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@BkiniBottom I have the Aqueon 20 on one of my tanks. The blue grid next to your filter cartridge is your bio media grid which will collect the beneficial bacteria. It just needs time to build up. Don’t wash this in regular water. If you have to clean it because it’s gunky make sure you bang it...

@SciFyDi thanks for the advice and no, I don’t have any used filters since I threw out the filter from the old 10 gallon tank.

@SciFyDi, No, I don’t have any used filters since I threw the old one from my 10 gallon tank away. The 20 gallon tank is my only tank. And I’ll definitely do what you said.

@KingFisher, When I do get the chance, I’ll definitely buy a more reliable test kit. Also, I added some good bacteria to the tank by getting some of the old substrate from the old tank and mixing it with the new substrate and I also heard that the filter I have has it on the cartridge holster.

@SciFyDi, I am using purified water and the water additive I use is API QuickStart. The filter I use is the Aqueon LED Pro QuietFlow 20. As of right now, the tetras are still doing good. I also have a heater already, but I guess it isn’t effective enough.

Hey there, have you tried buying some sort of algaecide from the pet store yet like Aqueon Algae Remover or something like that? Try that and maybe that’ll help. And since the fish like the flakes better, keep using them. ;)

Right now, the tank is 3 weeks old and again, it is 20 gallons. Before I got the 2 deceased barbs with the 4 tetras that are still alive, I had 5 fish in it that I put in from my old 10 gallon tank since it got too small for them, and they all died the next day. After, I changed 20% of the water...

This week, two of my glofish tiger barbs died suddenly. One died before the other and the other died the next day. Their tank mates were 4 glofish tetras that are still alive and I noticed that when I fed them, the barbs wouldn’t eat as much as the tetras. We got all 6 at the same time, we...