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We don't have a sponge filter in there right now, but I have the sponges from my established shrimp tank I can put in there... it was planted though, so I'm not sure how much beneficial bacteria is on them. I'll keep testing it every day or every other day. My thought was that we'd be seeing...

There's only plastic plants in the tank we took from. And about 7 big fish (5-6 in) and 5 small fish.

I read the post about silent cycling. That's partially why I was wondering if my tank had in fact cycled or at least partway. I attached a pic. There's 5 plants in there, but they're not fully grown.

I did not clean the ceramics lol. They went straight from the established tank to the new tank still dripping wet from the filter.

Sorry, 40b is 40g breeder. We used a mesh bagful of ceramic media that's been in our established tank for almost a year. In addition some of the plants came from an established tank, so likely had some bacteria on it. We tested for nitrites, but unfortunately only today so I can't tell if it...

Set up a 40b a week and a half ago. Added quickstart and filter media from one of our established tanks (been running almost 2 years). Added a few small fish to help with the ammonia to feed the bacteria from the filter media, and about 5 plants. Just tested our water today, and there's 0s...

Tank size: 36g tank age: 4 months pH: 8 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 10 - 20 tank temp: 78 Volume and Frequency of water changes: weekly, 30-40% Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: prime Tank inhabitants: 5 danios (2 glofish, 3 regular), 5 glofish tetras, 1 dalmatian molly adult, 1...

Hey all, long time no post. Well one of my glofish danios has what looks like an erupted cyst on the side of it. Pretty nasty looking. I put it in a hospital tank and salted it. Is there anything else I can do for my fish?

I love the glass snail! Very cute. I like the tank layout too. Hopefully your betta gets to feeling better and beats ich

Thanks everyone for the help! I never knew that the labels at pet stores could be so generic or off.

We do have one that has a spot that looks like yo but none of the others have it. I wonder if we got one yoyo and the rest zebra?

It does look like this. When I Google botia histrionica it appears to go by the common name golden zebra loach as well. Certainly confusing! As long as I know the approximate size and that they're all the same I'm happy lol.