Hey guys I have a quick question about cycling a tank with fish (opps) and a fish with a damaged fin. Before that I will give you all a quick history of my fish keeping exp.
I had fish as a kid, and the tanks been in storage for 15yrs. I got interested in in fish again when my sister went our and bought some goldfish, but never set up the tank. She decided to stick them in a jam jar and deal with it after work the next day. I woke up and noticed the fish where dying and rushed to the fish store, bought some supplies and pulled the ol' 10g out of storage. Well I managed to nurse the fish back to life, and its 6 months old now. I did not know about cycling at the time and did water changes every few weeks. (Prob why a few of the fish died)
As of right now I have 4 goldfish, 1 basic gold fish, 2 fantail, and 1 unknown.
Over Christmas break I had no choice but to buy a 10 day feeder, and upon getting home noticed tonnes of algae in the tank. Me not knowing a lot about fish keeping decided to move the fish to a bucket, and do a full clean of the tank, probably killing a lot of bacteria. Thankfully none of the fish died, and I found this site. I bought the test kit and have been doing lots of half water changes (almost daily). Below is the tests until now. I am wondering if I should be doing a few more daily changes until the ammonia is 0, or if weekly half changes is enough now?
Jan-12
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
water change: half
Jan-13
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrate ?
Nitrite ?
water change: half
Jan-15
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
water change: half
Jan-20
Ammonia ?
Nitrate ?
Nitrite?
water change: half
Jan-21
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
water change: none
Jan-24
Ammonia ?
Nitrate ?
Nitrite ?
water change: half
Jan-28
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate ?
Nitrite?
water change: half
Jan-29
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 1
water change: none
My next question is my gold fish jumped out of the tank when the lid was off and part of the top fin is damaged... Thankfully I was in the room and got him back in his tank. He appears to be swimming around fine. Should I be worried about any possible infections? I think he was jumping around because the tank is too small for the amount of fish. Only a 10g with the 3 goldfish. I am currently keeping my eyes out on craigslist for any deals on a tank probably a 50-70g.
I had fish as a kid, and the tanks been in storage for 15yrs. I got interested in in fish again when my sister went our and bought some goldfish, but never set up the tank. She decided to stick them in a jam jar and deal with it after work the next day. I woke up and noticed the fish where dying and rushed to the fish store, bought some supplies and pulled the ol' 10g out of storage. Well I managed to nurse the fish back to life, and its 6 months old now. I did not know about cycling at the time and did water changes every few weeks. (Prob why a few of the fish died)
As of right now I have 4 goldfish, 1 basic gold fish, 2 fantail, and 1 unknown.
Over Christmas break I had no choice but to buy a 10 day feeder, and upon getting home noticed tonnes of algae in the tank. Me not knowing a lot about fish keeping decided to move the fish to a bucket, and do a full clean of the tank, probably killing a lot of bacteria. Thankfully none of the fish died, and I found this site. I bought the test kit and have been doing lots of half water changes (almost daily). Below is the tests until now. I am wondering if I should be doing a few more daily changes until the ammonia is 0, or if weekly half changes is enough now?
Jan-12
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
water change: half
Jan-13
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrate ?
Nitrite ?
water change: half
Jan-15
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
water change: half
Jan-20
Ammonia ?
Nitrate ?
Nitrite?
water change: half
Jan-21
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
water change: none
Jan-24
Ammonia ?
Nitrate ?
Nitrite ?
water change: half
Jan-28
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrate ?
Nitrite?
water change: half
Jan-29
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 1
water change: none
My next question is my gold fish jumped out of the tank when the lid was off and part of the top fin is damaged... Thankfully I was in the room and got him back in his tank. He appears to be swimming around fine. Should I be worried about any possible infections? I think he was jumping around because the tank is too small for the amount of fish. Only a 10g with the 3 goldfish. I am currently keeping my eyes out on craigslist for any deals on a tank probably a 50-70g.