Recent content by melissasfish

essjay, Sorry for the confusion. The ammonia level is only at 0.25. I had a typo. We did a major water change last night. I have been buying the filters from walmart which have a mesh outside and you have to poor a bag of carbon into it and then place it on a holder. I also have the sealed...

Ok so I went and got some test strips. Here are the results. Ammonia 2.5 ppm Nitrate 40 nitrite safe alkalinity 300 PH 7.8 Hardness 150 Please if someone can tell me what to do. I just had another fish die and it was one of the babies. My fish are dying faster and faster. Fluttermoth: You...

We change our filters not clean then and we change about 5 gallons every 2-3 weeks. We usually get our water ready and let it sit for a few days so that the temp can get to room temp. I have been told by friend that have tanks that i should not be changing the water at all just the filters. I am...

we have had this tank for about 4-5 months now. I am not sure what 'cycled' means. before we added any fish we had water in the tank for about 2-3 weeks. we started out with 5 platys and a sucker and we have since then had 2 seperate batched of babies 5 babies in each and 3 of the original fish...

Request Help Tank size:29 gallon pH: ammonia: nitrite: nitrate: kH: gH: tank temp:80 degrees Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): Our fish all look normal to us but then one by one they start to die. The fish starts by sitting at...