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I promised I'd post this to get feedback for her last night, and she's emailed me about it already!
She has a 20g tank with a HOB rated for that size and an airstone. Regular Lowes pea gravel an inch or two deep, plastic plants.
She used bacteria supplement and water conditioner when she set up the tank a few weeks ago - maybe as long ago as a month. Then she added a bunch of fish within two days. Now she has skyhigh nitrites. She does up to 7-ish gallon water changes every day to every other day, and they still stay off the chart hot pink. She's been doing water changes by scooping out the top water with a cup - now she has a gravel cleaner and did use it to clean the gravel the last time.
She stocked (right off the bat) with this; 10 or 11 cardinals, 3 killifish, 3 albino corys, and I think something else I can't remember. I think she said she had 20 fish.
I told her she over stocked too fast, she says the rule is 1" of fish per gallon (forget these are not full grown) also, she says you are supposed to be able to put all your fish in the same day if you treat with water conditioner. I said I think you're supposed to gradually build up to that point.
So what do I tell her, she wants to know what people here advise. I don't think she like mine! lol
I should edit this to add that the nitrites have been skyhigh almost since week 1. The other readings she says are near zero all the time.
Thanks
I promised I'd post this to get feedback for her last night, and she's emailed me about it already!
She has a 20g tank with a HOB rated for that size and an airstone. Regular Lowes pea gravel an inch or two deep, plastic plants.
She used bacteria supplement and water conditioner when she set up the tank a few weeks ago - maybe as long ago as a month. Then she added a bunch of fish within two days. Now she has skyhigh nitrites. She does up to 7-ish gallon water changes every day to every other day, and they still stay off the chart hot pink. She's been doing water changes by scooping out the top water with a cup - now she has a gravel cleaner and did use it to clean the gravel the last time.
She stocked (right off the bat) with this; 10 or 11 cardinals, 3 killifish, 3 albino corys, and I think something else I can't remember. I think she said she had 20 fish.
I told her she over stocked too fast, she says the rule is 1" of fish per gallon (forget these are not full grown) also, she says you are supposed to be able to put all your fish in the same day if you treat with water conditioner. I said I think you're supposed to gradually build up to that point.
So what do I tell her, she wants to know what people here advise. I don't think she like mine! lol
I should edit this to add that the nitrites have been skyhigh almost since week 1. The other readings she says are near zero all the time.
Thanks
