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Hi there. Need help with medications. I have a 10 gallon freshwater with two male guppies. 2 month Fishless cycled tank that has had fish for a little over a week. Water parameters are good. These guys have been in the tank for about 8 days. Saw some light stringy poo from one of them, and now...

It’s been a looooooong time but I thought I’d still update. The tank is cycled. The bacteria that change nitrite into nitrate really were up and running from early on thanks to Marineland Bio Spira. I don’t think the Bio Spira or Tetra Safe Start did anything to help with building up the...

Thank you! I did add some more ammonia today after I did a 40% water change . I’m curious to see how fast the bacteria can break it down. I’m going to beef up my biological filtration too if I can. When I did do fishless cycling in the past I dosed the ammonia high at the end and when it dropped...

I’ll check on the Gh. I wonder if I can even find endlers at my lfs. I’ve had platys in a 10g before. curious as to why you don’t think it’s big enough, but I’m always open to change. I have a thick book of fish species and will take a look at that too. I made some changes in the tank today: 40%...

I’m not sure the current ph and gh (we have very hard water here and the ph of the tap is about 8 to maybe 8.4), but historically in the past I had hardy fish like platys and guppies and the skinny mini shark looking bottom feeder.

Thanks for inquiring. I have no live plants and might consider them in the future. I have the typical fish store brightly colored gravel. My goal is to get some hardy fish in there like platys and guppies, and other community type fish.

Thanks for replying. I do not have any plants in the tank. If I stop feeding it with ammonia then I need to add some fish; can I trust that the cycle is far enough along so that the fish wouldn’t get burned? Thank you again.

Hi there. Question: I’ve been fishless cycling a new 10g tank using bacteria from a bottle for about 5 weeks and why don’t I have any nitrItes yet? I’ve been feeding the tank with 10% ammonia to try to maintain 2ppm. The ammonia has been slowly dropping again and again. I have seen an increase...

You could be totally right about the concentration. I’m glad that at least the ammonia is starting to drop. I can’t remember, as the ammonia drops should I be seeing nitrite right away or is there a gap in time?

Hi Fishlover. Thank you for your ideas. I’m using ammonia hydroxide with no additives. Straight tap water here has a nitrate Level of 5ppm, so I’m wondering how the nitrates have grown to 25ppm if there’s no nitrites to be broken down to nitrates. Bio Spira is like the predecessor to Dr Tim’s...

Hi there. It’s been a while since I had some freshwater tanks going. I’ve done fishless cycling before but was lucky enough to have bacteria from an established tank. This time I can’t find any and used Marineland Bio Spira to try to expedite cycling. I’ve been testing everyday. I am now seeing...