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When one of my female bettas went missing, ransacked the tank and I eventually disconnected the filters (currently on 2, as one is failing but still want the bacteria culture?) and found her stuck behind one in a space clearly too small for her, only just dead. It sucked, and I can't warm up to...

Here's a quick background: 45 litre tank, currently on 6 ember tetras and two female bettas, filled with live plants. There were 8 embers, but after moving the tank for a carpet thing, two died. There has previously been a male betta, but at the time I found my tank minus two fish, and that...

Just an update: I returned the cherry barbs to the store and I went in to cycle the tank a little longer with a little pure ammonia, and added some nitrifying bacteria to see if I could speed it up a little. The ammonia was dealt with pretty quickly and the nitrate/nitrite levels were decent...

oh, and the testing kit I need is en route, for tomorrow, so I can stop relying on the pet store.

I am much happier about this now =) Thank you for the help, and I will definitely keep you posted.

Ammonia is less than 0.02 which means, from what I understand, that I need to cycle it longer to get those levels to rise and encorage bacteria growth. Up to this point I have been changing the water daily since the first dead fish, and your advice is encouraging me to continue doing so instead...

Here's the background: I recently bought my first tank after an introduction to goldfish that went very well when I was younger, given that my own goldfish outgrew the tank and was granted the freedom of an aunt's pond. A 45 litre tank seemed like a sensible option for the table I had, and as...