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Awesome, thanks you! I woke up to nitrites this morning, so at least I'm getting somewhere! :)

I've got a few plants and I'm dosing seachem stability daily. How much (ish) should that speed it up?

Hi, So backstory, on June 4th I impulse bought a gorgeous betta I'd fallen in love with at my LFS. I wasn't planning on a betta, but I did have an empty 10 and extra filters, so I figured cycling wouldn't be too hard. I used 50% of the established media in one of my other tanks, picked up some...

And I have read that most fish can adapt to any pH, but I've also read that apistos are often an exception to that rule. I'm not sure if that's true though, it might depend on the species? Cockatoo apistos especially are usually pretty adaptable so maybe they will be okay in a pH above 7. I'm...

Ahh thank you for reminding me about the snails and pH!! Hopefully I'd have remembered that before I actually tried keeping a snail in there :p . I'll move the snail to a higher pH tank, then. I already have 1 mystery and 1 assassin snail, but one at a time lives in my betta tank and the other...

Hello again :) I currently have a 29 gallon with pencilfish and celestial pearl danios. I was originally thinking that I wanted to keep a pair apistos in it, because I've wanted to keep apistos for years and I finally have a big enough setup for a pair. The problem is though, I'm using tap...

A month or more ago I saw a single (nasty, wiggly) worm swimming in my 5 gallon, but I grabbed it with tweezers and took it out, and since I never saw any more worms except the tiny ones on my glass that seem to have disappeared since I got an assassin snail, I never bothered to figure out what...

Both my tanks have HOBs, the 5 has a tetra whisper and the 29 has an aqua clear. My whisper currently has some fluval biomax and a little sponge that came with the filter. The aquaclear has the material that came with it minus the activated carbon, which I think is more fluval biomax and a...

Oh wow, I forgot about plants!! I do have plants, they're relatively heavily planted tanks. I dosed with Seachem Flourish when I first set up the tank since I was a bit worried about some of the plants, but i haven't dosed with that since. I do dose with Excel, but I don't think that has...

Hello! I've been frustrated that the NO3 won't go down in my recently cycled tanks, until today I finally thought to test my tap water and found out the nitrate levels straight out of my tap are almost 10ppm, according to my API liquid test kit. (Still not sure why the 29 gallon consistently...

Thanks, SherLar. I think the CPDs should be okay since I've seen others keep them successfully, but your comment confirms I might have to give up my erythromicron dream and wait until I have another tank for them, they are tiny little fish. I will look more into rasbora species and see if I...

Hello! I'm currently cycling my planted 29g which will eventually hold a pair of cockatoo apistos. I'll be putting in some small schooling species as well, and I'm hoping to get fish that won't interfere with breeding if I decide to breed the apistos. I was originally planning on getting a dozen...