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yeah ive been doing as much as i can,i leave like 4-5 inches in there. now it looks like my dalmation lyretail is getting sick too =(

ah i guess i spoke too soon, had some chaos erupt in the tank! my snail died apparently as i awoke a few days ago to see him on the other side of the tank from his shell and the fish picking at him. so i took him out.. and there is little pieces of snail guts all in the water. so i went back...

Just updating for you guys, everything seems to be going well with the tank now. I do water changes once a week now just to be safe but the readings from my strips seem to be consistant (yeah i know API kit is better =p). the water has gotten a little softer staying around the medium reading on...

well the in tank monitor has a PH and ammonia meter, the ammonia is reading under .02 do i need to keep doing water changes daily or can i just watch the meters now and change when needed?

heres my stats from some cheap test strips i picked up nitrite & nitrates - 0 total hardness - 75 (soft) total alkalinity - 300 (high) PH - 8.4

so ive done 2 80% water changes so far. i have a PH and amonia detector that sticks on the inside of the tank. the PH is showing 8.0+ , the amonia is showing under .02 it seems i should have just got PH test strips so i could give a more accurate reading, the leave in detector i have just...

well i did about an 80% water change and im going to buy a test kit today. also my 2nd ghostfish is now showing the same signs as the first one and is dying. I guess its just cause the water is not good? but the other fish all seem to be fine. his tail is all ragged and barely there anymore...

oh do i need to cycle the frogs 2 gallon tank or are they different than the fish with cycling

oh and i dont know if it matters but i forgot to mention we also have 2 moss ball plants in there also. supposedly they absorb bad stuff and we can take them out and squeeze em out like sponges... is this good?

thanks for the quick reply. yeah im really suprised that mostly everything the people at these different pet stores is wrong. i really dont want my fish to die! how exactly do you do a 80% water change? just take some kind of large container and keep scooping water out, dump that, and put new...

---Cliffnotes at bottom if you dont feel like readin the whole story Well where to start lol. Lets see this all started when browsing some shops with my girlfriend we came across some african dwarf frogs in tiny plastic boxes in a store run by some asians. I had seen these similar setups...