Recent content by Kumi-Moor

Numbers after 50% additional WC Hi All, Thank you. You've been so helpful so far. Just a few more questions. Last night I did the 90% WC and found out I had .25-.5ppm ammonia in my tap water and an hour after the tank showed traces of nitrite. My nitrate readings were also high still so this...

Double *@#! Here are my tap water readings as of 9:30pm: Ammonia .5ppm Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 or just a trace, not dark enough to be 5ppm PH 7.4-7.6 When I just tested my tank a second time there was .25ppm of Nitrite as well as .5ppm of ammonia. What is going on? All I did was change the water...

Hi everyone, I have done my 90% WC. I tested before I did the change: 0 Ammonia, 0 nitrite and 160ppm Nitrate After I did a 90% WC: .25-.5 ammonia, 0 nitrite and 20-40 Nitrate. !!!!! Does this mean i have ammonia in my water? Stupid me. I didn't realize this. I have used Prime. Is it true that...

Hi all, My black moor is currently in a 5 gallon. We were sold this tank for 2 goldfish. We lost one at 6 months. The first time we did a fish in cycle because we didn't know any better and added Stability which they told us would solve the problem. I have struggled with keeping the tank stable...

Thanks everyone for the tips! To give some background. Its a lightly planted tank, 29 gallons with rocks and big gravel. I took the filter from my current tank and put it in the filter chamber on the new one and when I clean the other tank take the filter swishings and put them in too. I used...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I am on day 21 of a fish-less cycle of a 29 gallon tank. Yesterday for the first time, my ammonia readings were O, Nitrite 0 but Nitrate is also 0 yesterday and today too. Could this be because I just did a 60% WC 2 days ago? I tested twice and very...

I'm not sure what kind of plant it is (newbie, and all). I wanted something tall and upright that the fish could easily swim around and wouldn't spread out. It has long thin blade like leaves and is very tall. it seems to be sending out a bloom of some sort on a long thin stem. The aquarium...

I'm a new member-fishless cycle update I have a 5 gallon tank that we got when Kumi was the size of my thumb. Being newbies, I had no idea that it was much too small. Kumi is growing at a staggering rate and I starting doing some reading and realized bigger was better as far as tank size goes...

I'm a new member-fishless cycle update Hi, Good news on the fish-less cycling front! At day 10 my ammonia is on the way down and nitrites on the way up. Yay. I thought I had screwed up. It even appears that some of the plants I thought I had fried with too much ammonia, are sprouting new...

Hi, I'm a new member and could use a pep talk. I've just started my first fish-less cycle and I am discouraged. I started out adding too much ammonia and had to do a large water change when I realized the ammonia was too high. I feel like I have wasted time and I am discouraged. I am cycling a...