Grapevine89

I got a 10 gal tank with 5 ember tetras, a female betta and a bristlenose pleco. Can i add more tetras or is this one at perfect? It also has some moss, moss balls and a banana plant. My big 30 gal has 2 betta females who seem to get along. And 6 harlequin rasboras, java fern, a dwarf water lily and some crypts What else should i add? I also have a betta in a 5 gal but she just has snail friends.

So i planted some crypts in the tank and they are growing new leaves. I added some of the medias from my 5 gal Im finally getting nitrates in the cycling process. The ammonia still comes up high but that happened in my 5 gal til the plants took off and now that tank reads 0 so ithink with time it will work out and until then its just one spoiled beta

awesome I tried adding a small sponge and it didnt do much

This sounds like what happened in my tank.. If I had to guess you added to much to soon and with the illness and the throw off everything just collapsed. White fuzzy stuff could be fungus as well. I would do a good vaccum and then just monitor your ammonia levels. umm another thing I had to figure out. If you have plants especially. If your using a good water conditioner chances are you have ammonia but it's already been neutralized with the conditioner. Give your tank time to rebalance I promise it will bounce back. Took me 4 months and to many fish to realize you need to just have patience more then anything. Maybe try adding some media from your small tank again then do your water changes and see if good things happen.

I have a 30 gal and a 5 gal and I notice both tanks have cold spots in them.. They both have sponge filters but i went to plant a new plant in my 30 gal and noticed the spots directly around the heater are warm.. the thermometer reads 80 but there are spots that are just freezing too! how could I circulate betta tanks without creating to much. I thought of putting a bubbler under the themometer but when i doo I see the poor betta struggling to swim. My 30 gal has a mariland for up to 30 gals. My 5 gal has a preset for 10 gal and still is having cold spots

I lost the sheet to tell me what this means can someone help me out.

Sigh ok snails it is for algae i guess 🙂

So I got this baby boy betta.. well he is growing but the fins are not.. I got it with the big hope of those beautiful fins oh well Boo is still cute but now I want to add a bit more visual to the tank. I know I can't really put schooling fish in there without over loading I had thought of something like pygmy catfish? Any suggestions besides snails.

Thank you everyone!

The gravel I have is the natural gravel at the pet store. I had a decoration in there where I saw paint had chipped off so I removed that last weekend. I think im done with painted decorations for sure.

i didn't know if it could be possible that non harmful ammonia was created? I had seen a couple videos on how you can have 2 different kinds but they both show on the test.. but when i take the same tests o my new betta tank everything turns out great with no ammonia and nitrates and nitrites.

this is nearly every ammonia test with the fish acting totally normal

ok here is my tank now.. last weekend I had a huge fake plant in the back I took out because I planted like 4 crypts and added frogbite. I also glues the ferns to the chola and moved all the substrate to do a good vacuum and it kicked up a bunch so then I did a 25% water change about 3 days later no gravel movement and that when the smell came.

is there anyway to give you a video because it's what I got of laterally 2 weeks ago

I will say my java fern was fine but the anubias were looking kinda off and then did great and came back wonderfully with some fertilizer. For all intense and purpose though the ammonia test was showing so high all the time my fish looked great til I started messing with additives and couldn't understand why the ammonias were so high,