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My new 46 gallon is 3 days into its 1st fish-in cycle. Ammonia this morning .25 and Nitrites barely measuring. Ph when I fist put fish (6 guppies) in was 7.2, but is registering 8.2 this morning. Seriously worried as ammonia climbs I might have a fish problem. I've read all over the Internet and...

Heartbroken this morning. My 5 surviving fish that were in my 10g tank waiting for the new/big tank to cycle all died this morning. I don't get it. I did a gravel vac water change yesterday to maybe 20% of the volume. Fed the fish before going to bed last night and all seemed well. Water had...

I thought a lot about doing that - I have a Fluval HOB hanging on my 10g tank, I could easily go plug it in on my big tank for a few days. But I've had such trouble with my 10g tank this year I'm nervous about ANYTHING that's been in that tank going in my new/big/expensive one.

Just launched my first real tank - 46gallon bow tank with 2inch deep sand substrate, Fluval 404 filter with all new media. Set tank up earlier this week and ran the water with a mechanical only filter for a couple days, dechlorinated the water with an API product. Put 6 fancy guppies in as the...

You think the light is low? I'm a bit surprised by that.. this thing is almost painfully bright with the white LEDs burning. Not sure about the spectrum, but people have used this light on bigger tanks than this.. Had trouble finding sand, but ending up with 80lbs of Petco freshwater sand...

We'll see.. As far as the sterilizer goes - I might not need it - but I already have it. I'm putting it on a timer to turn an hour or two per night and will adjust if there's an issue. I hear what you're saying about filter media. I have had such a nightmare getting water right in my 10G I...

Hello everyone - I've lurked around this site for awhile, but I have just gotten a bit more serious about this hobby and finally registered. I've been hobbling along with a little 10 gallon tank. Complete newbie purchase with lots of bad advice from my local independent pet store. I tried to...