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Not yet, I plan on moving my shrimp & tetras once it's cycled

Hi everyone, I've had a small 12gallon tank set up for 5 ish years with plants and fish/shrimp and yesterday I brought home my new 32gallon! I added dirty sponges, some bio beads + I got bio beads from a friend from her tank. I will start testing the water today but wondered what to expect in...

Hi, I have white spot tetras, pygmy corys and a betta. I have a friend who swears in giving her fish veggies and I tried to read online but get mixed info. I know mine adored the cooked and peeled pea I smushed up for them, is this something I should give once a week to all of them? is 1 pea...

Hi, I did the fishless cycle with pure ammonia and finished and stocked my tank over 2 days. 15 gallon, 1 betta, 4 pgymy corys, 6 white spot tetras, 5 king blue tetras How often do you recommend testing all parameters? my last test was 24hrs ago, and today's gave me this: ammonia seems to be...

Hi, We got 6 pygmy salt and pepper corys, 1 betta, 6 white spot tetras and 5 king blue tetras! Now how often should I check my water for everything? I just tested and my ammonia seems to be between 0 and .25, nitrite at 0 and nitrate at 10. Does this seem so far so good?

thanks :) I'll do another one tomorrow early morning.. Nervous too much WC and I'll screw up my cycle :S We're going to stock with 2 cory's and 5-6 tetras to start (probably black skirt) Suggestions welcome! :)

I have a 15g, finished my cycle, did the final conversion test and then did a pretty big water change, approx 75%, because of all my plants etc it was hard to remove more. So I added new water (with prime) tested nitrate, was still too high (40ppm) so I removed more water, added more water with...

If I just finished cycling my tank and it's 100% ready to go, can I add Cory's right away? Thanks :)

I brought water to my friends house and we tested all parameters (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) and indeed the nitrate was over 80 on her test kit, mine was showing between 0 and 5. The other parameters all matched so I will be going to buy a new nitrate test. Thanks for all your advice!

Sorry, 1st test showed 30ppm, 2nd test showed around 10 and the 3rd stayed at 0...thats when I knew I either did something wrong or test is just no good...

I usually shake each test bottle a bit (even for ammonia etc) so I'm pretty sure I did today as it's out of habit now, so I'm really not sure why it would do that :( I'll test it again tonight making sure to shake bottle1, invert tube several times, shake bottle2 30 seconds and the whole tube 1...

yeah that's we do, I called my aquarium store and the manager said it could be pure ammonia that I added prior, but also could be a bad test bottle.. we'll see tonight, I'm going to borrow my friends :)

Don't worry, no offense taken... lol I was SURE it was me doing something wrong, I did the test 3 times and kept reading the instructions, I even had my boyfriend to the test in case it was me... but still nothing consistent :( I'll probably ask to borrow my friends test kit (she has a diff...

I'm cycling my tank (fishless) and at the point where I am testing nitrates, and I am getting varied results even a few minutes apart. For example, today I tested it at it looked like it was at 30, meanwhile my ammonia had dropped to .5 overnight so I added more ammonia, and then tested nitrate...

I guess you could say I'm 1/2 way through my fishless cycle, but I'm starting to get discouraged, lol I test my water early morning and in the evening, nitrites have been through the roof for 4 days, ammonia keeps dropping every time I test it (so I redose it) and nitrate was slowly rising. I...

Has anyone used almond leaves to lower the PH of their tank?

Thanks! I did the water change. If they drop it means I'm on the end of the cycle, and if they rise the cycle is not there yet?

Water change? My nitrites are now too high to test but nitrate still on chart, do I do a 50% water change? Thx :)

started my cycle a week ago, and Sunday I finally managed to add seeding material from a friends tank (a really dirty sponge and bio beads!!) nitrites finally showed up on my test kit yesterday and increased again today! I tested nitrates for fun and they already showed up too, at 5ppm.. is...