Leaped before I looked...
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Nice tank. Normally I would say get them in a different tank until the cycling is done, but as you don't have one that really isn't an option. I would keep up what your doing, keep checking the ammonia, nitrites and nitrates to make sure they don't sky rocket as well as doing your water changes. Eventually it will right itself.
Very nice looking tank. As for cycling at this point I would stick with what you are doing. Just remember that it takes awhile and the first day you see ammonia and nitrite at 0 is not a sign to go buy a dozen more fish. Give it plenty of time once it gets to 0 and then slowly add fish to the tank
Welcome to MFK. You're doing fine. We all jumed in knowing less than we know now. If you're not addicted yet, my adivce is to run as far away as you can, and take up a more affordable addiction like blackjack or roulette. If it's too late, than than MFK is an excellent 12 step program. Repeat after me, "Hi, my name is ___, and I'm a fish addict." rob
Good thinking. Dr. Joe once recommended getting a girlfriend with some kids. I think blackjack or roulette would be cheaper.robkob;2874073; said:
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Thanks for the welcome everyone. What I did was found a guy in the LFS who had the identical filter setup as me. (Cascade 1000) He was talking to one of the employees about selling his fish being he was moving. He ended up living a town over from me and after seeing his tank and helping him break it down, he gave me the internals to his filter.Talk about luck!!! The next day the ammonia dropped and the nitrites spiked. Within a week I had readings of 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and 25 nitrates. I added 3 more Tb's making it 8 of them now. A week later, I added a 2'' blue ahli and a 2'' red zebra. A few days ago I added 2 electric blue dempseys. I think I'm going to end up returning the zebra because he nonstop chases one of the ebjd's. I was doing 30-40% wc's daily. Now I'll do them twice a week. My water seems to look great and everyone seems happy. This is definitely turning into a sickness. I have a 15gal hospital tank with the fliter cycling right now in the 75 (just incase. those ebjd's are $$) and have been surfin the craigslist for a bigger tank.
I just finished ren'oing my house and now all the bedrooms are upstairs. So now I have 2 empty rooms downstairs. One I turned into an office for myself and the other.... can you take a guess??? haha
I just finished ren'oing my house and now all the bedrooms are upstairs. So now I have 2 empty rooms downstairs. One I turned into an office for myself and the other.... can you take a guess??? haha
You're not going to have to worry about the comets for terribly long. With that high of a temp (they're cold water fish) their metabolism will shoot through the roof and they'll get super huge super fast and then die (I've seen it happens with "serious" fish keepers that don't know much and let their kids pick out fish).
And if they don't... sounds like you have good reason to build a pond!
And if they don't... sounds like you have good reason to build a pond!
