Recent content by rudymanitou

I am writing for a bit of advice on our yo yo loaches in our 20 gallon aquarium. It seems one of the three loaches goes to the mountain I have right in the middle of the tank and lays in one of the opens on his side right where the bubbles rise up. It also seems his black stripes have faded...

i used prime immediatly on saturday when it spiked. so is 0.10 ppm for the Nitrites ok. ammonio is fine and Nitrates are 30ppm which is good. ph is 7.4

I found that out after the fact. Should I still do another water change. The Nitrites are at about 0.10 ppm now, down from about 3.0ppm on Saturday. One 20% pwc won't hurt just to make sure, right. Thanks for the help.

There is fish in the tank. I had to change the filter two weeks ago so it kind of threw things off. The filter that came with the tank was terrible. As soon as i saw the Nitrites spike a bit, I used Prime to neutralize them. That was on Saturday. I just tested earlier tonight and it seems...

Thanks for all your guys help. I have read quite a bit about the cycle, I just wanted to make sure the values were not too high. I did not want to harm any fish. I just checked the water with a master test kit and the Nitrite has dropped between 0 ppm and 0.25 ppm. PH is at 7.4 Nitrate...

Could someone please tell me what kind of snail is in the picture. It seems they hitched a ride on some plants I bought at Big Al's on Saturday. Also please let me know what we should do with them. I removed what I could find so far just until I find out. Thanks

Just wondering about an issue I am having with Nitrites. Right now it seems in the last 48 hours the nitrites in our tank have spiked. Is this just another stage of the tank cycling. Last week I had a ph and ammonia problem and now they are under control and then the nitrite problem started on...

Just wanted to take the time to say hi to everyone. We look forward to learning lots from all of the seasoned veterans out there. We started our first tank 4 weeks ago and it has been a whirlwind ride. Everyone told me it was such a stress reliever, lol, yeah right. We are more stressed now...