Bigeasy 125
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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Hello All,
I am brand new to the forum and need advise please. To give you some background, I have a 37 gallon freshwater and it is currently stocked with about 20 inhabitants. I am not using live plants but do have plastic ones. As far as substrate, I am using sand. This tank was initially set up fishless back in March. I installed a Marineland Pro 275 with prefilter sponge on inlet. Just went through a severe algae bloom and got that cleared up. I changed all the filters and media plus a 50 percent water change. I added a new internal filter with sponges and biological media. Being new to this hobby and after reading up on water care, I see now that I was wrong to just replace all the filtration, especially not rinsing them in aquarium water. I think I am going through a mini cycle. Water parameters are ammonia is 1ppm, nitrate is 20ppm, nitrite is 1ppm, alkalinity is 300, hardness is 75ppm, and ph is 7.8. water temp is around 79 degrees. None of my fish have died and they are swimming vibrantly. I did cut back feeding to every other day. Can anyone provide any advice for my situation. Also I did treat tap water during water changes. Thanks in advance.
I am brand new to the forum and need advise please. To give you some background, I have a 37 gallon freshwater and it is currently stocked with about 20 inhabitants. I am not using live plants but do have plastic ones. As far as substrate, I am using sand. This tank was initially set up fishless back in March. I installed a Marineland Pro 275 with prefilter sponge on inlet. Just went through a severe algae bloom and got that cleared up. I changed all the filters and media plus a 50 percent water change. I added a new internal filter with sponges and biological media. Being new to this hobby and after reading up on water care, I see now that I was wrong to just replace all the filtration, especially not rinsing them in aquarium water. I think I am going through a mini cycle. Water parameters are ammonia is 1ppm, nitrate is 20ppm, nitrite is 1ppm, alkalinity is 300, hardness is 75ppm, and ph is 7.8. water temp is around 79 degrees. None of my fish have died and they are swimming vibrantly. I did cut back feeding to every other day. Can anyone provide any advice for my situation. Also I did treat tap water during water changes. Thanks in advance.