TheJT
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It's a 10. I'm having to do a fish in cycle and I will never do another. I have lost so many fish.
cycling and stocking my new five gallon
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RGV-CSW
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Where did the nitrAtes go?
I don't know... but the nitrate test came out yellow, and on the chart for different levels, yellow is 0. I do have a moss ball in there... there is also some moss/algae (I don't know which one)growing in different places, like directly on the led lights.
librarygirl
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I looked at the previous page and on the 24th you had a little ammonia, some nitrite and nitrate. Between then and today have you not re-dosed with fish food? If your are only at the place where the tank is every few days and you can't re-dose properly there's a good chance you may have starved the bacteria.
Add more fish food (I'm not liking this method for you, I think pure ammonia would be much more accurate) and try to get the ammonia up to 2. Then wait 24 hours and see what happens.
librarygirl said:
I have been redosing, like I would normally feed the fish in my ten gallon. I put in a lot of food before I went to my dads. When I got back I put un a normal amount. And I am still doing it to make sure its cycled.
tarpon
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I'm reading! I just dont know the answer
librarygirl
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I'm reading
I dont' really think you should be trying to breed anything in a 5 gallon. Plus I'm concerned that it seems like the house with the tank in it is one that you are not at all the time (correct me if I'm wrong). For the 5 gallon, first, I'm not sure it's cycled I'm highly suspect of the method you're using, but you seem to think it might be. I suspect if you put fish in there you're going to have ammonia and you're going to need to be doing daily water changes, or at least be ready and around to do them and I don't think you're going to.
And I'm also concerned that your other fish are not being properly maintained and cared for, and you have other fish that need better living conditions (I've said this before, but those Bettas in 1 gal bowls/tanks is not good and your goldfish needs a much bigger home, not to mention weekly water changes for all of them). But you don't want to put a Betta in the 5 gal. So I'm not really sure what else to say, you're probably going to do what you want to and then ask for help if your fish start dying.
librarygirl said:I'm reading
For the 5 gallon, first, I'm not sure it's cycled I'm highly suspect of the method you're using, but you seem to think it might be. I suspect if you put fish in there you're going to have ammonia and you're going to need to be doing daily water changes, or at least be ready and around to do them and I don't think you're going to.
And I'm also concerned that your other fish are not being properly maintained and cared for, and you have other fish that need better living conditions (I've said this before, but those Bettas in 1 gal bowls/tanks is not good and your goldfish needs a much bigger home, not to mention weekly water changes for all of them). But you don't want to put a Betta in the 5 gal. So I'm not really sure what else to say, you're probably going to do what you want to and then ask for help if your fish start dying.
What? Lol! I don't have a goldfish! I have one betta in a one gallon. I had a nitrite spike just after I got back to my moms house. I think I have said this before, but I have a ten gallon tank as well. I have some guppies and other fish in there right now. It will be used as an adult guppy tank. So I am using two tanks from breeding.
librarygirl
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Sorry, I must be getting posts mixed up, but I think I remember your 10 was overstocked. Did you have a nitrite spike on the 5 gal again? If so I wouldn't add anything yet.
librarygirl
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I'm not a stocking expert by any means, but I did some research and if you were going to keep any in that tank it could only be 1 with no other fish and even 5 gals for 1 could not be enough room. You could ask around here though for a better concensus, but I wouldn't just go with the first answer you get just b/c it's the one you want to hear or else you could end up with a lot of dead fish
librarygirl said:I'm not a stocking expert by any means, but I did some research and if you were going to keep any in that tank it could only be 1 with no other fish and even 5 gals for 1 could not be enough room. You could ask around here though for a better concensus, but I wouldn't just go with the first answer you get just b/c it's the one you want to hear or else you could end up with a lot of dead fish
I have been researching a lot. Many sources say that I can. But many say I can't. But I want more than one fish in there. So I will probably go with sparkling gouramis or some type of annual killifish.
