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My Nitrate and Nitrite levels are becoming safer but my ammonia levels are high. So I presume I would just ignore the bacteria in the bottom of which I thought was to be beneficial and just do a partial change? Its a new tank.

Hello forum! I have gotten some nice advice and I look to get more from here. I started my second aquarium; a 6.6 gallon bookshelf aquarium with 3 pea puffers an otto and a few ghost shrimp. Per the advice of the knowledgeable pet store I bought Nitromax and began cycling with fish newly added...

Its advertised as an ammonia remover. I will just go the natural route and change often.

I suppose I will just keep with the frequent changes of the water / gravel filtering. It should knock it down a little; i also have some AmQuel. Perhaps I should wait on that? And the pleco is like 2 maybe 3 inches right now(hes all fin); the largest he will get is 6 and by that time I will...

Do you think I need a bubbler? Or I suppose air stone. I thought you needed one to add oxygen to the water. I have a Marineland Biowheel 150; would that add enough oxygen to the water on its own? If I didn't have the bubbler the water would be that much less turbulent; the fish dont seem to go...

It must be a tiny bit above 0, not even 0.25. The color is barely green, mostly yellow if you have the chart handy.

In 3 minutes I will know the result of the master test kit ammonia.

This pleco is only going to get to be 6 inches, its a bushynose. And I had 3 white fin tetras, 3 red fin and a few rummynose and they were all swimming together. I was told the white fins and the rummy would be together, and that was true for awhile til one of the white fins got pretty big and...

Wow, we joined the same time to this forum and you already have 1,500 posts. You must really like this place. :dance:

It looks like we almost have the same gravel filter, I thought you were talking about one that siphons the water through a filter and just vacuums the water. Ive also heard they were a gimic...they are like 50 dollars too. But it looks like yours might have a valve at the top of the tube that...

My tanks isnt that new, about 5 months now. I had an ammonia issue when it was new but that could just be this lousey strip test. I will do the test tube when my water settles. (i just vacuumed the gravel and its merky) And yes, I wont be buying fish from them until I its well established they...

The Red Tetra is getting picked on by a golden barb because he is swimming weak; he is nipping at his tail fin...:( The barbs arent aggressive in this tank; it seems only when a fish has a difficulty are they.

The way I tried to aclimate them was add some of my tank water to the bag they came in and waited about 30 minutes to release them into the tank. They were swimming okay and their color looked fine for a few days; other than the ich. I know they had ich at the store, many of their fish had...

Hello forum! I have gotten good advice from here before and I hope to again. A few days ago my awesome rummynose I felt was lonely, I went to the store and bought a few more. The last time I did this many of them died because of them being schooling fish and they don't do well in transition. As...

Could a plant do that? I didnt know that, I just wanted some natural greenery in my tank. But the fish seems to attack every plant I put in there; maybe plants are a no go :(

Ive got about 5 ghost shrimp, one is pregnant... so I might have more in a bit. The ottos seemed fine for about a month, then started to not latch onto stuff. I have a banana-something or other plant in there that seems to always be brown and have dying leaves. The ottos love that plant tho...

Hi forum, I have a quick concern and I would like an opinion before I go out and buy ottos or something. I have a lot of what looks to be brownish clumping masses in spots of my tank, more heavily on the live plants that I have but a fair amount on my fake plants. I was thinking it might be...

I am not familiar with the abbreviations you used, dw and rts?

Hi everyone, I have gotten some great advice from this forum in the past and i hope to get some more today! I have a 20 gallon freshwater aquarium with a few tetras, octos, and two barbs. Lately I have noticed the plants that I have in there are getting white stuff growng on the ends that the...

It's only a 20, I'd be more concerned messing up the good bacteria that's grown in there.

I have a tank that is a little over a month old and I started with very large gravel, I would prefer smaller gravel but my primary concern is that a few of my fish do not seem to hang out on the bottom; I have an albino pleco that is sitting on a false cave for about 90 percent of the time, I...

What's the highest you think I should eventually aim for in the tank to kill the ich? The barbs are supposed to be in a maximum of 82 degrees.

Just ordered, gonna be at my house Thursday.

Yea and they weren't cheap...like 14 dollars. I don't think I can return them, morally, I used 2....morally. Heh... If I order the one on amazon it would be here by Friday definitely. And I have a fish behavior question, my barbs are like slapping bodies against each other and wiggling side by...

So I bought an ammonia test kit before, the strips and to my eye the color closely matches the 0 indicator, maybe slightly darker. Am I doing something wrong? The get at Petland said wait like 3 or 4 minutes while the package says 60 seconds, I waited 60 and examined. I wish I got the test tube...