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OK! I truly appreciate your guidance here, being so new to the hobby is entirely overwhelming. It is a gravel based tank at the moment, so from what it sounds like I have two sufficient options here: 1) Restock with a group of 9-10 dwarf cories after replacing the gravel with a sand substrate...

That's super interesting as I am dosing my tank with Tetra SafeStart Plus while also having 5-6 live plants in the aquarium. Does this mean that I somehow screwed up along the way?

I have been politely instructed by my other half that she will be very angry with me should I opt for a larger tank.. which leaves me somewhat stuck with the 10G. I refuse to be an irresponsible pet owner however, so I'm basically now after what can _safely_ and, most importantly, _happily_ be...

Well, bugger. But, okay, at least I'm learning. So -- let's assume that I convince the charming pet store to take back the guppies and the corys. What would be your recommended next steps -- I assume getting the count of glowlight tetras up to 6 to begin with?

Okay, so good news all around then! They agreed to take back the two guppies I purchased yesterday, which I can do today or tomorrow. That would leave the tank with 4 glowlight tetras and 2 peppered cory catfish. Not ideal, but what would you do with it at this point? I can try to convince them...

I am in Washington state, sorry I should probably have included that from the outset! I can absolutely manage a larger tank, so I could easily purchase a 20g from the same location as I purchased the 10g, cycle it again with the Tetra SafeStart Plus (personally I always go with the one rated up...

Gotcha, this is primarily the reason I said I was so happy to have stumbled across this extremely knowledgeable community! So in this scenario, taking into account the fact that my tank is almost certainly still cycling, what would you generally recommend? I unfortunately cannot return the fish...

That is unfortunately precisely what I ended up doing, which didn't seem like a bad idea until I went deep into the world of fishkeeping forums. I have absolutely no clue what my water hardness is, the GH and KH values I provided above and my city provides this little handout...

It says to add fish immediately after the TSS is added to the tank so that ammonia will be produced and the bacteria have something to actually live on. So, for the first week we only had three glowlight tetras in the tank after adding TSS. Today I added the two pepper corys, two guppies and the...

Thanks for the reply! Cycling for just over a week, fish-in cycle with Tetra SafeStart Plus (which specifically says no water changes for the first 14 days) Just did a water test, though it was a strip test and does not test for Ammonia... ugh GH 0 KH 40 PH 6.5 Nitrite 0 to 0.5 (color seems to...

Hello all! I'd firstly like to start off by saying I'm extraordinarily glad I ran across this community. I'm fairly brand-new to the world of fishkeeping, having received a 10 gallon Marineland tank for my birthday (nothing sets the 32nd year off right better than a fish tank!) I'm looking for...