Safe levels of chems

[tstenback]

And there you have it.  Now that is not anything to be afraid of.....is it?

YES!!!

What if my fishies die!

Hi everyone:

I'm also very overwhelmed by this whole cycling process.

I've seen two fishes die. Now that I have more experience, when my pineapple swordtail started hanging in the plants, hiding, and gasping for air, I knew what was coming up....

I quickly treated some water and found a 2 gallon salad bowl.
I put the fish in there and this is his "emergency QT tank" right now.
He has a airstone and a little plant in there.
Still not enough space for a sword tail, but it was that or letting him die...

He seems to be happy for now. Hopefully, I'll get my nitrites down soon so he can move back to the tank with his other friends.

Sylvia

Sylvia27

Are you doing water changes? If so are you changing enough water to keep the levels down below 1 ppm. Swords are not the best cyclers in the world they tend to like very clean water.

 

[ger87410]

I cycled my 55g brackish with 30+ guppies. Never experienced a spike of nitrites or ammonia. Probably because I used plants from an established tank. I also took some gravel and hung it in the filter. Didn't lose 1 fish, but monitored everyday and changed water everyday to every other day.