Dragonmommy
Aquarium Advice Regular
Help! I am getting so tired of water changes, why wont this tank cycle?
Its a 55 gallon long with 10 young lake malawi's in it. The tank has been running for 5 weeks now and still only ammonia and lots of it. No nitrates or nitrites. I have not lost any fish, but its obvious the ammonia isnt great for them. 1 Fish keeps getting pop-eye so I have decided to just leave her in the hospital tank till the big tank cycles. I think the hospital tank is cycled, its fine though. I have tried putting gravel from the hospital tank in the big tank and it didnt help. I cant swap filter media because the hossy tank only has undergravel filtration.
Really I am just not sure what to do. The only friend with a tank has some funky fungus problems, so I dont want his used filter media. I just don;t know anymore. Help!!!
Thanks
Its a 55 gallon long with 10 young lake malawi's in it. The tank has been running for 5 weeks now and still only ammonia and lots of it. No nitrates or nitrites. I have not lost any fish, but its obvious the ammonia isnt great for them. 1 Fish keeps getting pop-eye so I have decided to just leave her in the hospital tank till the big tank cycles. I think the hospital tank is cycled, its fine though. I have tried putting gravel from the hospital tank in the big tank and it didnt help. I cant swap filter media because the hossy tank only has undergravel filtration.
Really I am just not sure what to do. The only friend with a tank has some funky fungus problems, so I dont want his used filter media. I just don;t know anymore. Help!!!
Thanks