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OK...so I've got 3 different freshwater tanks (OK...so I dived into my new hobby with a little too much enthusiasm...but seriously...when you see a 20 gal with good equip for $30 in a garage sale...what's a person to do?) and I've kept them running and healthy for about a year and a half now...

I have a 5 gal hospital tank that I put the two loaches in.....I'm going to try just heat for a week and see if things improve....if that doesn't work - I think I'll try using half doses of a copper sulfate med. Is that better or worse than a Malachite green med? Does it matter? I...

Yay! So I think I'm finally cycled now! I will jump on the "Bio-Spira is the cheese" bandwagon with everyone else now! Ammonia is zero, nitrites are zero and nitrates are in not in the "stress" or "danger" zone yet!!! Now...I just have to deal with two clown loaches with ich. sheesh.

Currently Ammonia is at abou 2ppm...but was at around 5-6 when I changed it last Saturday. PH is neutral, I can't remember the exact numbers...but nitrites are practically nil and Nitrates are just barely registering on my test stick. In the tank I have: 1 Clown Loach 3 Raspboras 2 Dwarf...

I have a 55 gal tank, currently there are 14 fish in it (They were added in two groups about 2 weeks apart). It's been about 5 weeks since I've started everything, and I just can't seem to get the Nitrate levels up and the ammonia down. I'm still having to do about a quarter to a third tank...