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Well this weekend is good for me not to much running around I can give them more attention

Ok good I'll try to take pics of the red spots later cuz a couple have it and since water was at .50 ammo yesterday doing a pwc would only bring it down to .25 like someone told me I'll do another one tonight and tomorrow morning and night and so forth. I'm learning a little ad soaking info in lol

Popcorn the sick fish finally ate this morning. Woke up a little late couldn't test the water but will do as soon as I get home. Now I hope I se the red spots leave

Couldn't sleep tv kept me up. I out enough for whole tank just gonna have to get more soon before I do another pwc tomorrow

Alright will do it in the am time for some sleep. Will report in morning

Should I test ammonia before I go to bed since the pwc will have settled by then?

I also removed the carbon in the cartridge a little was left but I didn't want to rip the cartridge completely but almost all is out so I can keep with the melafix

So a 50% water change? Also looked up API stress zyme it's suppose to be for ammonia and declorinize I put as much of the water I'm replacing or enough for full tank?

So I just finished testing Ph 7.6 Ammo .50 ppm No2 0 ppm No3 0 ppm Also I have bio bag whisper filter cartridges what do I remove from cartridge as I'm using melafix?

U right. Thank god for u guys helping me out I love this forum!!

Maybe go for custom size so I can get more then one and to fit the filter dimensions perfectly would be better but I didn't see active under custom fit. Idk maybe I'll just get the cube run on top of hob I'll get I seen the ac70 on amazon new for like 35.99 so that's not bad

I looked at angelplus but I didn't see active filter cartridges just a cube filtration and I really don't understand what that is for. But I read a couple reviews about their active sponges and a lot of people had success cycling new tanks in a week or so with fish in cycling so I'm definetly...

I thought about canisters too much for me ATM so hob will have to do lol And yes I am in us luckily I will look into angelplus Ty

Wow that's crazy 3 years in a hot tub lol. I wonder if I can find an ac 70 used from a healthy tank to help cycling faster.

Any good ones u can recommend ?

We have a mom and pop fish store that around us they can probably give me better media then a chain store plus I've been in their store before and fish seem pretty healthy that's where we got our little guys from.

If we had space for a pond I would go that route but live in an apartment and I don't think she would go for making the shower the pond lol and I honestly don't know anyone with a pond. Idk what she will decide I just know that we have things to buy for this new tank and have to figure out how...

If it was that easy I brought that option up to my wife and she quickly said no because she has had them for 6 years now. When she first got them they were from a carnival! She didn't expect to live this long but they have. So I hate to say it cuz its cruel but they will have to stay with us...

Lol yea me the bathtub was my crime scene with the tank. So in preparation I picked up a 55 gallon tank by aqueon I think and paid 62.00 after joining petco reward member card which is better then 200+. Now we need to pick up the stuff filter deco etc... For it but it's the first step towards...

See the misses always complained about the stuff on surface and filter so she would make me scrub everything down but oh we'll at least I know now

I wish I would've known this prior but u live and u learn. I just hope no more casualties anymore if my tank wipes then I will just cycle it properly fish less before I add any fish and this time I will do it right but I hope I can keep these healthy and alive

Ok I understand that's why she had originally 8 then 3 died in 2 years then for 4 years it's just been 5 in there ad they were fine added the 4 new ones and everything went to wack it just took awhile for everything to start affecting them I guess. Well I'm trying to work out a way splitting...

Thing I don't understand for 6 years we've had them never had to do all this and after the kids added 4 smaller commons 6 months ago now we are dealing with all this.

Ok so leave filter on but remove cartridge and the black sponge thing in the filter too? Thanks I hope they get 100% soon too. Like in a previous post they all seemed more active this morning while I was gettin ready for work. Even popcorn who's been not eating or swimming much today she was...

I will report back once I get home and do the water change. I was talking with the misses cuz she doesn't want to part with any of the fish so we gonna get a second tank when we can but get the 55 gallon for the other 5 and keep the 4 younger in the the tank we have now.