Recent content by charlotte!

I've got prime so thats good. How much should I add, just follow the bottle? It says 1 capful for every 50 gallons so I'm thinking a little less than half full? After the cycle will it be fine to still use the water with ammonia or should I try and use another source? I don't know if it's bad...

My water does have ammonia :crazy: whats the best product to use? and i left my tank a week with nothing to feed the bacteria so its not cycled anymore :shout: definitely will be waiting a while for the shrimp, maybe theyll do better once its actually cycled

UUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I didn't know that would happen!!!!!!!!!!!!! will it take a while to cycle again or will it be quicker since there's already some bacteria? Yeah I guess I might as well just move the guppies then. I think they'll be happier without the other fish. Will adding a lot of...

Not a long time, but a decent time so I thought it was cycling. It went up a lot and decreased over time, about a month total which i thought was normal. I didn't test everyday so I'm not really sure how long each level stayed up. Do you think it cycled and I killed off the bacteria? I don't see...

Ok so at one point ammonia went way up along with nitrates and nitrites and stayed like that for a while. A couple weeks ago, maybe a little more, the nitrates were really high. I did a big water change today, could that be why theres none? My ammonias at .25 ppm but I just tested the water I've...

I thought I've read a lot of times just putting it in the tank is enough if you have the filter. People say to put gravel and stuff from other tanks and those can't go in filters so wouldn't it be pointless? I'm really confused. The shrimp was dead, I should have said that sorry. A huge one...

Alright, water change is done. I'm not sure why I had ammonia if the tanks cycled- now I'm kind of worried :blink: Maybe I didn't do a big enough water change after it finished cycling. I'm pretty sure my water doesn't have ammonia but I'll test it. Right now the tanks down to 0 though. Do the...

I've had a 20 gal going for about a month and a half, its been cycled a couple weeks. I had problems with the fish not getting along so I'm starting a 10 gal for just guppies. In the 20 gal the filter has been running with the same media the whole time. The gravel I added a couple weeks ago and...

If I do a 60% will it affect the cycled water? someone told me to only do 25% so it wont start over (or something like that, I'm not too sure). And yeah that's what I was thinking about the guppy that died. I feel really bad, I didn't even consider that being a problem. Should I be worried about...

I've had my 20 gal about a month and it's finished cycling (fishless cycle with dead shrimp). Wednesday I went and got fish for it. 2 male guppies, 2 female guppies, 1 boesmani rainbow, 5 ghost shrimp and 1 balloon belly molly. Before this I got 3 cherry shrimp which died in an hour. The ghost...