Hello all!
My name is Katie. I'm new to the forum and new to having fish. To keep it short, I have a 20 gallon tank with 2 mollies, 3 cobra guppies, 2 skunk catfish cories, 1 african dwarf frog, and 1 gourami. I started my tank about 1-2 weeks ago. I used the filter it came with-tetra whisper. But my uncle came and gave me his external fluval 203 filter. I sit the filter up yesterday. When I first set up the tank I added tetra safe start (I know people are against using it but I am impatient and new so I just did it... The fish seemed fine.) Petsmart is my closest fish store so every water sample I've taken there they've said everything was fine. Yesterday I had to drive about an hour to an aquarium store who had the media and filter items for the fluval 203. While I was there I had my water tested and my ammonia and nitrite are high about 1.0 each. (I bought the master test kit as well and have been testing since yesterday and it is still the same). The worker at the store told me to use seachems stability. So I've been using that since yesterday. So my question is should I continue to use stability with my new fluval filter or should I start all over? Because I am extremely scared about my high ammonia and nitrite levels I know my tank is cycling but as of now I think it would be better to start fresh again then to keep using stability. Please please help !!!!!
I know my question is long but I figure the more information the better right!!!! Please help!!
Thank you!
My name is Katie. I'm new to the forum and new to having fish. To keep it short, I have a 20 gallon tank with 2 mollies, 3 cobra guppies, 2 skunk catfish cories, 1 african dwarf frog, and 1 gourami. I started my tank about 1-2 weeks ago. I used the filter it came with-tetra whisper. But my uncle came and gave me his external fluval 203 filter. I sit the filter up yesterday. When I first set up the tank I added tetra safe start (I know people are against using it but I am impatient and new so I just did it... The fish seemed fine.) Petsmart is my closest fish store so every water sample I've taken there they've said everything was fine. Yesterday I had to drive about an hour to an aquarium store who had the media and filter items for the fluval 203. While I was there I had my water tested and my ammonia and nitrite are high about 1.0 each. (I bought the master test kit as well and have been testing since yesterday and it is still the same). The worker at the store told me to use seachems stability. So I've been using that since yesterday. So my question is should I continue to use stability with my new fluval filter or should I start all over? Because I am extremely scared about my high ammonia and nitrite levels I know my tank is cycling but as of now I think it would be better to start fresh again then to keep using stability. Please please help !!!!!
I know my question is long but I figure the more information the better right!!!! Please help!!
Thank you!