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I went away for four days over the weekend and my house mate very kindly fed my fish for me. Unfortunately she put enough food in there to feed a shark and when I got back there was a weird creamy sludge over the everything, an ammonia reading approaching 8.0 and the fish were gasping at the...

I just spent nine weeks cycling a 5 gallon planted aquarium. When the cycle completed it was able to process 3ppm of household ammonia in 24 hours. I ran it like this for five days and then stocked it with two Amano shrimp and two male Platy fish. My water parameters were and still are: 0%...

I have a 25 litre freshwater tank which I found when moving house. I started a fishless cycle on 18th of September and intended to put one Oranda goldfish and a shrimp in it (I know that doesn't sound very exciting, but I found the tank when I was moving house. It seemed a shame to throw it out...