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oh god when will I do something right???? theres still some gravel in there from the potted plants, as well as some big decoration rocks. both the gravel and the rocks have algae on them.

Momgoose56 didnt want you to miss my reply and think I ignored you ;w; he's actually doing a bit better! he's still sticking to the bottom of the tank but he's swimming around a lot more. he ate a bit more too! I actually removed all the rocks as vyrille suggested and wow I cleaned a lot of...

okay, thank you! luckily I potted my plants c: I hand feed him about 5 pellets in the morning and night :0 is that too much? if he stops being interested in eating sooner than 5 I don't push it. he doesn't eat anything in one minute he just misses all the pellets if I drop them in the tank...

yup he has in the past, I try so hard to keep it down but sometimes no matter how many cleanings I do it doesn't seem to change? it was about 40ppm two or three days ago.. today it read at 100+ so yup I'm changing it immediately... it makes a lot of sense that the rocks were dirty overnight aaa...

I just ordered a python so it'll hopefully be even easier ;w; I try to clean his tank every friday but wow he's so messy sometimes I need to do it sooner lol that's great news thank you ;w; and yeah I don't doubt it there's a lot of bacteria in the gravel.. it seems no matter how well I clean...

it was the new bio wheel I rinsed, there was no bacteria on it in the first place. yes ive heard, when I upgrade to a larger tank I'll be sure to do it (hopefully) right. I think I was just assuming if you got a new filter the tank would have to cycle again, causing the water parameters to...

it's 11 at night but I'll do a water change and tomorrow I'll get prime and dose the tank. ph: 7 ammonia: between 0 and .25 nitrite: 0 nitrate: it was around 20 last I checked it but it spiked up. it's not done settling yet but it's turning darker and I'm assuming it's high... he's had...

ah, see I knew the tank would cycle I just thought soaking the media would make it less of a harsh transition... I shouldve done a bit more research, thank you. I'm retesting the water and then I'll change it immediately. ive already cleaned his tank once or twice since I got the filter and it...

no I didnt. since the filter I got was bigger the media from the other one wouldve been too small I didnt think of it :/

not sure if these are good enough? the last two are more recent, forgive the unclean looking rocks, I woke up this morning and they were like that, I haven't had a change to clean them. I'm going to retest the water. I rinsed the filter media and the bio wheel in tap water then took some...

my oranda is in a 20 gal (ive been told this is too small and I'm working on getting him a bigger tank but it will take a bit) and up until about three weeks ago, he was acting fine. I got him a new filter, one that's slightly more powerful in hopes of keeping his tank better filtered (it's...

Hm I might try hornwort, i'm just afraid my goldfish will eat all of it lol he's..... pretty much golf ball sized... hes a big fish lol... I didn't know 20 gal was only ok for a year, thanks for the info! I was thinking of getting another oranda when switching to the 40 but I'll keep just him...

I've honestly never thought about temperature matching, although I try to get it as close as possible. I'm still sorta new to this, so thank you for all the info c: I'm working on setting up a bigger tank for him, but I can't get live plants until then, I don't have enough substrate. I did...

I actually have large river rocks which, now I know aren't good at all, but I set up his tank when I was very new to this. I'll be moving him to a bigger tank with smaller gravel. I siphon pretty much every time I do water changes, sometimes there will be a lot of waste, sometimes barely...

The nitrates in my tank are extremely high and I've been trying to get them down but they won't. I've asked this before and the only advice was 'do frequent water changes'. I have been it isn't helping in the slightest. the nitrate levels will stay around 20 ppm and it's been there for awhile...

I recently fed my fish some seaweed, he ate all of it and I removed the bits left in the clip, but the nitrate levels still went way up, all the way to 160 ppm. I did a tank change, and it went down to 80 ppm, but it won't go down. ive done one more tank change about a week later and it didn't...

ah, I have been shaking it roughly, but not for long enough I guess. and he's fine I think, he still swims around like normal. I'll definitely be feeding him some veggies soon c: thank you so much

ah okay! a great idea thank you so much! oh huh thatd make sense. I'll test it again soon and shake it for longer this time. thanks oh gotcha! thank you, I'll definitely try feeding him a cucumber!

alright! I'll look into buying some plants for him c: I used to feed him peas but I got too busy and stopped, I'll try and take up the habit again! I was considering getting some algae tablets and seeing if he liked those? I don't know if they're all that interesting though, do you have...

hm.. I retested for both NO-2 and NO-3 and it's 0 for both. I did a pretty thorough water change yesterday and that could be it? but other than that i'm sure it's been cycled, the ammonia levels already rose and fell and all the levels have been the same for weeks now.