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Yea you are correct. Ammonia spiked. It is close to 0.5 today. I did a water change immediately. I cant believe this happened after an year. It was pretty stable though. I don't know how long it is going to be this time. I had a tough time cycling my tank :banghead:.

Thanks for the reply. Yea it was almost falling apart and not filtering properly. No it is not near window. I switch on lights only for 6-7 hours. I don't know why it still green.

I've a 10G planted tank with platy and tetra. I've some live plants as well. My tank used to crystal clear. 2 Months back i changed filter cartridge(after running for 8 months.). When i installed new cartridge, I just squeezed off old filter cartridge inside tank and behind new filter...

Some strange brownish red thing(algae i guess) is growing in my tank. Please see the pictures. how can i get rid of this? Its new tank....which was set up 2 months back. Morning when i tested it had 0 ammonia and 5 ppm nitrate. Please help. Thanks.

Can i add 3-4 black phantom tetras?

hmmmm....barb is out then....will glofish go well?

My 10G tank is running from the past 6 weeks. I believer its at the end of cycling. I'm still monitoring for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. I currently have 2 sunset fire platy 2 black molly Can i add any more fishes? I don't want to add Gourami / neon tetras/guppy or betta. That cuts down...

i'm back with issues... i added seeded filter media from LFS...3 days ammonia reduced and nitrate started raising. After that things went back.... ammonia started raising....did water changes...didn't see nitrate after that. Something wrong. not able to figure out.

LOL...i see nitrates too..but no nitrite and ammo wont reduce :)

I'm going crazy cycling my tank.:facepalm:.. it was from a tank that i've seen it running from very long time....

OMG, isn't adding filter media instant or fast cycling? why am i seeing 0.25 ammonia again?

yea 2 platy , 1 molly and 2 albino cory

How long should i run my tank before even thinking of water change? is 29 enough for chichlid? i was told minimum 40...

yup i did that. dropped the one in the filter in the tank. I want one mature filter media to be ready for my next tank. Wanna start a chichlid tank soon. :)

Its actual filter cartridge (the white bag whichever we slide in) and yes it'll fit. Its actually pretty long. Only 75% will fit, rest will be outside water. Should i put it in my filter?

ok i somehow got a dirty filter media from LFS. Dropped in my tank. i did not replace my filter. Just dropped this one. Will it help?

frys are gone...dead i guess...still no sign of cycling. Anyone in hartford CT area willing to give me seed bacteria? :)

Now adding complexity to whatever it is going on in the tank, i'm seeing couple of frys. I never knew one of the fish was pregnant. Should i take the frys out?

yea that was hard to read :)...thanks for the advice :) If i do that much water change, wont it affect cycling?

I'm losing patience. i ordered Tetra safestart. Many users claimed it would.

I changed media when i started fresh on apr first week. i installed used filter media from LFS. That definitely caused mini cycle I would say.

i did not see nitrites at all. But i started seeing nitrates.

yea...ich is terrible. I used jungle ick and ick 2. worked like a charm. everything out in 3-4 days. Fishes are still there. Lost one cory last week. Nitrites are 0.

Thanks for asking Siva. I started fresh by 8th april. Whole of march i was struggling with ick and fin rots. I added lots of medicine to save them. I saved but cycling did not start. So i cleaned everything, somehow got a filter media from LFS and started again. 2-3 days, mini cycling...

Hi everyone, I'm running into several problems with my 10G tank. Here's the history. Bought a new tank 10G with heater. Added fish in 2 days without knowing about cycling. Fishes got ick...added ick medicine. I treated for couple of days without carbon. I put the carbon back and it became...