Recent content by bpd0110

returning the fish tomorrow. Luckily the guy is nice and is allowing me to.... Then I will begin cycling it PROPERLY.

****ing hate my ex. Never told me i needed to add ammonia and fish food. well ive been testing the water and doing changes everyday and will continue it. Thank you for the help.

Basically I did cycle it for a month, however I never was told to buy ammonia in a bottle lol... anyways my ex gf (was gf at the time) gave me a betta because she had an extra one. I bought some other fish as well, then AFTER i put them all in a tank, she mentions "oh we should have cycled the...

getting some bio media tmrow from the local fish shop. It's weird, the tank never started producing that brown algae until like a month after the tank had already been filled with water.... I'm hypothesizing it was the driftwood in combination with what you stated. I detoxed the driftwood a...

Thank you! Got a huge thing of bottled bacteria. Testing the water again soon....

So the one I threw away I still have. Should I throw it back in?

what kind of source of ammonia? I was never told of this : (

Yes actually the gravel is substrate. The filter has beads from a friend's tank. The filter was from that tank as well, but I changed it a few days ago for the first time in a month, because it was so dirty.... I believe it's still in my trash.

I need help with my tank. I cycled it for about a month, and it's still having issues. I have one beta and 2 gold rings. Before I put the fish in, the tank had gotten really brown. Brown particularly on the walls of the tank. I mostly scrubbed that off the walls before I added the fish. However...

Gotcha. I will start doing daily water changes right now. I'll test the soil right now.Thank you so much.

Well someone else had just mentioned to me to only do a 25-50% water change every 3 days or so... What about dead plants? Do they give off anything toxic at all? Tomorrow night we actually are just about to take the water and fish out, take out those rocks and throw them away, add more soil...

So I just got this tank and fish last week, unfortunately they were a gift, so I wasn't able to cycle. However, the ammonia levels are still pretty high. These are the levels just 30 minutes ago. I did a 50% water change yesterday, and 25% the day before. What I'm wondering is that- are the...