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    Setting up

    so still haven't added the fish, i thought the ammonia was at 0 so i had to wait for my daughter to come home, and the color so close, its actually at .25
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    Setting up

    did another 75% water change and finally i have the ammonia down.
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    Setting up

    no i do not have any fish in it yet, i got it second hand, so i am not sure where the ammonia is coming from. and its at .50, not 1.0. i am trying to set it up for the fish. i bought a brand new filter for it. and have had it running now for at least 3 weeks in the tank. still dont know what...
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    Setting up

    Ok right out of my tap water, my nitrite, nitrate and ammonia is 0ppm. the ph is at 7.6 and the ph high is 7.8. this is straight out of the tap. from pet store I used python multi purpose bio clean, API ph down, and Nutrafin aqua plus
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    Setting up

    Ok right out of my tap water, my nitrite, nitrate and ammonia is 0ppm. the ph is at 7.6 and the ph high is 7.8. this is straight out of the tap. I did a 75% water change today and even after that, the tanks readings are Ph 7.6 and ph high 7.8. ammonia is .50, nitrite and nitrate are 0. So I...
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    Setting up

    ok so this was new water, i did the water change, still high ammonia, at 1 so i added some stuff from pet store, and got it down to .025 which i guess is still to high?
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    Setting up

    I have 2 black more goldfish in a small tank, so I purchased a used 40 gal tank and I am trying to set it up. But I don't know if my ph and ammonia levels are to high to put them into the tank, I never had this problem with the small tank, my Ph level is at 7.2 and my ph high range is 8.2 the...
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    fish stuck in another fish mouth

    Well they did tell me they don't like to be alone, never said in groups of 6, probably because they only had 3 in the tank. so I bought all 3 and they seemed fine.
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    fish stuck in another fish mouth

    the guy at the fish pet store said to pull out with tweezers. He said to move it from side to side to try and get the barbed spine. Which I had a hard time doing. He also said that because I could still see the tail it wasn't into the stomach area where it could do a lot of damage pulling it...
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    fish stuck in another fish mouth

    btw it was a pet store that suggested the cory in the first place, said they would do well together. Guess they were wrong. so i just called a pet store that specializes in fish, and he told me how to get the cory out. So i have removed it, and i am going to take the other cory to the pet store...
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    fish stuck in another fish mouth

    i only have one aquarium, i just went and got another one but a little to late I guess. Mind you now i only have one left and they dont like to be alone, so going to buy more when i get the other tank set up. But the other fish is a black moor gold fish
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    fish stuck in another fish mouth

    My fish has had a cory cat in its mouth for 2 days now, I tried to pull it out but its stuck, I don't want to yank because of the spines of the cory cat. and obviously fish cant seem to swallow it or spit it out, she did this a month ago and spit out that one within hours, well this time its...
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