beginner_fish
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Hi, I am a beginner to this and have started a 10G tropical fish tank and this is around the 8th day. Perhaps due to the lack of enough knowledge, I am doing a cycling with fish started with Tetra Aqua Safe Start and fish - 2 serpae tetra and 1 Long fin gold Danio. In a few days I noticed that my tap water being used for partial water cycle seemed to have ammonia even after Tetra Aqua Safe so after reading I started using Seachem Prime. Recently I bought the Seachem Ammonia Altert. I currently have the Jungle Dip Kits for other tests.
Observations:
The test observations with test strips are Nitrate around 0 Safe, Hardness 150 Hard, Chlorine Safe 0, Alkaline Ideal 180, ph Alkaline 7.8 +
Free Ammonia Alert at Alert 0.05 ppm
The Danio kept chasing the tetra's quite often moving them to a corner whenever the would come out . So I moved the Tetras out as I would prefer active but peaceful fish - not chasing each other / troubling each other majorly . I am doing a daily partial water change 15-20-25% by removing older water with a cup and pouring in similarly recently taken tap water treated with prime (not suction).
Being a beginner am I doing something wrongly, is there something I need to change? I can't do a major change like move to fishless cycling but if some smaller changes would help - please advise.
Also any suggestion on colorful fish if possible. Thanks.
Observations:
The test observations with test strips are Nitrate around 0 Safe, Hardness 150 Hard, Chlorine Safe 0, Alkaline Ideal 180, ph Alkaline 7.8 +
Free Ammonia Alert at Alert 0.05 ppm
The Danio kept chasing the tetra's quite often moving them to a corner whenever the would come out . So I moved the Tetras out as I would prefer active but peaceful fish - not chasing each other / troubling each other majorly . I am doing a daily partial water change 15-20-25% by removing older water with a cup and pouring in similarly recently taken tap water treated with prime (not suction).
Being a beginner am I doing something wrongly, is there something I need to change? I can't do a major change like move to fishless cycling but if some smaller changes would help - please advise.
Also any suggestion on colorful fish if possible. Thanks.