Ghostriderphoto
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K... I purchased a 10 gallon tank at Walmart with gravel, tetra filter and fake plants. I brought it home and set it up that night. I let it run for 2 days to settle and followed through with the Walmart recommendation of adding fish at least 24 hours after the tank settled. I now have 2 young pink kissing gouramis. I have had them about two weeks... I did temporarily have them in a marineland 37g column tank until it cracked and I had to put them back in the cycling 10g.
I am on EXCELLENT well water. Currently my parameters are...
Ammo: .25-.50 color looks in between
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10ppm
Ph: 7.6
API Master test kit
I did two days using "nutrafin cycle" before getting the 37g thinking I would move them into the 37g and push the 10g through its cycle before moving them back to the 10g to push the 37g through its cycle. So I stopped the nutrafin cycle and did not add anymore even after moving the fish back to the ten gallon when the 37g broke. I now have a dry 50g that I need to set up and cycle for the gouramis.
I did get some gravel from the lfs two days ago and it ended up on top of the gravel in the ten gallon when my neighbor released the fish in the ten gallon during the emergency transfer. I don't know what is going on. I have not seen any nitrites throughout this whole process. I am thinking there are low trace amounts of nitrite because when I dip the 5 n1 strip in there is the SLIGHTEST shade of pink, but almost unnoticeable.
After having the 37g break 36 hours after setting it up... I'm a bit uneasy about putting fifty gallons of water in the new tank! Any help would be great....
I am on EXCELLENT well water. Currently my parameters are...
Ammo: .25-.50 color looks in between
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10ppm
Ph: 7.6
API Master test kit
I did two days using "nutrafin cycle" before getting the 37g thinking I would move them into the 37g and push the 10g through its cycle before moving them back to the 10g to push the 37g through its cycle. So I stopped the nutrafin cycle and did not add anymore even after moving the fish back to the ten gallon when the 37g broke. I now have a dry 50g that I need to set up and cycle for the gouramis.
I did get some gravel from the lfs two days ago and it ended up on top of the gravel in the ten gallon when my neighbor released the fish in the ten gallon during the emergency transfer. I don't know what is going on. I have not seen any nitrites throughout this whole process. I am thinking there are low trace amounts of nitrite because when I dip the 5 n1 strip in there is the SLIGHTEST shade of pink, but almost unnoticeable.
After having the 37g break 36 hours after setting it up... I'm a bit uneasy about putting fifty gallons of water in the new tank! Any help would be great....