Kuriuskitten
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Backstory: 29g, sand substrate, moderately planted.
Started cycling with seachem stability. One week fishless. 2nd week with 5 danios. 3rd week added 2 opaline gourami and 6 ghost shrimp.
Up until I added the gourami my water parameters were looking good. I had no nitrates and very low nitrites. That's why I added gourami.
Now it's like a bomb dropped. My nitrates are way up, still under 40ppm, but nitrites are sky high. I started doing large water changed. 50-75% every other day. No changes. So I bought some seachem safe and different bacteria starter.
Slowly all ghost shrimp have died, but everyone else seems fine.
What do I do? Keep dosing Safe and let cycling catch up? Keep trying water changes with little result? Both?
Started cycling with seachem stability. One week fishless. 2nd week with 5 danios. 3rd week added 2 opaline gourami and 6 ghost shrimp.
Up until I added the gourami my water parameters were looking good. I had no nitrates and very low nitrites. That's why I added gourami.
Now it's like a bomb dropped. My nitrates are way up, still under 40ppm, but nitrites are sky high. I started doing large water changed. 50-75% every other day. No changes. So I bought some seachem safe and different bacteria starter.
Slowly all ghost shrimp have died, but everyone else seems fine.
What do I do? Keep dosing Safe and let cycling catch up? Keep trying water changes with little result? Both?