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The shrimp were all pretty immature at the store so I wasn't able to sex them.  I'm waiting on the store to bring in my HC and a small group of Endler's livebearers.  I'll wait until that's all settled before adding more shrimp to avoid stressing the tank more than I need to.   I only got the...

  Thanks for the warning. My local shop will take extras.

Half the tank is pretty densely planted.  I'm waiting for some Dwarf Baby Tears to finish off the other side.   I'll just wait it out.  It's a fairly new tank so I didn't want to just drop a bunch of shrimp in there although I understand that they prefer larger communities.  If I can find them...

I just added a pair of cherry shrimp to my fairly new 10 gal. tank.  It's cycled an has had three honey gouramis living pretty happily in it for the past two weeks.  All the stats seem good.   Since I added the shrimp, I have only seen them twice.  Both times a shrimp had managed to get it's...

Thanks,  they're eating better now so it might just have been an adjustment period.  I'm still going to pick up some bloodworms or tubifex today now that the blizzard has passed.

Ok, I'll wait on the shrimp until the tank is more established if at all. 

Hi all,     My 10gal cycled last week and it appears to be doing well so I need some help with my stocking choices.  I've read a bunch of great threads on here for ideas but want to pinpoint any problem areas.   I currently have 2 Honey Gouramis, 1 male and 1 female.   I was planning on adding...

The endler's were purchased the day before I got there so I went back to my original plan and bought two Honey Gouramis.  They seem pretty perky today but one keeps spitting food out.  Hopefully that isn't going to be a problem.   One other thing I noticed is that there is a very thin greyish...

Great link! Thanks!   Just did the 110% water change and the nitrate is at 6-7ppm.  My tap is 5ppm so that's as good as I can get.

Thanks for the tip about the partial refill to flush the nitrate.   I plan on starting with 6 Endler's livebearers just because the local store doesn't usually stock them and they have a good looking school right now.  I was going to let them settle for a week or so before adding a couple Honey...

 I wish I could blame that on drinking but it was 9am.  Great catch and that obviously explains the problem.  So my tank has been stable with one hiccup for the past week.  I guess we're ready for fish!  The snails that hitchhiked in on the plants seem to be happy in there.

Same test every time and it's been a very steady increase in nitrates so I don't think i've had a bad reading due to my error.  All I'm adding is enough ammonia to bring it up to 4ppm once a day at 8pm.   It's stabilized nicely so my real concern is still the high nitrate reading after a 90%...

Bumpity bump bump.

So 24 hours after my last ammonia bump to 4ppm the ammonia and nitrite are zeroed, the ph is stable and the nitrates are at 80+.   Is this good? Is this bad? What's your favorite color?  I love lamp....

So i've been adding 4ppm of ammonia every night at 7:30 and it's zeroing out by the next night.  Since the h2o change however that's not the case.  24 hours since my last ammonia addition and I'm at .25ppm ammonia and .5ppm nitrite.  The nitrates are still climbing, they look pretty close to 80...