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I do have plenty of decor. Just fake coral rocks and fake plants. They have been covered in biofilm for a minute. Not sure what that might mean. Good point the water change would bring it down. I've never drip acclimated, always just done the bag floating. I'll have to look up how to do it.

I haven't tested this just yet, but I do know that in the past I've gotten some ammonia readings in my water out of the tap - lik around .25 ammonia. pH I would have to test and I don't have a test kit for GH, KH etc... However something interesting just happened that I am wondering about. I...

Ah. So actually the problematic tank's pH reading is 6.8. So temp 78, pH 6.8 and ammonia .25. Where does that put me toxicity wise...?

Ok yeah the pH seems to be in range. I fishless cycled my 10 gallon and while it took forever, I was able to add 5 fish and a snail all at once and all were fine, ammonia always stayed 0. Same thing just happened 2 weeks ago when I put 5 new fish in. I worry about even adding one fish at a...

Yeah so my 20 gal looks to be about a pH of 6.8, while my 10 is a 7.4... I have read that keeping it above 7 is ideal for BB growth. Anything I can do to get it there while I run a fishless cycle...?

Yeah even doing the API test I was getting some ammonia for sure (about .25). My ammonia alert in the 10 gal is very obviously yellow. I'll run a pH test...

When I checked last week just before a water change, I had about .25 ammonia (I have one of those Ammonia Alert readers in the tank too which has been consistently around that level as well for 2 weeks), 0 nitrites, and about 5 nitrates. Temp is 78, pH I have not tested but I figure should be...

The bioload was something I thought about too. But when I added my 5 new fish to the 10 gal they all lived and are doing great; and keep in mind that tank had only had a snail in it for a couple of weeks; before that, just one fish for a month. Just seems odd. And also odd that my 20 gal has...

Hi there, I had a 10 gallon tank going strong for 2 years (4 GloFish Tetras and a nerite snail). All my fish died off slowly but one, snail remained alive too, so 4 weeks ago, I bought myself a 20 gallon and kept the 10 gallon to keep around as a quarantine tank/just a second tank to have once...

Hi all, One week ago from today I got 5 new Glofish Tetras and I think my cycle hadn't had enough time to catch up (I took media and gravel from a previously established tank), because all but one of them died within the first 48 hours. The one that still lives was the only one who ever ate...

Yeah that is my plan is to move the snail into the 20 right before putting new fish in the 10. Snail is still kickin' and is hanging out on the roof currently. My original GloFish died too - the purple one that remains was part of the new batch. It makes me wonder if there was indeed some kind...

20 high. I have a very good filter that works for up to a 35 gal tank. I set my two tanks up on Monday, putting my one 2 year old fish in the 20 gal and leaving my snail in the 10. I got 5 Glofish that evening but it seems there's been a bit of a mishap because all but one of them have now died...

Ah got it. I might as well stick to the regular Tetras then, as the whole reason I'm upgrading is because my 4-5 original ones never really shoaled much in the 10 gallon. They're shoal with the Long Fin Tetras, right? Would be nice to have somewhat of a variety...

Awesome. I actually have a bit of a different idea for how to do this then... let's say I just kept the one fish and snail in my 10 gallon for now. Set up my 20 gallon using some established media... then I could start out right away with 4-5 Glofish in the new tank, yeah? And then as long as...

Cool. I actually do have pure ammonia, the powdered kind, which I find very hard to dose... I used it for cycling my 10 gal initially and I feel like it might be too concentrated and may put that tank out of wack. Let's say I'm able to stick to my (current) plan of setting up the new tank one...