picothepleco
New Member
Hi all, I'm not necessarily a beginner. I have a 46 gal. Bowfront that has been up and running for about six years, but for those six years it has been at my mother's house because I didn't have the time for it then. About a month ago, I finally moved it to my house, which is about two hours away, the move went well and I didn't lose any fish. In fact my paramiters were pretty awesome except I did have really high nitrates about 40 ppm. Apparently I had to re-cycle my tank, despite the fact that I saved as much of the water as possible and kept the substrate in the same water. I was doing water changes at about 20% in hopes that would lower my nitrates but my PH and nitrates kept climbing. Finally, after doing a 50% this last week everthing is back to where it should be. I only lost one fish, an albino cory, which I had bought for my daughter. I also lost my snail. Currently my tank is planted with lots of java fern, one marimo ball, some other kinds of plants that I can't seem to remember the name of (I bought them to help with my nitrates), and a banana plant. I also have several pieces of bogwood. My tank has four platys (one is a small fry about a half inch long), a rainbow shark that is about three or four inches long, a snowball pleco, one albino cory, a spotted Ctenopoma (I don't mind if it eats the platy fry) and another snail.
