fishbeginner66
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Sep 1, 2012
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Hello,
To give a bit of background to my situation, basically I very naively went and bought a goldfish (1 small fantail) and a tank, to then discover the tank I had been sold was ridiculously too small for a goldfish. I then purchased a bigger tank (63L) with an inbuilt Bioflow filter and thought everything would now be hunky dory. What no one in the industry decided to tell me (and I spoke to quite a few people over the course of a couple of weeks) was the need to cycle my tank, and after my fish had been in it for a few hours, there was a massive bacterial bloom and he almost died from suffocation. Luckily, he survived and is now in his old tank while I try and sort the new one out!! I now feel places selling fish need to give people far more information, had I gone into the room 30 seconds later I'd have had a dead goldfish. From researching myself, I now understand the process behind fishless cycling and just wanted to check I am doing everything right...
After my fish almost died, I did a complete water change before beginning the cycle and the bacterial bloom happened again (before I added any ammonia, all I'd added was some gravel from his previous tank). I am on day 5 now and my ammonia readings are between 4 and 5ppm (dark green) and I am yet to have any nitrites, I am assuming this is normal as it's only day 5. My main question is will the bloom clear by itself once the cycle has properly kicked in?
Thank you to anyone who has read all of this!!
Fishbeginner66
To give a bit of background to my situation, basically I very naively went and bought a goldfish (1 small fantail) and a tank, to then discover the tank I had been sold was ridiculously too small for a goldfish. I then purchased a bigger tank (63L) with an inbuilt Bioflow filter and thought everything would now be hunky dory. What no one in the industry decided to tell me (and I spoke to quite a few people over the course of a couple of weeks) was the need to cycle my tank, and after my fish had been in it for a few hours, there was a massive bacterial bloom and he almost died from suffocation. Luckily, he survived and is now in his old tank while I try and sort the new one out!! I now feel places selling fish need to give people far more information, had I gone into the room 30 seconds later I'd have had a dead goldfish. From researching myself, I now understand the process behind fishless cycling and just wanted to check I am doing everything right...
After my fish almost died, I did a complete water change before beginning the cycle and the bacterial bloom happened again (before I added any ammonia, all I'd added was some gravel from his previous tank). I am on day 5 now and my ammonia readings are between 4 and 5ppm (dark green) and I am yet to have any nitrites, I am assuming this is normal as it's only day 5. My main question is will the bloom clear by itself once the cycle has properly kicked in?
Thank you to anyone who has read all of this!!
Fishbeginner66
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