DarrinLowe
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Well, my girlfriend and myself have gone through quite the journey with our fish tank. We are trying to do everything we can, and once again we need advice.
At the start, we were very unfamiliar with our tank. We started out at a pet store, to look at puppies, only to find they didnt have any. We came home with a betta fish..
We chose that we would like to expand, so we found a 35-40 gallon on a local trading website, for $30.
At first, we just had our Betta in it. We had no filter, or anything for that period. Our betta was very unhappy, and we found out that he had too much space, and it was not good for him. We put him back in a 5 gallon bowl, with a bamboo stick, and a 5gallon heater, he is the happiest I have ever seen him.
We bought a filter, and a heater, hooked it up and put our fish in right away. >.<
Since then (October at the earliest)3 of our original fish are alive. (2 female molly's and a pleco) (We had 7)
While i was in Mexico, over christmas my girlfriend bought new fish. (6 Tiger Barbs, 3 adult platys, 1 juvinile platy)
Before I left for mexico, we had FINALLY managed to get our ammonia to 0, our water was REALLY cloudy though. But we have problems with our filter, when its been running for even a week, it gets too clogged and the water it pulls gets poured back in over the filters, leaving it unfiltered.
As soon as I got back, we went out to purchase a Fluval U3. The water has cleared up, but the ammonia has stayed consistently highish. We still have the original filter running aswell, because we know that the new one has not cycled properly. But as we put it in about 2 weeks ago, we were wondering when we could take this out.
One of our platys died this morning, and we are having alot of difficulty getting rid of the ammonia levels. We do weekly waterchanges / gravel vac.
At the start, we were very unfamiliar with our tank. We started out at a pet store, to look at puppies, only to find they didnt have any. We came home with a betta fish..
We chose that we would like to expand, so we found a 35-40 gallon on a local trading website, for $30.
At first, we just had our Betta in it. We had no filter, or anything for that period. Our betta was very unhappy, and we found out that he had too much space, and it was not good for him. We put him back in a 5 gallon bowl, with a bamboo stick, and a 5gallon heater, he is the happiest I have ever seen him.
We bought a filter, and a heater, hooked it up and put our fish in right away. >.<
Since then (October at the earliest)3 of our original fish are alive. (2 female molly's and a pleco) (We had 7)
While i was in Mexico, over christmas my girlfriend bought new fish. (6 Tiger Barbs, 3 adult platys, 1 juvinile platy)
Before I left for mexico, we had FINALLY managed to get our ammonia to 0, our water was REALLY cloudy though. But we have problems with our filter, when its been running for even a week, it gets too clogged and the water it pulls gets poured back in over the filters, leaving it unfiltered.
As soon as I got back, we went out to purchase a Fluval U3. The water has cleared up, but the ammonia has stayed consistently highish. We still have the original filter running aswell, because we know that the new one has not cycled properly. But as we put it in about 2 weeks ago, we were wondering when we could take this out.
One of our platys died this morning, and we are having alot of difficulty getting rid of the ammonia levels. We do weekly waterchanges / gravel vac.
