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Well I guess I can consider myself lucky because I've always had really good water clarity. Thanks for all the help, hopefully things will run a little more smoothly now that the cycle has started. I don't suppose you guys have a freshwater book recommendation for a newbie do you?

Just an update. My tank is finally showing signs of nitrite. The ammonia is staying right around 1 ppm and all the fish are acting normal so I'm thinking that might be my zero number. Oh by the way what is a GW outbreak?

Ok from the start, Six weeks ago I bought my tank(29gallon,Penguin 200, VisiTherm stealth 100W heater, plastic plants, gravel bottom) and set it up. I let the tank run without fish for 3 days, then was told by LFS to add hardy fish to start the cycle. So I bought 2 black mollies, 2 platies, and...

.5 ppm, I did add 3 cap fulls of Prime though.

Ok I'm still having troubles with my tank. The tank is a 29 gallon freshwater. I set it up 6 weeks ago and I couldn't buy a ppm of nitrite or nitrate. I've got all the ammonia in the world though. I tested and changed water routinely and couldn't get the Ammonia under 1.5 ppm. Come to find out...

Thanks for the responses. I've been using a gravel vac to clean the gravel while I do the water changes. I also add AquaSafe to the water before adding it back to the tank. I'll make sure that I up the number of water changes and stop using the Ammo-Lok. Would you recommend testing the water...

Hello everyone, over the past several weeks I've purchased and set up my first tank. It is a 29 gallon tank with a Penguin Bio-wheel 200, Visi-therm Stealth 100W heater, and 20W hood. Now I was told that I didn't need to wait for my tank to cycle before adding fish. ( Contrary to what seems the...

Hello, my name is Keaton and I've just gotten into aquariums. I recently purchased a 29 gallon setup after being intrigued by my soon to be father-in-law's tank. That and it seems to be a relaxing hobby. After looking around this seems to be a very informative and friendly forum so I figured...