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10 Gal tank. 8 fish (2 mollies, pleco, 5 tetras). Paramaters good after 50% water change on Monday May 8th. (vaccuum gravel also at that time)
Fish is a Dalmation Molly we've had for 1 year. She's had 2 broods with us. Only one wasn't eaten.
Symptoms:
She began getting larger (fatter) over...
It appears that my 7 year old over-fed the fish while I was away on business. My Nitrite levels are off the charts! I've done a 50% water change and the levels are down but still way too high (i.e.2.8 Nitrite and 37 Nitrate) Lost a small fry that was 6 months old and have seven 2 week old...
how often do I vaccuum gravel?
My tap water is very hard also. I took a chance and introduced some new fish and extra plants.
3 diamond fancy tetras.
3 balloon mollies ( 1male, 2 female)
I know it was alot at one time but they seem to be doing okay. I just missed seeing thing swimming...
Water change worked
Still using test strips but the water change worked.
Nitrate=30
Nitrite = 0.0
Hardness= 300 (how do I change this?)
Alkalinity= 80
pH = 7.0
Still very hard water. Will this hurt if I add new fish? I was thinking of getting another male Sailfin Dalmation Molly to mate...
How do you affect changes to the tank parameters?
Bought test strips. Here are the parameters:
Nitrate=80
Nitrite = 0.3
Hardness= 300 (how do I change this?)
Alkalinity= 0
pH = 6.5
I just added my 2tsp. of TetraAqua Easy Balance to lower the Nitrate.
Here are my questions:
How do I...
What does cycled mean? I'm a newbie, don't know what that means. The tank has been set up for about 2 years now. I do a 20% water change every 2 weeks. I ran out of test strips so don't know the parameters but there haven't been any major changes lately.