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It was honestly probably the ammo levels... Anything over 0.25 is lethal to fish. Be sure to do large water changes a lot more frequently. Are you using strips or a liquid test kit?

I tend to agree with finfan. If I could buy a massive, heavily planted tank with hundreds of guppies that would make hundreds of guppy fry, I would. But the fact is that that's not something that's really attainable for most people. I'm a full-time student, and I don't think it's fair to my...

Whoopsies. You're right. 0 nitrite, 15 nitrate. Silly cell phone.

Hi, all! Just a few facts about my fish tank: I have a cycled 10g that had four male guppies in it. Water parameters are 0 ammo, 0 nitrate, 15 nitrite. Recently, one of my fish died. He was blind from what I believe to be ammonia burns from the lfs. I tried to feed him in many ways, but...

I did a water change. The rest of my fish seem more sad without Apollo... I'm just imagining that, right?

By new one, I mean another fish. Three guppies in a ten gallon seems like one too few.. It is a sad day.

Hey, all. Unfortunately, a couple of weeks after learning that my fish was blind, he died today of malnourishment. The other fish are fine, though probably a bit scarred.. I think he died last night when I was asleep. I already gave him a porcelain funeral. Apollo will be remembered. Poor guy...

Hey, all. I posted the other day about my guppy being lethargic. However, today I decided to test whether or not he was blind due to my boyfriend's suggestion. He doesn't know when things are in front of him, bumps into his friends and the glass, and drifts toward the corners and bottom of the...

I fully understand that this is a repeat of the things many others have said, but DON'T BOIL HIM. If the fish is not tropical, this is the best way. But angelfish are tropical, so the most humane way is freezing. There is a sticky at the top of this forum describing it, but essentially you...

Hey, guys. I'm not sure if anythjng is wrong with my guppy, but I just want to make sure. I have a 10g tank with three other very happy and healthy guppies that I got a few weeks ago. I cycled my tank beforehand and my water parameters are: ammo 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 10ish. Temp is at about 70...

Logically, I understand that I've cycled the tank and that I'm testing the water every day. Intellectually, I understand that my fish are probably fine and just swimming away like little maniacs and trying to rocket out of the tank and that they don't care if I have 5 ppm nitrates. But every...

This is a picture of them being all huddled up. Is my tank under stocked and js that causing them discomfort? I want my fishies to be as happy as possible, so I wanted minimal fish so they could swim around and be happy.. I have live plants and a hiding spot by my filter. I'm so worried. I just...

Very new fish owner here. I have four guppies in a ten gallon. After two months of cycling, I got them last night. Now I have the problem that both my fish and I scare the heck out of each other. Like when I go to feed them, they all run and hide and are auper afraid of me. It's not uncommon...

Will it kill all of my good bacteria if I do a 100% water change though? I'm really nervous about it because I've worked so hard for two months that I don't want to mess it up..

It's not my test kit, either. I did a control test where I tested water that I knew had no nitrites in it. It read zero, as expected. So it's not my test kit or any of my water changing supplies. It's something in the tank. How long until the bacteria that turn ammonia into nitrites die? I'm...

What do I do? (Sorry, post went wacky before I could add that.)

Hey, y'all. Long story short, I've been cycling my tank for over two months now. I diligently add ammonia. I take readings all the time with my API master test kit. But my tank defies the laws of chemistry. I have had a nitrite spike forever. I've done more water changes than you could...

Agreed! Thanks a ton!

Hey, guys. I have a bit of an unusual case. I started cycling with fish food because I didn't have access to plain ammonia. After a month of a whole lot of nothing happening and my ammonia not increasing more than 0.25 no matter how many fish flakes I added or how long I waited, I made the...

Would it overload my tank if I got four guppies and a mystery snail?

Cycling a tank is when you add ammonia to a tank (sometimes with fish in it, but usually fish less) for about four to six weeks to allow beneficial bacteria to grow. These bacteria will transform harmful ammonia and nitrites to less harmful substances so that when you add fish to the water, they...

I've been using goldfish food because the only places that sell pure ammonia in my area are over an hour away and much more expensive than it is worth, and I don't know if I trust buying it online. I kind of want schooling fish, but again, I don't know if that would work in a ten gallon tank...

tl;dr: Should I have high nitrites but little ammonia when doing a fishless cycle? What fish are suitable for a ten-gallon tank? Hey, y'all. So, long story short, I was bedridden with bronchitis about a month ago and my boyfriend bought me a fish. Because of our lack of research, Derpy 1.0...

Oops, I lied. It's normal Ellebogen. I don't exactly know what to say here except for the fact that any regular members of this forum will probably often see panicked posts from me about how I'm afraid my fish might be dying because one of them swam at me wrong. I'm eighteen and very new to...