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Been posting a lot on this section for help, so sorry in advance lol. Tank parameters off the bat: Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10-20PPM
I recently finished cycling my tank, and added 4 danios last Thursday. Drip acclimated for roughly an hour before adding them to my tank. One of the four was...
You can go ahead and fill it up with water and have everything running, filter, heater, etc. It'll be completely fine.
You do however need to find ammonia, make sure its pure ammonia (nothing but water and ammonia in the ingredients). Ace hardware is the easiest place to find it, it's called...
I guess I'm gonna go ahead and dose it back up to 3/4 ppm tonight, if its down to 0 by this time tomorrow, I'm going to do a PWC to drop down nitrates to a safe level and start adding fish slowly.
First week I tested for nitrite 2-3 times, but since ammonia wasn't even dropping the first week, I didn't expect to see any nitrites.
After adding the active filter, ammonia pretty much instantly started dropping 2-3 ppm overnight leaving roughly 0.50-1ppm of ammonia in the tank 24 hours...
So I just got started with this new hobby a couple of weeks ago, did a considerate amount of reading, decided to go the fishless route. Picked up a 29 gallon and I've had it fully setup and running without fish for the past 2 weeks.
Dosed to 3-4 ppm ammonia with ace hardware ammonia the first...