High Ammonia levels!

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If you set the tank up just 2 months ago, and didn't use substrate or a filter from an already cycled tank, it should now just be cycled. It takes up to 2 months to properly cycle a tank. During cycling get a few, small, cheap, fish that will probably die. Once you go thru the sequence of ammonia, nitrate, then nitrate, you can start adding fish you expect to keep. This info is contained in most aquarium books.
 
How do you know if the tank is cycled? I put some small cheap fish in like 2 weeks ago then when my water started to get good i put in the catfish..... Is their a test you can do to see if it is cycled?
 
get a api master test kit(fw or sw depending on your s.g.), the way you know your tank is cycled is if your readings are ammonia 0 nitrite 0 and low nitrates probably under 10 since there aren't any fish.
 
cycling with fish is cruel and unnecessary you just need to throw in a few fish pellets a day (ammonia generator) and monitor it with the test kit.
 
buy some seachem stability to help your bacteria colony, use it all the time and no tanks have ever crashed on me, also i would do 30-40% water changes (dechlorinated of course with seachem prime)
 
The tank is indeed very good, just make sure you let it cycle for 1month, unless you've done it already and i wouldnt recommmend big fish like pangasius catfish for a 20Gallon tank
 
Okay so cycling with the tetras should take around 1 month? And the pangasius died because of the ammonia levels :( But i am going to be getting a peacock bass when i get my ammonia levels back up.. AND IT IS A GROW OUT TANK!! When the peacock hits 6 inch. he will be put into my 46 gallon then when he hits 12 inch. to a bigger tank
 
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