Recent content by kepardue

So far the fish seem to be hanging in there, but but the ammonia levels are still way too high. I'm at work at the moment, but the levels are somewhere between 1.0 and 1.5 at my best judgment. Right now all I have are dip strips for testing, but I've read here and elsewhere that these are...

Thanks so much for the advice. I'm afraid I did perhaps jump in a little prematurely, and hadn't really educated myself about cycling. That said, a good portion of the water in the new 20 gallon tank came from the old 10 gallon tank, where there were 3 neon tetras and 3 harlequins that had...

Well, guess that answers my question about the yellow guppie. Just a few minutes later I noticed the little fella bobbing in the water and falling to the bottom of the tank. He's still alive, but I'm pretty sure he's not going to make it. I read somewhere that adding a lot of fish to a tank...

So I've had a fish tank for a while with some goldfish, but they didn't survive the power outage of the last hurricane. Recently, I've been thinking of getting some new fish and decided to upgrade from a 10 gallon to a 20 gallon tank, filling it instead with tropical fish. Presently, 8 neon...