nightswake
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hello everyone so I recently got a 10 gal tank Its my fist tank and the LFS sure got me.. so I bought the tank filled and dechlorinated and way overstocked so needless to say I lost a few fish and returned a lot more after I read a bit online. so now I have had the tank for 10 days I have been doing 25% water changes everyday I have 2 neon tetras 2 mickey mouse platys 2 guppys 4 zebra danios and 2 ghost shrimp I think its still overstocked but I cant return anymore fish to petsmart I have test strips for ammonia and one with 5 thins like ph hardness alkalinity nitrite and nitrate...
so I read about cycling and I have been testing the water is at like 3 of ammonia and I haven't got any nitrites or nitrates yet how long b4 I start to get the bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrite? I didn't seed the tank with any filter media cause this is my first one ever and I had no idea about cycling
also I found baby fish in the tank yesterday so after watching two get eaten I got a cup and used a turkey baster to catch the babies and I put them in the cup went to petsmart got a fish cage thingy and now I have babies in the fish cage with the mickey mouse platy I looked online and the babies looked like those.. think I can raise the babies ( I crushed up flake food and they ate some) anyways thank you for reading my long post hope you can make sense out of it
ps.. I have pics just figuring out how to post them
so I read about cycling and I have been testing the water is at like 3 of ammonia and I haven't got any nitrites or nitrates yet how long b4 I start to get the bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrite? I didn't seed the tank with any filter media cause this is my first one ever and I had no idea about cycling
also I found baby fish in the tank yesterday so after watching two get eaten I got a cup and used a turkey baster to catch the babies and I put them in the cup went to petsmart got a fish cage thingy and now I have babies in the fish cage with the mickey mouse platy I looked online and the babies looked like those.. think I can raise the babies ( I crushed up flake food and they ate some) anyways thank you for reading my long post hope you can make sense out of it
ps.. I have pics just figuring out how to post them