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Well could I catch the tiger barb and put him in a mesh bag? Or catch the Mollie in the the bag to so the babies dont get eaten?

I have a 56 gallon tank with 5 tiger barbs 3 green tiger barbs, 2 bala sharks, and 2 mollies (one male and one female). First I will start with the Mollie. My golddust Mollie has grown a huge belly over the past few days and I am almost sure she is pregnant. I dont have any live plants just...

Okay so toady the fish that looked like it had ich is much more active than he was yesterday. He is swimming alot more and I still do not see any signs of the spots on any other fish. But something else has happened. This morning I woke up and all fish looked good except for the one with the...

Yes it does sort of look like little pieces of salt and my heater is turned up as high as it can go now which is like 86. Should I get medicine though? I really dont won't the rest of the fish to get infected? I have an airstone currently working at all times now.

I tried to take a picture of it but all you can see is him floating sort of downwards and you cant even see the spots in the picture so it would be kind of useless. But it is just tiny little white spots. Plus he is not really schooling with the rest of the fish.

Okay thanks I have still seen no sign of the angel fish yet but something knew has shown and since I already have this discussion going I'll just ask it here. Today I was feeding my fish and noticed one tiger barbs had a few tiny little spots on its fins. Is this ick im not sure and what should...

I have a glass top on the tank so there is no way he could have jumped out and I have moved everything and vacummed the gravel. There is not trace. lol

I have a 59 gallon tank with 5 small tiger barbs and 4 very small green tiger barbs a rainbow shark, 2 bala sharks very small(plan on moving them to bigger tank once they grow) and what was 2 angel fish. I have had one angel fish for about 2 weeks and was fine so I added another one. The next...

Okay nitrites have not budged at all. Ammonia is going from 4ppm to 0ppm every 24 hours. Is there anyway to speed up this nitrite stage? It just seems like the test is getting darker and darker every day.

If your ph goes down do u just do a water change?

So today I checked everything in the tank. The ammonia levels had dropped from 4ppm to. 5ppm. Hittites are still through the roof and nitrates have went up. I have read around and saw that people have had problems with this stage of the cycle. Such as Hittites get so high they want come down...

Well today I tested for ammonia and it is now in between .5 and 1ppm. Its been a little over 24 hours since I last dosed it so that seems pretty good to me and I am very happy :D. Should I go ahead and put a little more in it or wait probably until tomorrow to dose it on back up? Nitrates seem...

The ammonia or nitrites?

How long should it take for ammonia to go back down to 0ppm this time?

So during the cycle is okay for nitrates to go pretty high?

Okay so today I checked the tank. Ammoina has went down to 0:lol:. Very excited to finally see this. I redosed and it looks to be around 4ppm. Nitrites are still very high (off the chart) and nitrates are now at 40 ppm. So I guess there is some nitrite eating bacteria growing but not enough to...

Alright. :brows: How long do you estimate it will take to see nitrites start going back down? Also just another curious question. Does nitrites go down by the bacteria that produces nitrates like ammonia goes down by the bacteria that produces nitrites?

My nitrites are way over 5ppm. Like I said it is much darker than any color than my test kit can read. Also i put 8mL of ace ammonia to get the ammonia to read 4ppm last time so about how much would you suggest this time? about 3mL maybe? I really dont want to overdose and screw up after getting...

Okay so today I have seen a significant drop in ammonia. :D It is down to around 1 to 2ppm. Nitrites have now gone off my charts and nitrates are at about 20ppm. So should I redose ammonia now or let it get a little lower? Also when I redose the ammonia should I see it go away much faster...

Thanks.:thanks: I was just getting a little worried how I had the nitrites and nitrates forming but no drop in ammonia because I thought that ammoina had to drop before nitrites could form. I guess I will just try to be patient. lol :D

No I dont. All I have is a bubble wall, gravel, and the active sponge filter from angel plus.

I put the first dose in on december 5th and has not went down since then

So teakwood you think I should just let it keep going the way its going right now and just keep testing even though ammonia is not changing. It is reading around 4ppm still.

So once I change the water and the ammonia goes down should I dose it back up to around 4ppm? Also will the water affect my nitrates and my nitrites that are forming? Im really nervous about doing the water change because it just seems like everything is going good in this cycle except for the...

Okay so a few changes today. I bought an api master test kit. Ammonia is reading from 4pp to a little less. Nitrites are at 3 to 4 ppm which is an increase from yesterday. Nitrates have shown up and are from 5 to 10 ppm. I am alot happier with the nitrites rising and the nitrates showing up...