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I've got a 40 gallon breeder that I'm planning on planting. I've got eco-complete with aquarium gravel substrate and got some strange test results early on (aka nitrites on day 4). Well I'm now at 3.5 weeks and after dosing my tank to 1ppm of ammonia yesterday I got 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and...

I started cycling my tank almost 2 weeks ago with eco complete. After 4 days I was getting nitrites....everything seemed to be progressing and today the nitrites appeared to be lowering (the color on the API test went down from 5+ to between 1 and 2) but the nitrates didn't seem to be shooting...

So I'm not a beginner but it has been a while since I've had a fish tank. I've got a 40 breeder that I started cycling Sunday evening. I added 1/4 cup of ace ammonia and a pinch of ground up fish food. Needless to say the ammonia tested off the charts (teal within 30 seconds). I did almost a...

Ok, so I'm guessing the answer to this is "it depends" but how many plants should I buy initially for my new 40 gallon aquarium? The closest quality non-big-box store is 60 miles away and I get up there 1x per quarter if that so I don't want to under or over buy. I have 60/40 ecocomplete and...

Hi! I'm not entirely new to fish keeping but it has been a while since I have had a tank (my 1.5 year old betta has a 2.5 gallon tank but nothing with a filter in 4 years). My husband decided that wanted a tank with corydoras again and that the new baby would love an aquarium so we decided to...

Hi! I'm hoping y'all can give me some opinions on how to set up the first tank I've had in years. I'm really interested in people's opinions! The plan is to have a 40 gallon lightly planted tank (which may get more heavily planted depending on how the initial plants go). Stocking is going to...