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Yea I know the canisters come with the media but my hang on back filter is the same brand as my new canister filter so they both use the same bio media

Hello all! I’m switching from 2 AC 70s to the fluval fx4 on my 75 gallon African cichlid tank... the question I have is can I take all my established media and put it in my canister filter without having a mini cycle?! Thanks for the help guys!

Hello all! Currently I have an all male peacock tank. I did have 6 peacocks in my tank but my OB decided to jump out of the tank at night. :( I have cut some plexiglass to cover the 2” open spot behind my glass lid. Currently I have 5 peacocks now 1- lemon Jake 3”, 1- eureka red 4”, 1- red top...

I’m very very frustrated! My OB peacock jumped out of my tank and died. Has anyone else had this happen to them? I have a glass lid on at all times. Any ideas to keep this from happening?

Also another question... if I were to dose 4ppm ammonia that would convert to well over 5 ppm nitrite. Anything over 5ppm nitrite stalls a cycle from what I’ve been reading?

Peacock cichlids are not as aggressive as Mbuna. The reason for having an all male tank is for a couple reasons 1. It is believed that when no females are in the tank aggression goes down. 2. The males are the only ones who show color. 3. I don’t want to have to deal with fry haha

Yes I did a 75 percent water change to bring nitrates down and have been dosing 2ppm ammonia every other day. I will up it to 3-4 ppm tomorrow and do another 75 percent water change the night before I get the fish

I also must add that I have 3 bottles of prime ready for emergency’s and I also have the python no spill system so I can handle 50 percent water changes daily if needed

Thanks for the reply! You are always helpful libertybelle! The tank is a 60 gallon. I’ve been told to do 2ppm ammonia by my local fish store and I’ve heard of doing 4 ppm as well. I was told that adding 2ppm of ammonia at once will be stro enough because fish don’t produce 2ppm at once but I...

Just make sure you wash wash wash wash that pool filter sand! It took me 6 hours to wash 60 pounds!

No problem! Most of your BB lives in your filters so I think you will be good!

I think by using the old filters from your 50 gallon and the sponge Filter should be perfect

My tank can officially convert 2 ppm ammonia into nitrate in 24 hours. Can I add 6- 3” male peacocks?? I ordered them off of imperial Tropicals and won’t be here till Thursday for Friday

I have no idea and it’s very frustrating because it’s a new kit. This whole time I’m thinking I’m cycled and keep adding ammonia meanwhile my nitrites are at 10+ ppm... just did another 50 percent water change

Turns out my test kit was bad! ��

Btw I have 2 A/C 70s running along with a sponge filter so my circulation is pretty good. The tank is a 60 gallon BTW

I added some more media from my 20 gallon last night and did a 50 percent water change as well. I’ll do another 50 percent change tonight. I’ll keep adding 1 ppm ammonia because it turns it into nitrite within 12 hours and I’m hoping the extra media I added from my 20 gallon will get the nitrite...

BBradbury that’s the first time I’ve heard of that one lol Theres so many ways to cycle a tank. I added DR Tim’s ammonia to speed up the process and used some tetra safe start plus and it looked like it was working great. I also seeded the tank with some media from my sons 20 gallon tank that’s...

I’ve done the API test everyday for 3 days now and it still shows 0.... I don’t get it. I was about to shell out 250 dollars for fish from imperial Tropicals tomorrow but now I’m hesitant... I ordered another nitrite kit on amazon and it’s coming tomorrow so I will use another test... maybe my...

So I thought my tank was pretty much cycled. I’m able to convert 2pp ammonia to nitrate in 24 hours according to my api master test kit. However I decided to double check in and bought some tetra test strips just to compare the 2 and the strips are showing 10+ ppm nitrite??? That’s a big...

I’m getting a reading of 40-80 ppm nitrate from my tap water! Any ideas? Yes I did the test right I know the tests are tricky for the nitrates. Btw it’s a api master teal kit

My nitrates are through the roof 160 plus should I do a water change to get them down? I’ve heard it can or can’t crash a cycle

My tank is finally cycled after 2 weeks. I used DR Tim’s ammonia and tetra safe start plus and it worked! BUT I’m ordering peacocks cichlids off of imperial Tropicals the only problem is I can’t order until next week!! It will be a $300 dollar order so I can’t do it this week it has to be next...

Cycle your tank!

Is he getting picked on by other fish? Could be due to stress