I recently got my first aquarium- a 30 gallon. I always had fish when i was younger but my omly job was to feed them, I recently found out its a lot harder than that. I took my LPS advice and bought the tank, poured in stess zyme put some fish in the next day. At the time i had 4 mollies and some neons. As the mollies started to die(2, the noens made it) soon after. Not knowing anything but trying to save them I read the gravel should have beeen clean and any decorations should be cleaned off, so in desperation I thought the water was dirty and emptied it 
put fish back in one mollie died, one came back to life right as i wass going to flush him, and then i put in the stress zyme- that actually saved the molly that came back from the dead, in the process I also lost a couple of neons. Now I think the water is ok because the fish seem happy, so I go and buy a few more fish over the next few days- to be exact as of right now, after a month of having the tank-I have 2 gouramis, 4 tetras, 5 neons, 2 chine algae eaters, 2 angel fish( I know im retarded). Fish seemed fine, then 2 neons died, I went to the LPS and told them, they said to test the water (I didnt even know that was important), ph was 7.2, nitrites 0, nitrates 0, and ammmonia somewhere between 2.0 and 4.0. I keep putting this amonia-loc stuff in but from what someone told me in one of these room is that all I am doing is keeping the tank from cycling but saving the fish. If the fish have to cycle with the tank- ammonia levels and nitrite levels are going to soar 
so my question is- can I keep these fish alive if I stop puttting in the ammonia loc, or should i give them away- or anything in between? thanks for the help- sorry i had to write a book to tell you the story, I could still type 5 pages 
put fish back in one mollie died, one came back to life right as i wass going to flush him, and then i put in the stress zyme- that actually saved the molly that came back from the dead, in the process I also lost a couple of neons. Now I think the water is ok because the fish seem happy, so I go and buy a few more fish over the next few days- to be exact as of right now, after a month of having the tank-I have 2 gouramis, 4 tetras, 5 neons, 2 chine algae eaters, 2 angel fish( I know im retarded). Fish seemed fine, then 2 neons died, I went to the LPS and told them, they said to test the water (I didnt even know that was important), ph was 7.2, nitrites 0, nitrates 0, and ammmonia somewhere between 2.0 and 4.0. I keep putting this amonia-loc stuff in but from what someone told me in one of these room is that all I am doing is keeping the tank from cycling but saving the fish. If the fish have to cycle with the tank- ammonia levels and nitrite levels are going to soar so my question is- can I keep these fish alive if I stop puttting in the ammonia loc, or should i give them away- or anything in between? thanks for the help- sorry i had to write a book to tell you the story, I could still type 5 pages 
It does involve more than what ppl think, but its well worth the effort. 
