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Thanks Mebbid. If things go well, I'll probably add the other 4 next week. :dance:

Hi guys! I'm so excited that my tank finally finished cycling. It only took a long patience teaching 6 weeks. Anyways, I just stocked it with 4 glofish tetras (black skirt tetra). AqAdvisor tells me that I could have 8 adult sized skirt tetras in my 10 g with a stocking level of 89%. Adult...

Yes. We have one of those huge water softeners in the basement. 8.3 is what I measure coming out of the tap that has the softened water.

I have a small 10 g that I plan to stock with glofish. My water is quite hard, but we use a whole house softener.

A watched pot never boils. I started off obsessing with my tank but the more I did that it seemed to take forever. Then a few days in there I told myself to not take a reading for a day on purpose and to just basically ignore it. Then it changed! I was stuck with nothing but ammonia forever, but...

I'm at the tail end of my very first tank cycling (fishless) so I can't speak to trends from my experience. However, with this cycling I didn't have any changes to my pH at all. My pH has been consistently at 8.3. I've never put any pH adjusters into my tank. My tank along with all of its...

Funny, I just had a weird experience at my lfs today. I went in to browse as I'm still in the middle of a fishless cycle. I decided to ask them about their tanks' pH just so I knew ahead of time if my pH would be far off. Anyways, the guy there decided to give me a lesson in what pH means. After...

Thanks Fishperson. I put in a few seeds and we'll see if they survive totally underwater. I figure since I still don't have fish yet, this might be a good time to try it. If it starts gunking the water, I'll pull them out.

Hi everyone, I posted this in the general discussion forum already but didn't see this forum until now. Hopefully I'll have better luck here. I have some water spinach seeds (Ipomoea aquatica ) that I'm thinking of putting in my 10 gallon aquarium. I've seen a lot of information on growing...

Hi everyone, I have some water spinach seeds (Ipomoea aquatica ) that I'm thinking of putting in my 10 gallon aquarium. I've seen a lot of information on growing it in aquaponics but in all of those cases, only the roots are left in the water. Has anyone tried this? If I started the seeds...

After about 24 days of waiting, I've finally got nitrites on the rise! YAY !:dance:

Good to know. Thanks Trennamw.

Hello BB, From my searches, that was what I found as well. I just wasn't sure since a lot of pictures of them online were bigger and / or longer. Thanks for the double check.

I am currently doing a fishless cycle on a new 10 gallon tank. I'm about 20 days in. The last couple of days I've noticed tiny white C shaped things floating in the water. There seems to be more of them today than a couple of days ago. I think I saw about 5 different ones. They don't seem to...

Ok. Thanks PNWaquarist. I will wait patiently for a while longer.

Thanks Fresh2o, I was / am expecting my cycling to take some time as I figure I have no real seeding material. I think I've read about Mr. Fisher and had heard good things. At the moment, I'm willing to just be patient. I just wanted to see if what I had going on was uncommon to see the...

Hi PNWaquarist, So you don't think that it's weird that I see a slow drop in ammonia while not seeing ANY rise in nitrite? I'm wondering where the nitrogen is going since it can't just disappear. Could it just be too low of a level to show on the test? I'm using API master test kit. If...

Thanks Fresh2o for all of your help so far.

Hi Fresh2o, I don't test nitrates regularly but just ran down to test it now. It's at 0 ppm. Here are my values that I've logged. The nitrate levels are not actual test numbers. I only tested at baseline and just right now. I've never changed the water. Lately, I've been testing twice a day...

I'm on day 12 of a fishless cycle. It is a 10 gallon tank with filter running, air bubbler on, heater on keeping the water at 78 degrees. I've got gravel and decorations in as well. I also have a marimo moss ball in the tank. I initially dosed to 4 ppm for ammonia. When the ammonia levels drop...

Hello, I'm a week into a fishless cycle on a new 10 gallon tank. Tonight I purchased a Marimo moss ball. The lady at the store told me it could help to add the bag water that the moss ball came in. I know that most of the bacteria live on surfaces, but with a new tank, every bit could help. Is...