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I currently have a 30 gallon tropical aquarium, it is fully cycled and has fish in it, I am using an aquaclear 70 filter, it is fairly heavily planted with fake / plastic plants, and has normal sized aquarium gravel like the kind you can find at any big box store. I have been wishing for a...

I currently have 6 zebra Danio in my 29 gallon tall aquarium, I want to add some glofish, do I need to add a full school of 5 to 6 or can I just add a few since they are just colored danio?

I use the api master freshwater kit, I test about once a week, it's real hard to get a proper reading on the nitrate test, depending where I hold the tube it could be between 10 and 60.

I am able to only locate 3 of my 4 remaining cory, I fear he may be dead somewhere, I am going to give it a good once over and check. If it was a disease or sickness wouldn't my danio or the frog be sick / dying too?

I acclimate by floating the bag for 10 min, then add some tank water wait 10 min add more tank water wait 10 more minutes then net the fish into the tank. My ph is always pretty consistent right around 7.5 As for aerosols not really, I do put models together in that room using paint...

I have a 29 gallon tank, running an aquaclear 70 HOB filter, am fully cycled, current water peramaters are 0 ammonia zero nitrite and around 15 - 20 nitrate. current stocking as of right now 2 fancy male guppies, 6 zebra danio , 4 cory cats, 1 african dwarf frog. I had a rough go at cycling my...

yea, the tank is more or less stable now aside from the small spike in ammonia due to the new addition, my next move once everything levels back out and holds steady is to get 3 - 4 more julii cory, right now I have just one, and I would like to ultimately have 5 so they are less stressed -...

I have a 29 gallon tank, using 1 air bubbler, a HOB aquaclear 70 filter, as of last test yesterday I had trace amounts of ammonia ( less than .25 ppm ) from the bacteria catching up after adding some guppies last week, and zero nitrite, and around 20 ppm nitrate. here is the story. I was fish...

Just make sure you keep up with your water changes every couple of days and be patient, it will cycle eventually, as far as bacterial supliments the only bottled bacteria in would recommend is tetra safe start, anything else could end up out competing the bacteria your trying to grow. It...

I did water changes every 1 to 2 days

I only have a 29 gallon but tanks tend to cycle the same regardless of size. Basically I had around 1 ppm ammonia for 2 months then within 2 to 3 days my nitrites spiked and my tank was cycled the next day,

I had a heck of a time cycling my tank fish in, I used 6 zebra danios and 3 cory catfish, finally after 2 months my tank completed its cycle, I let it sit a week or so, and headed off to the LFS. I added 4 fancy guppies to my tank and 1 african dwarf frog, the ammonia levels rose slightly to...

The last few days my ac70 has been over flowing around the intake tube, even after rinsing the media in tank water it does it Is this common with the aquaclear filters or is something wrong I need to fix?

I am in the process of making my self a secondary filter with a liquidized media bed using a plastic bottle and cut up straws, there was a label on the bottle which I peeled off and it came off clean but left a strip of glue on the side of the bottle, what is my best bet to get this off? i want...

I am going to be skipping the neon tetras, will the danio be okay with a gourami or 2?

That is absolutely perfect and exactly what I am looking for! Thanks for the tip on which can go together, I'll be sure and post a pic once it's fully stocked.

I actually wanted 2 - 3 gouramis but was told they wouldn't get along, I would happily drop the neon tetras in favor of more than 1 gourami or a gourami + a GBR.

what could I put in there with the dwarf gourami that would not be aggressive? I would love a german blue ram, but I hear they can fight with the gourami.

I have a 29 gallon tall aquarium, using a aquaclear 70 hang on back filter, how well will this following stocking plan work? it says I am 99% stocked, and my filtration is at 161%, a few people have told me that this is actually over stocked, So i just thought I would double check. :thanks:

are strips at all reliable? since my api liquid kit always gives me wonky results I took a sample of tank water into my LFS and had them test it and they used API test strips and it showed only 15-20 ppm nitrates. the test strips are supposedly wildly inaccurate, but I just cant see how my test...

so I think my cycle is done, I cant really be sure. I was hovering around 1 - 1.5 ppm ammonia as per the norm, then a few days ago I tested the water and the ammonia was dropping, the next day I checked the nitrites and they were off the charts really really high, so I did 2 back to back water...

Yea, api nitrate test kit, first one I had I didn't shake hardly at all so it threw the chemicals all off in the bottles, my newest test kit I shakedown as per the instructions but have heard you literally need to beat the bottle and shake it for about 5 minutes which I didn't do so it may...

Yea, I will do it soon as I get home.

This is just driving me crazy, I just started the nitrites phase of my cycle but my tank shows anywhere between 20 and 80 Nitrates, I which is also what my tap water reads, I have tried 2 different api nitrate test kits, and get the same results. When I checked local water quality it said...

So after further testing I am indeed into the nitrate phase which is great! However.... As of a few days ago there is a brown algae like substance covering all my decor and fake plants, what is this and what is the cause and cure? Also, I know plecos grow huge, but I love algae eaters, is...