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I've been cycling for almost 3 weeks now. My pH is a nice 7.0 and I am doing a fishless cycle with pure ammonia. Letting it drop to 1.0ppm then dosing back up to 4ppm. It usually drops from 4 to 1 within a few days. Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Aquarium Advice mobile app

so i am currently doing a fishless cycle with pure ammonia in my 150L tank. When doing water changes i use my hose because my tank is right near the back door. I add my dechlorinater at the same time as filling the tank with water from the hose. Will using the hose have any negative effects on...

Please help if you know guys! or a link to something that explains it is fine Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Yeah I will definitly be getting them a larger tank once they grow a bit :) hmm I reckon I should cut on the salt then. Didn't realize they were that sensitive to it :/ Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Aquarium Advice mobile app

So Im pretty sure my clown loaches have internal worms or parasites because they wont put on any weight and are skinny and I was going to get a worming treatment for them but ive come across so many wormers with different ingredients im so confused! I live in Australia so I think not all...

there 4cm long and are currently in my 60L while my 200L cycles. There is a lot of water movement and temp is at 28 degrees Celsius.

if your parameters are all good and everything was done the same as usual, it could have been the shock of changing temps or when dumping water back in the tank it could have really freaked them out. My zebra catfish died this way after a 50% water change and gravel vacc. Could possibly be a...

I have a 60L tank with 3 clown loaches and 1 dwarf gourami (I am currently cycling a 150L for them) All of my water parameters are fine and i have high water surface movement from airstones and tank is nice and clean but for some strange reason i keep losing clown loaches and ONLY clown loaches...

ok so yesterday my clown loach was fine and today he has a strange flesh coloured mark on his head, looks similar to this.. Loaches Online Forum • View topic - CL HITH??? however there is only 1 mark and it is not as deep as this. he also has two tiny white marks on his head aswell. i assumed...

Its water conditioner by showmaster. just called LFS and they said its for salts and minerals and isnt used as a buffer but got told when i went to get it it will help with melbournes soft water!

based on that table my harmful ammo is 0.03. Thanks thats really helpful

Melbourne does have really soft water :/ im not using any buffers per se but i was given 'water conditioner' from my LFS which is apparently different to my dechlorinater and looks like blue crystals? apparently it was meant to harden the water also add some salts minerals etc. Not sure if its...

thanks so much for your help. is there some calculation to find harmful ammonia levels opposed to the less harmful locked ammonia? my tank details are.. 60L, 4x 4cm clown loaches, 1x dwarf gourami and 2x tiny yoyo loaches. no dead fish. not overfeeding. i always remove uneaten food and tank is...

just did a ph test and found my Ph dropped overnight from 7 to 6.6. not sure if that means anything. used Ph up to put it back to neutral.

i just looked up the Ammonia test kit im using and found that it is a NH3/NH4 test kit. could the ammo lock be converting my ammo to NH4 which is safer but the test kit doesn't discriminate against the two and the reading im getting is actually NH4?

i do huge water changes as much as 50%. It definitely reduces ammonia but its still high (above 1ppm) but then it will be back up to 6ppm by the next day. i dont know what to do. people say to do large water changes but also that doing so could cause more harm!

i just assumed it was cycled because the fish stopped showing stress and were acting normal and i was told that ammo lock will cause false readings and thought this must have been the reason for the high ammo readings. i will try the water changes and hopefully this will bring it down.

tank is 60L and was just upgraded from a 30L tank that i thought was cycled since it had been up and running for about 3 months and no signs of fish stress or death. i used the same filter, gravel and 2 driftwood plants from the 30L to help the 60L along. i dont understand how ammo can be so...

ok so when i was starting out in the fish keeping area i had no idea the issues associated with cycling with fish. many of my loved fish were struggling or dying so desperately i ran to my local aquarium who gave me ammo lock (i know now big mistake!) i added the ammo lock for a time and my fish...