Recent content by Monad

I got some established filter media from the fish store where I bought my loaches and plants. I didn't add the loaches until after I added my snail. I did get an ammonia spike and a nitrite spike before I added any animals. However both lasted a very short time and when I added more ammonia, the...

Right now I have some Kuhli Loaches and I'm loving the little guys. I plan on adding some sparkling gouramis later once my tank is cycled a bit more and or some small tetras. Right now the plants are going crazy keeping the nitrates low. They're not even showing up in the water tests.

Sure. I made a post about it on the tank photo thread but here it is. I added some Java ferns too. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/two-week-and-three-day-old-tank.492664/

Hi there. As the subject says, this is my pretty new tank. I've got a partial cycle done. The ammonia only started rising from zero again after I put in the first fish. Right now it's still positive, but it's definitely below 0.25ppm. No nitrites. No nitrates. I think the plants are sucking...

Hello. A little more than two weeks ago I bought a Fluval Spec 16. I've finished the cycle, though after adding my first fish my ammonia has risen but is still staying below 0.25 ppm. So far the life in the tank besides to bacteria consists of a hornwort, dwarf water lettuce, a nerite snail...

I'm Monad. I've been wanting to keep fish for years. My dream is one day having a reef tank. For now, I'm starting with a 16 gallon blackwater tank. It's about two weeks old, cycled, planted, and has three fish and a snail.