Well since my tank got either a case of ich or NTD. So I took everything out and let it soak in a bleach/water solution including the heater, filter and all the parts. Then i also put a bleach/water solution in the tank and let it soak till the next day. I had 2 kyoto plants, a crested java fern, some moneywort, and a java fern. I dipped each of them in the water/bleach solution and rinsed them all off but Im still kind of iffy on weather or not I should or can put them back in the tank.
Here is what the tank had looked like:
I have already ordered:
1 - Bag floramax midnight
1 - T8 aqueon floramax bulb
3 - Dwarf subulata
3 - Corkscrew vallisenaria
1 - Rosette sword
and some dwarf hairgrass. All of which should be here Tuesday! :-D
As of right now i have the tank empty with water in it the filter running along with the heater. I've added some microbe-lift and here's what my parameters look like so far.
Ammonia: 2.0ppm
PH: 7.5
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Something doesn't seem right with the cycling. It has been running for 3 days thought I might see something already but im probably wrong lol. I also tested the water in the tank for chlorine which showed up as 0. Which is awesome!
Call them if you can't find it online. Hopefully they're not like my water company who won't give it out, at least through any easy method. Posted via Mobile Device
I would stop using ammo-lock. Not sure that is helping the case. Another thing have you check your tap water for ammonia? Also I start doing bigger water changes.
Hahahaha let me get your address I'll send you some water lol. I tested my tap water and it does in fact have some ammonia in it about .25ppm. I did a 50% water change a few min ago. I was at walmart earlier and saw they had kenyi cichlids for pretty cheap lol they were dwarfs only get up to 4 inches, I also saw they had some dwarf gouramis for a good price too
Not really sure what plants you have other then the sword in the middle there but they are look to be slow growing plants. My suggestion here would be get some Dechlorinator that detoxifies ammonia. Prime is one that does this (there is another brand that also does but don't remember the name of it). It basically turns ammonia into ammonium for 24hrs maybe longer I'm thinking I heard someone say up to 32hrs. I would also get some fast growing plants. Stem plants are good for this. They will grab the ammonia/ammonium faster then the rest of the plants. Though one has to be careful when choicing stem plants as some need moderate to high lighting. Pennywort would be excellent choice here. Also floating plants will us it faster. Pennywort once again works good for that. Some others would b Duckweed or Amazon frogbit, and/or water sprite just to name some. Any of those would work at grabbing the ammonia faster.
Oh also I might get rid of the airstone it might be causing to much surface disturbance. Letting the C02 out. In a natural planted tank you don't have that much to begin with so it is usually best not to cause to much surface disturbance.
So I have suction cups on the airline to my airstone I saw this thing squirming aon it as I was doing a water change today so I tried to get it with the siphon turned out it was some kind of worm! I don't know where it went but what is it? Lol probably came from one om my plants. I guess I didn't rinse them enough. Also as of today I got the high ammonia problem under control it sitting right now at 1.0ppm
Anyway here's an update my nitrites started to climb and i went by barrier reef with a water sample of my tank water. They told me that my tank was still in the beginning of cycling and told me to add 2-3 fish to kick it in high gear. So add fish I did. I went to pet supermarket they had a really good sale on some fish. I saw they had buenos aires tetras 3 for 99 cents!!!! so I came home with three. 2 of them are about 2inches and the third is pretty small i read in the fish profiles that they are extremely hardy so it worked out in my favor!
as of right now my parameters are
Ph: 7.5
Ammonia: 2.0
nitrites: .25
Make sure you do water changes (half the tank volume) daily if ammonia or nitrite are above zero. No fish is so hardy that it can withstand poisoning by ammonia or nitrite without long-term issues.
If you use a water conditioner that detoxifies ammonia and nitrite--and I know of 2 that do, Prime and Ultimate--you can do alternate day water changes if a/n remain above zero. These conditioners are effective for 24-48 hours and both ammonia and nitrite will still register with tests whether they are toxic or not.
I trust you realize that a 10g is too small for this species Hyphessobrycon anisitsi long-term? It attains 3 inches and needs a group of 8 as it may nip.
Well after doing some reading from my test results my tank is cycled. Since it has cycled I added 6 rasbora heteomorpha and a Chinese algae eater. I had some algae growing some green and some brown since I added the algae eater he actually got the situation under control.
Chris that algae eater will get to big for a ten gallon tank. Also they can get really mean when they mature. They will also stop eating algae when they mature. A "better" suited algae eater would be an Oto catfish for your tank. They do best in groups and I think 3 would be fine in your tank provide you water parameters are ok for them.
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