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FINAL UPDATE:   My tank has cycled! Ammonia and Nitrite are both at 0 and Nitrate is below 40ppm!   No more casualties... Fish are healthy. Active and very greedy.   Hooray!   Thank you, everyone, for being very patient with me and offering your advice. It means so much to me and my lil' fishy...

Small Update;   Kissing Gouramis have been removed.   Test Results - 02.09.2013   pH - 7.2 Ammonia - 1.5 Nitrite - 0.75 Nitrate - 2.5   Fish are showing no signs of distress; behaviour is fine and their physical health is visibly perfect.   This makes me hopeful! The ammonia has gone down from...

They recently started selling these in Pets at Home in my town... I'm very tempted to get one.   When you say the tank size is 20 gallons, is that for each single Panchax? Do they need to be kept in groups or do they do well on their own?

Yep, I haven't done any water changes (to stop the cycle from slowing down even more) and I don't plan to unless the ammonia and nitrite gets out of control... Right now it seems to be staying at a steady level without rising. I do checks every 24 hours and I'll post on this thread if anything...

Just thought I'd update you guys on what's happening; I've had a small nitrite spike at around 0.25 so I'm assuming the cycle is finally beginning to get going once again. The PH is at 7.4 while the ammonia is still ranging at 1.00-2.00. I used a bottle of Tetra SafeStart which has been...

Thank you so much for your patience, Amin. I really appreciate it...   I think the best option for me would be to find somewhere to put the fish until my tank can cycle. I'd hate to see me little ones die and to keep them in this tank seems to be too much of a risk in the long run, like you...

Okay, just did a 25% water change.   Before The Change; Ammonia - 2.0ppm Nitrate - 0ppm Nitrite - 0ppm PH - 6.8   After The Change; Ammonia - 1.0ppm Nitrite - 0ppm Nitrate - 0ppm PH - 6.8   Temperature is 78°F both times. Fish show no signs of ammonia poisoning and are alert, energetic, friendly...

Really? Huh, then the forum glitched a little. The time stamp on my post is 6:22 and yours is 6:30... Weird. I did refresh before posting, but nothing showed up.   As for the product, it states that it's suitable for conditioning soft tap water and rain water, as well as RO water. I think that...

I posted a few minutes before you and it mentions a rise in PH... taking the length and time of your post into consideration, I think you might have missed it. ;u;

Oh man, quite a few responses while I was gone!   You do seem to have quite a lot of scientific knowledge about this, Amin. Following your advice definitely seems to be the right way to go; you explain the science behind everything in a way that's easy to understand which is very important to...

Well... The newest thing I put in there was the plants, I think. I ended up with a couple of snail-stowaways, but I got rid of them before they bred and became an infestation. The decorations, except the jellyfish, were all from my old aquarium. Hmn.   I could definitely give that a go, though...

Nope, nothing at all. I'm actually quite hesitant to introduce anything else into the tank, living or not, in case it makes it worse... As a result, my tank is a little bare;

Yes, I definitely won't be assuming anything until all readings are down to 0... Even if it's ammonium, that's still not acceptable in the long run. If it is, though, it buys me some time. Either way, I gotta get this sorted pronto. I guess I'm just trying to stay positive instead of panicking...

Oh, that's interesting... My fish aren't showing any signs of poisoning or bad health so perhaps that's what's going on, especially if I can't get an accurate reading on either PH test. Unless, of course, it's telling the truth and it's 6.0. That definitely adds a bit of relief, if it's making...

Ah, I thought as much. I was very wary of putting any more fish into the tank when half of my tank passed away in the first place; no need to add to that pointlessly...   I just got back from doing a large water change and I tested the water before and after; annoyingly, no change... Still...

I've got the other readings for you... Kind of.   Nitrites are at 0ppm and so are Nitrates. The PH, though... That was a little difficult.   I did the normal PH test and it came out as 6.0. I thought that couldn't be right, and the instructions said a higher PH wouldn't react with the test so I...

Okay, I'll give that a try... I imagine it'll take a while but it's better than my fish getting sick because of the ammonia.    As for the readings, I honestly can't remember the numbers. The only thing I know is when I looked up appropriate levels for tank and when I followed the instructions...

So... I'm having an issue I'm sure many people have had before and I just can't find a way to get it to go away.   My 120 litre tropical tank has had an ammonia spike and it refuses to go lower than 0.50ppm; granted, it's better than it was and it was actually off the charts and killed five of...

Yeah, I know... I had a dumb moment. A very dumb moment...

Thought I'd let you guys know my Gourami is still alive! Definitely not to his usual self just yet, but I think I saw him eating. He's a little lethargic, which I expected... I'll keep up with his treatments and let you know how it goes.

Actually, I think a lot of fish treatments contain Hydrogen Peroxide and it never seems to bother them... I guess they react differently to things. c:

Heheh, Pinkie Pie is awesome~. Oh, I'll try to get my hands on some of those, then... Do pet stores usually stock them or is it something you'd get from a vet?   Thank you for the advice. ;u;

Okay, thank you! I'll do just that as well as getting the Stress Coat tomorrow; he's such a little sweetie, I'll be heartbroken if he dies...

I was holding the bucket as I had to use a smaller length of tube to siphon the water due to my father placing my regular tube elsewhere. As you can imagine, holding a bucket with one hand when it's quickly filling with water isn't a good idea, so I was shouting for my mother to quickly come and...