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More tank parameters Temperature ~80 (purposely elevated due to ick), Ammonia 0.25 (even after 3 PWC), Nitrite is 0, Nitrate 0, and PH is 7.8.

My molly has several white spots on her tail and dorsal fin. So I began treating for ICK, but now I wonder whether I jump the gun and started treatment too quickly. The fish is black so white spots stand out quite well. Some of them also have depth (raised like a pimple). The other fish...

Isiah1820 You say it is not ick. Why? What caused you to change your mind? On Thursday, after doing a pwc, I noticed my molly (all black) had several white spots on her tail and along the dorsal fin. I don't remember the molly ever having these white spots before. The spots also appear...

Re: plants and lights Rivercats - I did the Ph test after allowing the water to aerate for 24 hours and it is 8. On the light question, are you saying that this light will be hard on plants? Also I started adding the salt after one of the molly's died. It says molly's do better with salt...

Lighting and More Sorry .. I noticed your name is Rivercats not rats. :facepalm: Ok, just tested the PH of the tap, but did not aerate for 24 hour because I had not read your reply until now. So I will re-test; though the PH was very high. Also on the bottle of API PHdown, it does say hard...

Lighting and more Thanks RiverRats Today I noticed the PH has risen to 8.0. What could be causing the PH to rise? I did a 50% PWC (ammonia was at 0.75 now down to .3 or .4). The one fish that seem stressed was the Molly and that was AFTER I did the PWC. Can changing the water affect the PH...

It is day 15 of getting my tank started (:fish2:in cycle). I am having a lot of trouble stabilizing my tank. The PH this morning rose to 7.8 and ammonia level rose to almost 1.0.:banghead: I also tested nitrite levels and each time it was 0, like the tank has no good bacteria whatsoever. So...

Day 14 Hi all It is day 14 of getting my tank started. No more fish have died and I have done 2 PWC (50%). I purchased an API freshwater master test kit. The ammonia levels still are too high. It was 1.0 this morning and so I did PWC. Lastly the ph is 7.6 and is a bit higher than I'd...

RE: Postmortem fort384 Thank you for the advice. :thanks: I already read a similar article to that one. The only difference being I thought one had no choice but to use "live fish" to cycle the tank. This article suggests that one can use chemicals to do this. My question to its author is...

I just started my tank, 11 days ago. The first day I just ran the filter and bubble thing all day just to let the water stabilize. The second day I added 2 fish: a black molly and a dalmatian molly. The black molly was very shy :hide:and would hide behind things, but the dalmatian molly was...