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That's good to know about the gravid spot. I took her out of the 10 gal soon after making the post, I figured it was better to be on the safe side. I have at least eight fry, I don't know if she ate any or if any got sucked into the filter. I stuck some sponge in the intake of my aquaclear to...

I bought a new swordtail 2 weeks ago, who was pregnant. Yesterday I realized she was pregnant, and today she's dropped fry! They are still in the quarantine tank and I see 3 of them. The mother is still in there as I just came home from work to find them. My question is: when will I know...

So I'm nearing the end of my fishless cycle. The bacteria is able to go through 5ppm ammonia to nitrites to nitrates in about 12 hours or so for last week. But now I have some questions: This is my tank: 29 gal eheim 2215 classic topfin heater (for up to 30 gals) bubble wall Pool filter sand...

Well I only did the 50% change because it was an hour before I needed to go to bed, so I wanted to be able to take a pH reading before going to sleep. If it drops again I plan to do a larger change, but it was so late at the time and 6 hours of sleep doesn't really agree with me. Today when I...

I did about a 50% water change last night and about an hour later my pH was at about 7.4. I didn't add any ammonia as I figured it might be better to just let the what was in there get processed and see what my pH was today. My pH is still the same and the ammonia was all processed today...

Awesome, thanks! I was considering doing a water change as I knew that the low pH could mess things up, but wasn't sure if doing so would change anything (or screw things up.)

So I restarted my fishless cycle after the first time not going well. I splurged on an external filter, got different ammonia and changed my substrate to sand for my cories. I also threw in some amazon swords I bought in the hope to kinda seed the bacteria. Everything was going wonderfully...

Today I did further tests and everything is still the same. Nitrites and Nitrates both at 0 and ammonia at 4ppm.(at least I'm pretty sure, 4ppm and 8ppm on the api kit is horribly close in color) Should I just tear it down, clean everything and go with an ammonia that is known to work? Do...

Would this be better? Essentially, I had a small tank and wanted some fish that would theoretically be able to live with the betta I received at a wedding. I got three fish at a chain pet store, and when one got popeye I found out about cycling. Also I got three fish that are schooling fish...

Darn. I'm terrified that I got the wrong ammonia and have been wasting time while my poor little fishies in my uncycled, poorly set up 10 gal survive. Hopefully this starts happening soon so I can rectify my prior mistakes and get my fish into a better tank.

Nitrites and Nitrates: both at 0 pH: 8 temp: 86F (30C)

It has been three weeks today since I started cycling my 29 gal tank. I have a Penguin 200 power filter, heater and am using the only ammonia I could find that wasn't lemon or foamy when shaken. Unfortunately it didn't have any ingredients on the label. My ammonia levels haven't gone down at...