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I do not have the full test kit. I have the liquid test for ammonia. I just tested the ammonia and it's at 0 ppm right now.

My snail is a zebra nerite. I do have a small 1.5 gallon tank I can move the snail to. What do you think would be the easiest way to prepare the 5 gallon for another fish? I tried to do a fishless cycle on my 5 gallon with ammonia, but I wasn't very successful. I feel nervous about trying to...

My betta that I've had for 14 months just died yesterday. I am pretty sure he died of dropsy. He became suddenly ill, stopped eating, and had pinecone scales. :( What do I do now? I still have an aquatic snail and a live amazon sword plant in the tank (5 gallon). I know very little about how to...

Fishanatic, sorry this may be a dumb question, but should I test the tap water before or after adding my declorinator? I have tested it before adding declorinator, and it has .25 ammonia in it. Others on this forum told me this shouldn't be too much of a problem. The tap water has a ph of 6.0...

Yes, I forgot to mention. I bought a filter that said it was suitable for 5 gallon tanks.

I am trying to do a fishless cycle of a 5 gallon aquarium. I have a heater set at 80 degrees and a few live plants in there. It's my first time cycling an aquarium. I followed the instructions from the pinned article on this website, which was very helpful, but I seemed to get stuck on the last...

I have the API liquid test for ammonia. I guess I should go out and get the liquid tests for the other things too. I dosed it up to 2 ppm ammonia. 24 hours later, the ammonia tested to be .25 ppm. A day later, it's STILL .25 ppm. And actually, I think I may have found the problem. I just...

Thank you for your advice. Sorry for my late reply. I did a major water change, and dosed the ammonia up to 2 ppm. 24 hours later, it was .25 ppm. Should I keep dosing up to 2 ppm until it tests 0 ppm of ammonia in 24 hours? Do you think one of my problems may have been my tests? Before I was...

I've been cycling my 5 gallon aquarium for many weeks. I'm doing a fishless cycle using pure janitorial ammonia, according to the guide posted on this forum: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f15/the-almost-complete-guide-and-faq-to-fishless-cycling-148283.html I followed all the steps and...

Thanks for your reply, BettaGal. I'm using Bettasafe as a conditioner for my tap water. I just tested the ph of the regular tap water and it's also 6.0. I haven't been using any plant food for the plant because I didn't know I should be using plant food for it. It seemed to be thriving (aside...

Just this morning I noticed a chunk missing from my betta's tail. The tail also looks really ragged and torn. I'm really disappointed because my betta has had trouble with fin rot in the past, and he seemed like he was just about to fully get over it. About three months ago he tore his fin on a...