Nightstalker318
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Mar 26, 2016
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Hi all..
I was recently given one of these tanks for my Birthday. Tjouhht Id do something different this time and had a go at aquascaping... put in a few rocks made a few moss trees and must admit for a first attempt its a lovely looking thing ot is . I managed to do a fishless cycle in 3 weeks all water stats were spot on so I thought lets get 5 cherries and 12 small neon tetras.
2 of the cherries didnt make it the neons are fine... tjen about 2 weeks later I noticed that the cherries couldnt keep up with the waste ao I checked the stats and all was ok.. I added 4 Amanos and 3 ottos and 4 small endler guppies. Thats it no lore the tank is stocked.... then on my last pwc I took water stats...ammonia was great 0ppm but my nitrites had shot up to 5ppm ?
I have not over fed the tank, but could it be that its over stocked? I was under the presimprion that I could put in 19 small fish in there and the cleanup crew shrimp did not count... I've done 2 big water changes, one yesterday one today and the nitrite is still high... also whilst cycling the rank my nitrite test was purple..when the cycle was completed the purple turned to blu within 5 min now it starts blu but goes purple within a few mins? Thats confused me a little....
And advice is much appreciated...
I was recently given one of these tanks for my Birthday. Tjouhht Id do something different this time and had a go at aquascaping... put in a few rocks made a few moss trees and must admit for a first attempt its a lovely looking thing ot is . I managed to do a fishless cycle in 3 weeks all water stats were spot on so I thought lets get 5 cherries and 12 small neon tetras.
2 of the cherries didnt make it the neons are fine... tjen about 2 weeks later I noticed that the cherries couldnt keep up with the waste ao I checked the stats and all was ok.. I added 4 Amanos and 3 ottos and 4 small endler guppies. Thats it no lore the tank is stocked.... then on my last pwc I took water stats...ammonia was great 0ppm but my nitrites had shot up to 5ppm ?
I have not over fed the tank, but could it be that its over stocked? I was under the presimprion that I could put in 19 small fish in there and the cleanup crew shrimp did not count... I've done 2 big water changes, one yesterday one today and the nitrite is still high... also whilst cycling the rank my nitrite test was purple..when the cycle was completed the purple turned to blu within 5 min now it starts blu but goes purple within a few mins? Thats confused me a little....
And advice is much appreciated...