Leo
10-07-2020, 01:47 PM
@Cridders88 So here's how the 10 gallon went, which is really small and makes things go bonkers in a hurry....
I initially set the tank up at the beginning of September with only live plants. My mistake, unknowingly at the time, was not feeding the tank, so no food or ammonia was going in thus no cycle ever occurred. I added fish about 3 weeks ago maybe and then I started seeing the ammonia. Some of the neons did get ich and I finally got rid of that when I got Ich X, the Jungle Ich Guard did not work for me after 5 does. After I cured the ich I did a round of Maracyn...The Maracyn in my opinion killed the cycle because it is an antibiotic and I could visually see that the bacteria (in this case what is commonly thought of as brown algae) was dying off and that's when I started having bad ammonia problems.
I did start using API's Ammo Lock which is supposed to make the ammonia non-toxic to fish for 48 hours. Kind of a bad habit to get in and I did do water changes to keep it at a less lethal level. I had API's crappy test strips which are hard to read and inconsistent. I got a better picture when I got the master test kit in and could more accurately see what was going on. So I just got a 55 gallon (189L) tank and had it filled up with water and seeing the ammonia was really high I moved the fish in that for the time being. Right now the 10 gallon has about 2ppm of ammonia and now seeing some nitrite so it is finally starting to cycle. I don't think 6 neon tetras and a betta will cause a huge ammonia spike in that large of a tank but I am checking for that and I did condition the water so I should be good for now and since I ran into Bambi the other morning it will be a while before I can do much with the 55 gallon.
I initially set the tank up at the beginning of September with only live plants. My mistake, unknowingly at the time, was not feeding the tank, so no food or ammonia was going in thus no cycle ever occurred. I added fish about 3 weeks ago maybe and then I started seeing the ammonia. Some of the neons did get ich and I finally got rid of that when I got Ich X, the Jungle Ich Guard did not work for me after 5 does. After I cured the ich I did a round of Maracyn...The Maracyn in my opinion killed the cycle because it is an antibiotic and I could visually see that the bacteria (in this case what is commonly thought of as brown algae) was dying off and that's when I started having bad ammonia problems.
I did start using API's Ammo Lock which is supposed to make the ammonia non-toxic to fish for 48 hours. Kind of a bad habit to get in and I did do water changes to keep it at a less lethal level. I had API's crappy test strips which are hard to read and inconsistent. I got a better picture when I got the master test kit in and could more accurately see what was going on. So I just got a 55 gallon (189L) tank and had it filled up with water and seeing the ammonia was really high I moved the fish in that for the time being. Right now the 10 gallon has about 2ppm of ammonia and now seeing some nitrite so it is finally starting to cycle. I don't think 6 neon tetras and a betta will cause a huge ammonia spike in that large of a tank but I am checking for that and I did condition the water so I should be good for now and since I ran into Bambi the other morning it will be a while before I can do much with the 55 gallon.
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