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Nano fish? Might not be everyone's cup of tea but the 50cm cube would be a good size for many species. I find them interesting at least.

Look up a fish in cycle. That is what you will be doing. Letting a tank run 7 days with only bacteria starter will do nothing to cycle it unfortunately. There needs to be an ammonia source. You have it now from the danios. Danios have a heirachy of dominance, chasing and a bit of...

Frozen bottles are good or those freezer packs that keep cool bags cold. I've started using those this summer as well.

Yes that is a very good test kit, worth the meony. I don't know where our resident cycle gurus are at the moment. I'm not the best at explaining things.

I could be wrong here but I now see why you are having problems with the cycle of this tank. A liquid test kit would confirm this as strips aren't the most accurate. Heck you might not even have nitrites and the test fields are merging but I digress. You have 0 KH and PH 6.2 or around there...

Possibly yes if it's really bad. Decaying food will be releasing ammonia. By all means go over the gravel and suck up what's on the surface layer. The problem here is that over cleaning your gravel will suck out good bacteria too. After 3 months your tank should be cycled and it is very close...

I'm not familiar with bio wheel filters but basically don't clean it out and don't vacuum the gravel deeply. The good bacteria need to establish in the gravel and filter which is why its best left uncleaned until cycled. If you haven't read this page allready please do. I'm just not sure you...

I would look to get some kind of bottom level fish. Danios are busy swimmers and the gourami are mid to top level too A group of Corydoras catfish (if you have sand or small grained smooth gravel) could work.

You received some really bad advice there not to change water during the cycle. It is a miracle the fish have survived so far without signs of illness. Ammonia and nitrite are toxic to fish even in low doses of 0.5ppm. The whole idea of a fish in cycle is to use fish but to not subject them to...

I agree with you completely. I actually thought the juwel filter did a fair job but not for the space it took up.

Looking really nice. Im forever glad I removed my juwel filter box too, transforms the tank.

A cycled healthy tank will read: 0 ppm ammonia 0 ppm nitrite 0-40 ppm max nitrate in my opinion. This has to be kept low with water changes. Live plants help too but water changes have to be done still. Usually a weekly part water change is enough but in your case this 10 gallon is not cycled...

Hi Have you tested the full water parameters of the new tank? NH3, N02, N03 KH GH? The PH difference is significant but fish should be able to acclimatise if its done slowly such as by drip method. The other water parameters are important though as well.

Just watching today. Did water change, plant trim and filter maintenance yesterday. first time cleaning new sunsun canister so stressed me a bit but know the drill now for next time :)

Squeezing the gunk out of the dirty established media into the new filter media will introduce some of the good bacteria but not as much as the cycled media itself. Definately worth doing. Assume your dosing ammonia?