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I just took and uploaded some pictures of my tank. You can kind of see that the peacock fern's leaves, or whatever ferns have, are starting to curl from being under water. But the fish are darting around them so much I am loathe to take them out. Assuming that the LFS will not refund my money...

Yes I saw those. I was thinking I might try to make sure I wont kill anything before trying that though. My light is much better now that I have an okay bulb, but I would really like to see new growth before I get serious about plants.

Yes, I am pretty sure some of my plants are non aquatic. The peacock fern I just got is not, and I will be returning that sans packaging. That really cheeses me! I cannot seem to find a good store that sells plants though, and as I said in a previous post, I am reluctant to buy online. The true...

Okay, here are my notes. Hope you can make sense of them! Notes1 Notes2 Notes3 Notes4 Edit: Some of them show up upside down, I will fix that later. Right now I am out of battery. Edit: I think those are all good. I changed the contrast to make them easier to read.

Yah, when I say my nitrItes are zero, it means that they are small enough levels that they are not a problem. The shades on these test kits are kind of hard to read, so most of the time I am guesstamating on exact levels.

Thanks! Sorry, I am an English teacher, so open ended questions are kind of my thing! :) Right now I have 3 Leopard Danios in the tank, which get to be about 1.5 inches, I guess. I like how active they are, though they are a bit piggish in their feeding. Is the inch/gallon rule a good measure...

I understand where you guys are coming from, really! I was big into herpetology in college, and got really fired up about the way that people I knew cared for their reptiles. One of the things I think is easy to forget is that people new to fish are sometimes not yet at the point where they see...

Sure thing. They are in a notebook, but when I get back to my school on Tuesday I can scan them. Don't have a scanner here at home.

I understand. I didn't do total changes at the beginning. I did partial changes, based on ammonia levels, every day. The cycle didn't start. That went on for 2 months. My fish were living in ammonia at around 5ppm for 2 months during which I was doing PWCs every day. After going through that...

Thanks! I love both plants and fish, so I want as much as possible in my small tank. I was really inspired to start a tank by the great landscape planted tanks i have seen, really awesome dutch stuff. I just put in another plant, well, a set of tall peacock ferns. I also got a light that is 18w...

Great post! Same as my experience as a kid! Glad your stuff is going so well!

Respectfully, I didn't phrase this as advice, I was just reporting what happened. I also never said it was responsible, I just said that the cycle happened. On advice from this forum I was doing water changes all the time, and the cycle didn't begin. Not only that, I am a novice. Don't hate...

I appreciate your opinion, but you could say the same thing about the nitrifying bacteria. By doing PWCs I was not giving them the ability to get started in the tank. I was being overly cautious and the bacteria were starving. If I had known about fish-less cycling I would have done that, but I...

Well, its been a while since I've been on the forum. I guess the holidays are busy for everyone. Now that I am into the new semester though I thought I would post an update and ask for some feedback. I was super stressing out over they tank before Christmas. The nitrItes were all out of...

Cool. Regular algae, nothing to worry about. And yes, I know about the Ammonia level. I have been doing partial water changes every couple of days, but they remain high. I am starting to think that my testing kit is wrong. After a 50% change you would expect the level to go down, even after a...

My tank is coming along, I think the cycle is starting to get somewhere. Ammonia: 2.0 ppm Nitrite: .25 ppm Nitrate: <5.0 ppm Did a partial (1/2) water change about 4 days ago, seems the ammonia runs wild in here. Anyhow, doing a pwc right now (1/3), and I have a new issue. (Picture Below) I...

Well, I just passed week four, and while it was too slight to tell i think i am starting to see nitrates. So, soon my cycle will be through! Whew, that was annoying.

There we go! 3 weeks in and I finally see nitrite! Whoopee!

Okay, now I am up to two weeks! Keeping the ammonia down to below 1.0 ppm as best I can with PWCs. But 14 days in I still am not testing any measurable levels of nitrites. Normal? Thanks!