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Has anyone experienced this? I'm planning to do a 50% water change tomorrow, but since the day 2 the water in the tank is really quite cloudy. I checked the parameters and everything is good (ammonia 0ppm / nitrites 0ppm / nitrates 10ppm). I'm premixing/dissolving the No Planaria before adding...

Can aquarium planaria be harmful to humans? Can aquarium planaria be harmful to humans? Last night I noticed some (am pretty sure they are planaria, but might be rhabdocoela, I ordered a magnifying glass to try and confirm) on the glass of my 10 gallon tank. The other day, without thinking I...

So for two days in a row my 10 gallon tank has been able to turn 4ppm of ammonia to 0ppm and nitrites are 0ppm as well. Today I am planning on doing a big 90% water change. Once I do the water change, do I add 1ppm ammonia if I plan to stock the tank in about 24 hours?

September 11: 24 hours later and PH (6.7) AMM (1.5); NO2 (0); NO3 (10) I did a 60% water change and boosted the AMM. Current stats are PH (7.2) AMM (4.0)

Just checked my water. SEPTEMBER 10: PH (6.8); AMM (1); NO2 (0); NO2 (5) time for a 50% water change? Edit- just did a 50% water change and the PH is back to 7.3 and loaded the AMM back to 4 ppm; will report back in 24 hours

I think I am at the tail end of a fishless cycle of a ten gallon tank, but I don't understand what's currently happening right now. I am about 8 or 9 weeks in. About 3 weeks ago I did a big 60% water change when the NO2 and NO3 were getting high. I am using Prime (2 drops per gallon). After the...

Thanks! I have a great freshwater store near me and they gave me two large sponges from their tanks. I removed the biomax and charcoal from the HOB and replaced that with the sponge from the store, no now my filter is half my original sponge, and half the store sponge. I checked my levels after...

Thank you. So just keep on trucking? The ammonia staying static at 2ppm for many days isn't worrisome? I have HOB filter and stupidly put in the mesh bag of charcoal. When I grab some used sponge from the store I'll take that mesh bag out and replace it with an equal amount of sponge form the...

On July 10 I started a fishless cycle of a 10 gallon tank from scratch. I'm doing everything by the book. Using 2 drops of Prime per gallon of water. I started off by adding ammonia to 4ppm. Once I saw it dip to 1ppm a few days later I brought it back up to 3-4 ppm. By end of July I was seeing...