Just got a 29 gallon. Had it running for about 12-14 days before putting fish in it. Added 4 scissortail rasboras, 3 red eye tetras, and 1 cherry barb Saturday from my 55 gallon that I was redecorating and had an emergency with... Got a post on that. Sunday my son added 3 tiny catfish looking things with strips that suck the sides and 4 shrimp from the pet store. As of today I have from what I can see. 1 red eye, 1 scissortail, 2 stripped cats, and 2 shrimp. Here's the test results using a 6 in 1 tetra strip kit. 20 nitrate. 3.0 nitrate. 300 hardness. 0 chlorine. Maybe 120 hard to read blueish color alkalinity. Ph alkaline was a pale hot pink hard to read also, between 7.8/8.4. And my ammonia liquid test was .25 at least but wasn't green green like the .50. Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated.