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So I was doing some googling and I found that if you put purigen in your filter too early it could mess up your cycle could that be my problem? I put it in there to remove tannins when the tank was about a month old

How did you get it to stop?

I only have the one tank set up right now I currently moved and only set up one tank which I am having problems with

I used organic planting soil which I have done twice before this tank and never had a problem like this normally my tanks are perfect

But still if I took the gravel out and replace it with sand wouldn't it be easier to clean and then it wouldn't get stuck in the bottom?

Okay I will do this I just need to get the sand. What about the plants thou? Just take them out and try to keep their roots together?

How would I go about doing that I have restarted tanks before but the plants werent rooted in. So what would the steps be to restart everything? Cause I only have the one tank that's set up and cycled I have nutrafin cycle would that work with some dechlorinated tap water so I could put the fish...

There is the picture of the tank I have 3/4 of an inch of soil under the gravel and the test kit I am using is the api freshwater master test kit then I honestly have no idea what kind of plants they are I bought them at pet smart and they were labeled assorted

Okay I will try a 50% water change and there is no ammonia in the tap water and I thought the snails would have produced some ammonia to start it up and the pH of the water dropped 0.2

Any idea how long it takes cause it's only a 10 gallon and I thought 2 months was more then enough

I did a cycle with snails I know they aren't fish but they still have a bioload and I did that for 2 months before any fish went in and nitrites are 0.25ppm and nitrates are zero

The tank has been set up since the being of September and I am using an elite brand filter rated for 15 gallons and I am running purigen in it

I will clean out the pipes tonight and maybe I will have to look into some swords tonight

No I have very little if not no dead plant matter and I would say its not heavily planted but its got a few and I have not checked the filter at all I will do that right now and I am getting good results from my tap water the pH is 7.6 and its pretty hard but I think that's what guppies do well in

Yeah I am shaking the bottle then the tube

Hello I have a 10 gallon planted tank and my ammonia levels won't drop they are between a .5 and 1 and I have 3 guppies in there they seem to be doing fine I have tried doing a 10% water change and a 50% water change with no different I have also added prime to it and it helps but then it comes...