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Aquaboy on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 |
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I have an empty 30 gallon right now. This is my first fish tank.
1 Is it okay if I add substrate after the cycle or during or will there be any changes?
2 My main question is how much pure ammonia EXACTLY do I add to the water? I have a testing kit
3 Also how high do I fill the water to- all the way to the top of the tank?
4 How long can I expect the cycle to take for a 30 gallon? I read it can take 3-8 weeks but I’m not sure it will really take up to 8?
Please answer the questions above and any practical ones you can think of.
I plan on getting 2 or 3 lionhead/ranchu goldfish.
5 Can I add 2 of the fish at first or will it be bad to (after the cycle is complete of course)?
I am doing a fishless cycle because I would really regret if any fish died by just adding them in with no cycling.
How large should the gravel be so the goldfish won’t choke and die on it?
I don’t have any water from an established tank. I want to get full-grown goldfish. ***I just don’t know much much ammonia to put.** I have no idea.
***If I add one fish at a time each week at a time (for 2 or 3 weeks=2 or 3 fish) will they be okay? Meaning if I do not cycle at all and add the fish, but still test the waters each day as I add them?
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Aquaboy on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 |
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does it also change the ammonia and nitirte to nitrate.
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Aquaboy on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 |
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I have a 35 gallon freshwater aquarium. I’ve had it for a number of months. I do about a 50% water change once a week, or every couple of weeks. I also have a test kit so that I can test ammonia, nitrite, etc. My question: I found one of my angel fish dead on the bottom of the tank yesterday. I have only had him for 6 months or so. He wasn’t showing any signs of illness and wasn’t lethargic. I just did a partial water change the week before. When I tested the ammonia levels they were elevated. What caused this? Every other time I have tested the ammonia levels were at zero. (Btw, there were 2 angel fish, 2 bottom feeders, 3 mollies and a few guppies in the tank, so it didn’t seem overcrowded)
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Aquaboy on Saturday, July 17th, 2010 |
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I’m guessing I just have to wait it out, but I am not sure. I have 3 pristella tetras (x-ray) and they look healthy. 2 of the 3 have really red tails and the other looks OK, just doesn’t have the color in the tail that the others do… I’m guessing I just have to wait for the levels to rise and come down, but I’m not 100% sure… Please help me with any opinions.
Thanks!
My tank is 20 gallons. The test kits don’t expire until March ’09.
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Aquaboy on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 |
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i cycled my fishtank with fish and one of my cory catfish turned sort of pale. It might of been because of high amonia levels . I finished cycling the tank and everything is fine. Would regain his color and would his gills keep buring. Is there any medication for something like that
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Aquaboy on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 |
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I have a filtered and heated 10 gallon with a betta on one side of the divider and a juvenile dwarf puffer on the other side with some ghost shrimp.
I did a 30 percent water change on Monday, and yesterday my ammonia was around a whopping 2.0. I hurriedly made my way to wal-mart, and purchased Jungle Ammonia Clear Tank Buddies. They are white tablets that fizz up and remove ammonia.
The direction said use one tab per 10 gallons, and two if the ammonia is very high, so I used two.
Today the tank is COMPLETELY clouded over, and the ammonia is 0.
What is going on? The tank cycled for 3 weeks before I added the fish.
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Aquaboy on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 |
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My tank still has 0.5 ppm ammonia despite me conducting a 30% water change this afternoon. However, my tank is NOT completely cycled and is in the process of cycling. I have added Stress-Zyme in order to boost the cycle and make it faster.
However, under the “Starting the Nitrogen Cycle” section of the book “Freshwater Aquariums for Dummies”, it says
“About 2 weeks after you add starter fish to your aquarium, the ammonia build-up in your tank begins to peak………You’re probably wondering what to do with the ammonia, right? Well, just sit back, because your friendly neighborhood bacteria will take care of everything.”
Is the last sentence of that paragraph “….Your friendly neighborhood bacteria will take care of everything” true? So if it is, that means I’ve been conducting all these 30% water changes and adding Ammo-Lock for nothing? But if I don’t do anything, won’t the ammonia become dangerously high?
Please answer the questions for me because I really am lost between the text of the guide and my instincts…
I forgot to say that this is NOT a fishless cycle, I have blood parrot cichlids.
To the first answerer: What do you mean by “let your biological filter catch up”?
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Aquaboy on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 |
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I’ve been doing a fish less cycle adding fish food for 4 days and the readings still say 0.25 ppm…I also added stress zyme last week. Does it take a while for it to go up? And how much should it go up to for me to stop feeding the tank? Do i cut the feeding in half when the ammonia drops to 0? The water is also a dirty greyish color but not cloudy…..is this good during the cycle? Please answer these in order because i never get a full answer on here. Thanks 
hi well i’v only used stress zyme once so is it too late now? do i have to do a huge water change? this whole this is so stressful i always do everything wrong!! I just want fish…
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