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New tank hobbiest, animal rescue (2 dogs: doberman and huskymix, 3 cats: ragdoll, american shorthair
- Location
- Ontario Canada
- Occupation
- Business owner, owns and operates Ottawa Unleashed
- My Tanks
- 10 gallon tropical tank
I currently use gravel and a layer of bigger pebbles for the substrate. It's planted with live plants, I've got a star rotala, spiralus, reinekii, money wort and hornwort. They were planted in the cycle stage. Cycle took approx 14 days... I've have levels of 0-20 nitrate, 0 nitrite, water hardness is approx 80-120, alkalinity is approx 90-150, and PH is 7-7.5ish, I added my fish a few days after. I have three black skirted tetras who are doing amazing, they school lovely. I have 1 yellow cobra guppy who unfortunately lost its mate (for some reason 12 hours after I brought it home it died, I'm assuming it wasn't feeling good from the get go because my other cobra is thriving) and I have 1 blue dwarf gouramis who is taking a bit more time to get used to the tank. He seems to be the only "stress" case. Oh and a mystery snail, who is awesome.
Tank sits at 78 degrees, I have a lovely LED that is on for 8-10 hours everyday and a air stone that's on 24/7