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Filtration is strong on one end of the tank (XP3 with a power bar and a sponge filter) and a little less current on the other (XP3 with power bar only - we are trying to make both the barbs and the weathers happy, current-wise!). I'll do a little research on hillstream loaches, see what I can...

Does anyone have experience with weather loaches and nerite snails? I realize that loaches are known for their snail hunting abilities, but my weathers do not seem to bother with the trumpet snails in their tank. If people have had bad experiences (i.e. weathers pestering/trying to eat nerites)...

I'm glad to hear (read!) that - less stress on my end!! We are picking up the last three weathers on Sunday...hopefully all goes well and we can sit back and enjoy watching our babies being healthy and happy (and, as I have quickly learned with weather loaches...we can sit back and watch them...

All four loaches have been happy as can be since introducing them! As predicted by all, no change in water readings over the last few days... :)

The loaches we are picking up are about 5 inches long, so not babies, but also not full grown. We are going to pick the first four up tonight...I'll let you all know how it goes!

That would be amazing - I hope you have a winning bet there! ;)

Our plan is to introduce 7 weather loaches, and then the community will be complete. We have three weather loaches that have been on hold for us at our lfs for about a month (very kind of them!), and one more at another pet shop (hopefully he will still be there - they said he has been there for...

I agree, it does sound like there is just not a big enough bio-load going on in here - I would just hate to get an ammonia spike after adding the bottom dwellers as I am guessing they will be more sensitive.

So, would you say that we could go ahead and add some bottom dwellers? Or, do we wait this out?

Tested again today...all 0. Thanks all thus far...keep any more ideas coming. Is it possible to have a cycle occur without a reading of nitrates? Or, do you think we are in for another full cycle here?

I am using an API test kit (I am confident in my testing abilities as I did numerous tests on the 55g in the beginning, and many more on our 10g and 5.5g snail tank...our readings always match the master at our lfs). As for live plants, in the tank we have 10 Jungle Val (all very full and tall)...

I'm not sure I know what you mean by 'start up' or 'tank start up'...perhaps I am a bit daft! ;)

Hi - I hope to find some advice regarding cycling a 220g tank. We transferred tons of seeded media from our 55g into the canister filters for the 220g, plus we added a heavily seeded sponge filter. In the tank, we introduced 13 gold barbs. We tested daily for about 7 days, 0 readings for...

If it were me, I would wait to get straight readings of 0 for ammonia and nitrites for a few days before adding fish (I waited 5 days), then I'd add 2-4 a week :) But, I'd keep up with water testings everyday until the tank is well established.

Do you have a reading for nitrates?