Recent content by thothtp

Last fish dies this morning. All I have left are the shrimp now. Can you still cycle with just shrimp and plants?

Yep, every time, especially since our water does sometimes have a chlorine smell. Using Seachem Prime. It is a little hard to dose however, since it calls for 5ml for 50 gallons, and my water changes are only about 1.5-5 gallons. Might be averaging on the high dose side since so little is needed.

Tested it again last night and saw .25, so I did a water change. Checked it today at lunch and it was up to .5 already. did an 80% water change, and now my guppy who was fine before the water change is hanging out at the surface gasping for air and acting very skittish. I don't understand...

That's the thing, I have been doing water changes all along. Not daily at first, but it has been daily since I got my last 2 fish, both of which have now died. Is it possible there is some disease that you can't really see that spread between the fish but doesn't effect the shrimp? I am...

Update: So I have been using my test kit, and changing about 25% of the water once or twice a day. Ammonia is never above .25, nitrites are still 0. Today another guppy died. Showed no symptoms, was perfectly fine, then I came home today and he was gone. All my shrimp seem to be perfectly...

one thing i forgot to mention, i do have a few live plants in the tank as well, they came with the shrimp. i have a moss ball, some java moss, very small amounts of crystalwort and subwassertang, an anubias, some najas grass, and some hornwort. pretty small amounts of each. i noticed one of...

Too long didnt read, skip to last paragraph. Otherwise, here it he full story. I am a newbie having some issues with cycling. I received a 6 gallon Fluval Edge tank for Christmas, and set it up per the instructions as this was my first tank. Conditioned my tap water with the included...