irodri25
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So I recently set up a 55 gallon tank in my room. I used to use it for my turtles but changed my mind and decided to get fish. I cleaned the tank out really good . Bought a new filter it is the marineland penguin meant for a 90 gallon. Which also means better cleaning that extra umphhh. Anyway my substrate is a mixture of Floramax and white sand and also some fine gravel. I've added about 30 rrot tabs for the plants I have in the tank. Which is 2 amazon swords, 1 anubias, 1 pennywort, and 3 other ones that I can't remember the name of. Anyway at first I let the water and filter run for a week with a little bit of fish food to start the cycle. After a week I tested the water and everything looked great so I added fish. My mistake was waiting so little. Anyway I added about five fish at first tested the water again everything was fine and so were the fish. days later I get 5 more fish and test the water the next day and ammonia and everything after seemes ok. I did a water change before I added fish and everything was ok when I finally stocked on all the fish I wanted evrything seemed fine for a about a week . I kept testing the water everyday. But recently I tested the water and the ammonia and nitrites were high I thought my fish tank was ok and had cycled but I guess not and I've had some losses my 2 african Dwarf frogs died and one of my blue rams. I did a water change the very same day the test diidn't seem so good so I can lower the ammonia. So I've been doing water changes and now two days later my ammonia is higher and nitrites are the same but now I have nitrates too and PH is high. What does this mean? The fish that are still in the tank are all doing ok no heavy brething normal swimming and eating too. Saw my rosy barbs actually doing their mating ritual lol and going in the plants and dropping there eggs. Anyway how can I improve my water quality should I ust keep doing water changes?