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We just finished a fishless cycle. Friday morning we bought 6 head and tailight tetras for the tank. They have been fine until this morning. I got up and counted them to find one dead and another dying. The rest are no longer swimming in a group. 29 gallon long Temp: 77° Ammo: 0ppm No2: 0ppm...

I am currently cycling my daughters 29 gallon tank and am looking for a larger tank for myself. I'm thinking 55 gallon plus, whatever I find that size or larger. While my daughters tank is what you would expect from a 10 year old, red, white and blue gravel, no fishing sign, sunken ship, plastic...

We are 18 days into our fishless cycle. I noticed today that there is some clumping grey algea looking material forming on some of the surfaces in the tank. Is this a problem?

My daughter and I are running our first fishless cycle. We started on 4-13 so today is day 14. Our current levels are: Ammonia 4ppm, Nitrite 2.0ppm, Nitrate 5.0ppm, pH 7.6, Temp 78. We started with an initial concentration of 4ppm ammonia as indicated by the API freshwater master test kit. With...

Introducing myself here. I am JB's dad. JB is my 10 year old daughter Julia, aka June Bug, aka JB for short. We are new to aquariums and have started a fishless cycle of a 29 gallon long. I am an avid gardener and am the administrator of my own website and forum (gardening related of course). I...