

My Amazon Sword has the long piece (runner?) with five young plants on it, drifting upwards to the top of the tank. All the baby plants have roots, except the very top one. Do I just cut off each baby plant and plant it seperately? And leave the top one attached to the one under it until it has...

Today when I came home from work, the numbers looked lovely :wink: . I'll still give it a couple days, just to make sure. The nitrate is down, too, (less than 20), but I have green algae from all the high nitrates I had. Can I just clean it off, let the filter suck it up, then rinse the foams...

Well, numbers are down again this morning, but without any water changes this time. ammonia 0, nitrite 0.3, nitrate 20, PH 7. I'll dose in a little while, then retest a couple times over the next 24 hr to see what it's doing. It's encouraging that the numbers came down alone during the night.

11 hours after the initial test and re-dosing, and the numbers are right back up there. PH has gone down, too, for some reason. As the ammonia goes down from it's 2ppm (takes about 10 hours, which seems a little long to me), the nitrates and nitrites gradually go up. Once the ammonia is totally...

I tested my other two tanks with the test kits, and they're bang on. I was wondering myself at one point. I use AquaPlus water conditioner. I did a test this morning, results were ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 5, PH 7. I added the regular amount of dosing, bringing ammonia to 2 ppm. Retested 1...

OK, I did the 50% water change, tests were: ammonia 0, nitrite 0.5, nitrate 8. I added 3/4 capful this time (instead of 1cap). Brought ammonia to 2ppm. 8 hours later,ammonia was 0, nitrite was almost 2, nitrate almost 110. I was so frustrated I did another 50% water change (since ammonia was...

OK, mattrox, and thanks a million! I was starting to doubt my test kits, so I did test my other two tanks. They tested perfectly, ammonia/nitrite 0 and very low nitrates. Should I cut down on my ammonia dose? I'm scared to put any in, because the levels were great after the water change...

I'm using Safeway brand pure ammonia. Ingredients are water and ammonium hydroxide. I just did another test (I'm getting test crazy, maybe that's part of the problem! :? ), which puts me 12 hours after my 90% water change. ammonia .25 nitrite 1.6 nitrate way up there. Should I miss the...

OK, so I took mattrox's advice and did a 90% water change. Afterwards I tested and the results were: nitrite 0.3, nitrate 8. So I dosed with a capful of ammonia, which brought it to 2.5ppm. PH went up to 7.4 Four hours later: ammonia 2, nitrite 1.6, nitrate 110, PH 7. I just know by tomorrow...

I started out on the first day with '2 capfuls' of ammonia, which brought it to about 5ppm. Once the nitrite started showing (day 7), I cut the ammonia (which I was only adding when needed to keep ammonia to about 5ppm) down to half dosage (1cap) daily. On day 18, ammonia went down to 0. The...

Since I can't find anything about what to do, I did about a 40% water change, not disturbing the gravel, and the nitrites/nitrates were still high. Tomorrow I will do the same, until I get the levels back down to more readable levels. Worse case, I slow my cycle down a little. I also cleaned the...

Out of curiousity, I just retested my tank. After 8 hrs, the ammonia I added is gone, the nitrites and nitrates still through the roof. Hopefully that means I'm not overdosing with ammonia, but I still wonder what to do with this tank :? Take the plants out, water change, clean the algae, or...

When I do my daily dose of ammonia, it brings the ammonia back up to about 3ppm, then it's gone the next day. The plants are low light, and the (33gal) tank has a 20watt Hagen Aqua-Glo in it. I know it's not much, but I have the black plastic hood that only accomodates one strip.