ajwetton
Aquarium Advice Activist
My name is AJ, i'm recently getting back into aquariums with my girlfriend after taking about 15 years off. I wasn't serious about it back then but we decided to get a 20g tank to start off as we are gonna be moving and still living in apts, when I get somewhere more permanent I wanna go big as far as size goes. Tanks going through a rough spot atm, Didn't know about the nitrogen cycle when we got it and so that was an oops, all the literature said ditch your filter after every month and I now know from being on here that it was just trying to get more money out of us. Its been up about 5 weeks now and so i'm doing water changes trying to get levels in line. I bought my API master test kit and am using it every day. Just discovered Ick on top of this happening, Read about the heat method that was suggested by members when someone else posted. I've learned alot just from the forums and am now trying to not be stupid and do the research to get things sorted out as far as attempting to get the good bacteria grown and heal up my poor fish without losing any of them. As far as Ick goes i slowly brought up the temp to 84 and have reduced the water level, also went out tonight and bought an air stone to get extra O2 in the tank. Gonna keep up with my water changes and i'll keep ya posted. Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for all the advice you didn't know you were giving me. Its helping me not stress as bad knowing people have gone through it and that I can fix the mistakes I made in slightly rushing the process.