Recent content by Bruno

Still cycling my tanks, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but... Jay I think you are missing an important step - you need to add enough ammonia to get your water up to 2 ppm or even 3 ppm. Add the ammonia, wait 15 or 20 minutes for it to mix into your water and use your test kit to see if...

Makes complete sense, though what happens in your main tank? In that senario you lost 25% of your bacteria but have the same amount of fish... so how fast will the bacteria come back up to speed? How much stress are you putting on the main tank? I am assuming there would be a need to do more...

While waiting for tanks to cycle I have been doing reading, and am considering setting up a quarantine tank so all my hard work on getting the tanks ready isnt for nothing. How many here use one? My biggest concern is my bacteria - obviously I want a 'cycled' tank for quarantine use, but how do...

Even better today, so I am going to assume the wrong ammonia was not a big mistake and carry on. Here is my Nitrite reading tonight  

I thik I am ok, from the look of this test I have Nitrites starting to appear

Doing a fishless cycle and I went and bought ammonia to add. I checked the label and it lists only water and ammonium hydroxide. I only now noticed a thread that said to shake it and if it bubbles don't use it. I shook mine and it bubbled up like little soap bubbles. I found a different brand...

so shook the hell out of both the Nutrafin and API nitrate agents and seen slight nitrates in the tank. Again, I did a large water change yesterday so maybe that is not surprising now. But on the plus side no ammonia or nitrites either.

No, it is a fish in cycle as I hadn't found this site till after getting bad advice at other sites :( SO there are 6 danios in there providing ammonia for me, and last week I was seeing some ammonia, a fair amount of nitrites and 40ppm or more of nitrates. The ammonia read zero for the first...

Thanks for catching the i vs a :) I fixed the orginal post so it reads correctly. I'll go shake the #2 nitrate bottle real good and test again... Oops, I just did about an 80% PWC so I guess I will wait till tomorrow night and test again, this time REALLY shaking that nitrate bottle. Thanks...

So our first tank started a fish in cycle on March 24.  The first couple of weeks we took water samples in to the LFS but after that bought a Nutrafin test kit and I have been checking daily. I watched ammonia go up, then nitrites, then ammonia go down and nitrates appear and nitrites have been...

it is 30" long, 13" deep and 24" high

So what would be good tank mates to an angel fish? He would really like to have angelfish so we may just keep the 20 gal as well as the 37, leave the danio in the 20 and put an angelfish or 2 in the 37. If we go that route I think I can stock the 20 from the suggestions above, but what would you...