Hello there ive been talking in the fish forum IRC for about a month now.So heres my back story
I went out to buy 6 mollys and 1 common pleco the night when i wanted to get fish i have never heard of cycling a tank back then.So i got the fish then i was new so i jsut let them be for 2 weeks then one day my lyretail molly died.So it raised a red flag i came to this forum and saw the chat button at top witch i meat Deto, Mik, tolak, cod, and jp. They told me to go get some stat checkers so i did so every thing was really high they told me to do a 80% wc so i did so then the next day ammo went up did another 80% then the nitrite started going up to 3+ EVERY DAY I WOKE UP so the fish kept dying off slowly untill this week i have 1 molly and 1 common pleco left in the tank.. Deto told me to get the *BEEPING* pleco out of the tank like she has been since i joined. So i did so hes in a 5g waiting for me to bring him back to the pet store..Now theres a big bump on my mollys back now he has a skin infection from the bad water conditions.Now theres A HUGE argue in IRC about if i should restart my tank by putting sand in the bottom witch i have gravel now since the water is infected with my last mollys thingy on his back .So also by putting my pleco in the 5g my nitrite was 0.6 after a wc and then i woke up the next morning it was 0 so getting rid of the pleco made the nitrite go down.. i have no clue what to do from this point on... I also got media from a friend witch never helped at all with the cycling
1) Keep molly + gravel and add 2 guppies once it's cycled
2) Keep molly + switch to sand, add 2 guppies if it is cycled.
3) give molly, switch to sand, do fishless cycle, get 6 guppies
4) give molly, leave gravel, fishless cycle, get 6 guppies.
PS i know having a common pleco for a 15g is to small..
I went out to buy 6 mollys and 1 common pleco the night when i wanted to get fish i have never heard of cycling a tank back then.So i got the fish then i was new so i jsut let them be for 2 weeks then one day my lyretail molly died.So it raised a red flag i came to this forum and saw the chat button at top witch i meat Deto, Mik, tolak, cod, and jp. They told me to go get some stat checkers so i did so every thing was really high they told me to do a 80% wc so i did so then the next day ammo went up did another 80% then the nitrite started going up to 3+ EVERY DAY I WOKE UP so the fish kept dying off slowly untill this week i have 1 molly and 1 common pleco left in the tank.. Deto told me to get the *BEEPING* pleco out of the tank like she has been since i joined. So i did so hes in a 5g waiting for me to bring him back to the pet store..Now theres a big bump on my mollys back now he has a skin infection from the bad water conditions.Now theres A HUGE argue in IRC about if i should restart my tank by putting sand in the bottom witch i have gravel now since the water is infected with my last mollys thingy on his back .So also by putting my pleco in the 5g my nitrite was 0.6 after a wc and then i woke up the next morning it was 0 so getting rid of the pleco made the nitrite go down.. i have no clue what to do from this point on... I also got media from a friend witch never helped at all with the cycling
1) Keep molly + gravel and add 2 guppies once it's cycled
2) Keep molly + switch to sand, add 2 guppies if it is cycled.
3) give molly, switch to sand, do fishless cycle, get 6 guppies
4) give molly, leave gravel, fishless cycle, get 6 guppies.
PS i know having a common pleco for a 15g is to small..