Hello all! I have been a lurker on this site for many months now and you all have helped me through many things (like cycling and my first outbreak of
ICH). So, thank you for helping me and not even knowing it! I have never had a tank before but, after lots of expensive city aquarium trips and fish store window shopping, my boyfriend and I decided it is too good to resist. We have a 55gal tank set up since August. We ran with only plants and shrimp for a little over a month during cycling until all water parameters were satisfactory. We had a small snail outbreak towards the end of the cycle so 3 small clown loaches were added (we are aware that 55gal tanks are not recommended for these fun fish, we worked it out with
LFS so that they would take them back when they get larger). About a week later we added 3 Platys, 3 Dalmation Mollies, and 3 Zebra Danios. (We had a rather large platy baby show up this week during
water change-tough little thing survived in our
driftwood and now that he is bigger he swims all over.) Last week, we added a very cool Twig Catfish, and just today 2 more Zebra Danios and 4 quarter sized Angelfish. Water Parameters: Ammonium 0,
nitrite 0,
nitrate 10,
pH 7.5, and temp. 78. So, after all that..my question is, is our tank ok? We have really tried to do everything carefully and have researched every step of the way. We love our fish and they do truly all have personalities of their own. We would really hate to overstock and stress them out. Thank you for all your advise and insight, even when you didn't know you were giving it!
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