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I kinda of thought in the back of my mind that eventually this guy would need a pond. It is unbelievable how big he has become in just a year. I would like to smack my kid for buying him and thinking he could live in a bowl in her dorm. That is actually how I acquired because I was not about to...

Another upgrade is depressing to hear!!! I could actually exchange it out at this point since nothing has been opened yet. I must have read size guidelines for a type of goldfish other than comet. How big are we talking? 50? 100?

Thanks for the reply. That was honestly my first thought of how to do things but here was my concern; This will probably sound really silly but, I know the 100B is not enough (filter size wise) for the 30 gallon and using the 2 of them on the new tank will be ideal regardless so the question...

I am upgrading from a cycled 10 gallon to a 30 gallon. The current filter on the 10 gallon is a Marineland Penguin 100B which is states its for 100 GPH and for use up to 20 gallons. The new filter is the same brand 200B it is 200 GPH and for use up to 50 gallons (according to the manufacturers...

Disregard this post please. The issue has cleared up and the fish is now pooping like normal :)

My goldfish was recently moved to a new tank that finished cycling. When he/she was moved, the poop looked fine and totally normal (same color as food being fed, normal size). Last night and today, I noticed it was pooping clear. I would not call it stringy but it certainly is not as thick as it...

Got the pH to exactly 6.7 and will start working up from there. I imagine by the time I am cutting in larger amounts of tap, it should give the water decent buffers because I believe it is quite hard. Kind of crazy that my choices are either one extreme or the other. Makes me want to consider RO...

Was not sure if I should start a new thread or see if I can get some responses here first since there is already a lot of important information in the initial post. I am now fully cycled and am getting ready to do my major water change right before introducing the fish. I will be using the...

I did indeed do a rather large water change (around 90%) when I realized that both the nitrites and nitrates were off the charts and the pH was in danger of falling below 6.5 which I knew would slow things down. It's hard to say if that or the difference of a day allowed for the nitrites to pick...

Amazingly the nitrites actually did go down quite a bit within the last 12 hours since I tested. It's not quite at 0 yet but after the 24 hour mark my results were 0 ammonia, somewhere between .5 and 1.0 nitrites and 80 nitrates so I was happy to see it headed in the right direction. Hoping this...

Got it! Thanks so much for the great advice.

Are you saying I should re-dose at 1ppm even if its less than 24 hours?

LOL!!! Out of curiosity I performed a couple tests at what would be the 12 hour mark. Ammonia is down to .5 from 4ppm. Nitrites were not off the charts but were pretty close looking to the 5ppm mark. Nitrates were at 80ppm. I somehow doubt the nitrites are going to hit the 0 mark in the next 12...

According to my notes, the pH drop occurred within a 21 hour period from 7.4 to 6.4. As soon as I noticed the drop, I went for the 50% PWC to restore the buffers so it is entirely likely it was slowed significantly sometime within those 21 hours. After my PWC I was back up to 7.2 so I don't...

Glad to know im not alone Thumper! Thanks once again for all the help Mebbid. So darn anxious to get that fish in there lol!

When you say ignore the nitrates, were you meaning nitrites? It isn't the nitrates that are concerning me, it is the nitrites. I want to be able to process the 4ppm ammonia without having any nitrites being tested either to consider my cycle complete correct? I think what you are saying is to...

Over the last 24 hours I finally processed all 4ppm of ammonia. The nitrites were still reading very high at least 5. I did another PWC I would say about 90 percent because I had another drop in pH (not quite so dramatic this time). I added my prime and am waiting to run another test to see how...

I am on day 19 of my fishless cycle on a 10 gallon tank. I used a ton of seeding material and up until now, I have not had a single nitrite reading. 4ppm ammonia was taking about 36 hours to get down to .5-1.0. In the meantime, I had tons of nitrates so I knew I was on the right track despite my...

I am on day 16 of my 10 gallon fishless cycle. I am close to being complete but not quite there because I am not yet processing the ammonia in a 24 hour period. It is more like within 36 hours. Additionally, I have no nitirite readings ever. I guess because of my seeding material, my cycle went...

Thanks Rivercats! This is exciting to hear. I think I might be approaching the finish line soon!

I am using Seachem Prime. I did my initial dose to treat the full volume and for water changes, I am dosing the volume of the water to be added prior to putting it in the tank. This is what I gathered was correct from the instructions on the bottle but I have read that others treat the full tank...

I am on day 9 of my fishless cycle of my 10 gallon tank. The tank was decently seeded with the sponge filter from an active cycled 5 gallon, about a cup and a half of gravel and all decorative plants and items that were in the 5 gallon. I am a little baffled by my test results thus far and am...

I noticed today the foam looks quite a bit different than it did yesterday. The pics from yesterday were taken after I had already tried to scoop it out so it seems it dissipated into a nice thin line covering the length of the front of the tank and a small amount on the side of the tank. Today...

This was my initial thought too. Especially by the way it is not happening around the entire edge. The bubbles do seem to be directly in line with where the airation ends up hitting the surface. I will keep my eye on it and see if it is something that continues just in those areas or if it...

Up until today I have not noticed any issues of foam gathering at the edges of the surface. Over the past 2 days, I have removed crushed coral and left it out completely. I have also done a 25% water change and a 50% water change to try and get my pH levels in a desirable range for the fishless...