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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...

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'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?

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...