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It wound up being a little over a 50% change. I have a 10 qt bucket I use to fill with (only) and a 5 gal bucket to take water out. I got a little carried away. The fish have been in since Saturday afternoon readings yesterday were slightly higher on ammonia. Did the 75% then. I try to check it...

Doing a water test now. My ammonia is 1.0 ppm, PH is 6.8, Nitrate is 40 ppm, Nitrite is is dead on 0 ppm. Doing a 3 gallon water change. Will check it again nightly until it balances again.

The tank never sat not running. It was continually running from the crash until the new fish were added. Once I got the numbers to come down after the initial crash, which is why I bought the api master kit so I knew why the first fish died, I did a fishless cycle, steps taken from information...

The reason I ask about the cory is I read on here in a few different places where people had one or two in smaller tanks like mine.

My tank is already cycled. It has been for about two weeks before I added fish this weekend. I had it set up before and it never went through a full cycle and crashed. I am checking my levels every night and so far so good. The cory won't be ok with two in the tank? That was the only other thing...

Hi all! I just registered here. I have been looking around for a while and it seemed like a good place for info, so I joined! I have a 10G freshwater aquarium currently set up (for the second time). The first go round didn't end too well. Rookie mistakes and misleading info. Anywho, I have a 20G...