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  1. AndEEss
    It won’t matter; bacteria that eat nitrite aren’t stopping and starting their consumption. It’s continuous.
  2. AndEEss
    If you tank is cycled, you won’t ever have detectable nitrite. The only time you’ll see nitrite is when you’re cycling, before the bacteria that consume nitrite are fully established. In my plant grow out tank, I can do a 100% water change, add 3ppm ammonia and see 10ppm nitrate 24hrs later, and never have detectable nitrite.
  3. AndEEss
    Because that’s what BB eat. You have to add some source of ammonia, whether it’s fish food, ammonium chloride or ammonia from fish in a fish-in cycle. Based on your response, there’s very little possibility that your tank is cycled.
  4. AndEEss
    What is your source of ammonia?
  5. AndEEss
    That’s the question I was going to ask, too.
  6. AndEEss
    Looks like you have significantly less surface turbulence than you would with the stock set up. Are the fish OK with that?
  7. AndEEss
    I have a 36g bow front, a 75g and I’m in the process of replacing it with a WaterBox 6025, ~143g. Almost double the volume. Truth be told, I wish I had gone straight to the bigger tank from the 36 bow front. The footprint is 1.75x bigger than the 75g. It’s absolutely massive in comparison. And that’s what you’re buying with a big tank: footprint.
  8. AndEEss
    Adding more bacteria in a bottle isn’t going to do anything. The bacteria living on surfaces are already established, living and eating and reproducing there. Pouring more BB into the tank might actually contribute to your ammonia as most of those bacteria likely don’t survive, and then decompose.
  9. AndEEss
    Oh. Yeah that’s a yoyo. I have 6, ranging from 3” to 4.5”, in a 75. Which will soon be replaced by a WaterBox 6025…
  10. AndEEss
    An 18” deep aquarium for a 10” fish? That seems cruel. Personally, I’d be looking at something 150g or larger, with an emphasis on footprint/area and NOT height.
  11. AndEEss
    My point is that you might want to wait on buying fish until you know your water parameters.
  12. AndEEss
    What about KH, GH, TDS, and temperature?
  13. AndEEss
    Before you get them: do your tank parameters match those of any fish you’re thinking about buying?
  14. AndEEss
    Correct. If your MC122 is set to 6.4 and the tank’s pH goes from 6.4 to 6.3, it turns off the plug powering the CO2 regulator.
  15. AndEEss
    Lots of people in the planted tank world use the Milwaukee MC122 pH controller, in conjunction with a smart plug and CO2 regulator. Smart Plug (timing of on/off) -> MC122 (pH drop) -> Regulator (rate) Doesn’t get you the reporting capability of the Apex but allows you to dial in the timing and intensity of your CO2 via pH drop. You never remove it from the tank other than for calibration, so no need to worry about it drying out.
  16. AndEEss
    Why are you putting fish in a non-cycled tank? I’d try to link up with a local aquarium club, LFS or anyone who will be willing to give you some filter media. Otherwise, you’ll be actively poisoning your fish why you do a fish-in cycle. But, as you seem resigned to this course of action, I’d recommend multiple 50% water changes per day for several weeks.
  17. AndEEss
    When someone takes to long to unhook a trout (or any fish), the best course of action is to put them into the water, facing upstream. This forces water into their mouths, and thus gills. I’d hold the fish in my filter outflow, if possible, in this scenario.
  18. AndEEss
    Why do you need to do anything? Just let the other fish do their job and keep your population in check. Unless you can bring in new genes, you’re likely going to be compounding a growing problem (inbreeding) in the hobby.
  19. AndEEss
    Poret foam, glass or acrylic baffles, a chamber with some K2 and a powerhead to agitate. Pretty easy to build.
  20. AndEEss
    30g is really, really small for Angelfish, unless it’s only one fish. They get quite large. For a pair, a 40 gallon tank would be OK. A group, 55g.
  21. AndEEss
    You could do a river/stream scape. Lots of large river rocks, and directional flow from one side to the other with a canister filter. Just make sure to use some sort of protection for the bottom of the tank if you go that route.
  22. AndEEss
    If you continuously replace cartridges, you are going to continually crash your cycle. Stop using them. Use foam as suggested above.
  23. AndEEss
    Do a 50-75% water change, immediately.
  24. AndEEss
    Since you’re resigned to a fish-in cycle, you should be doing regular, large water changes anyways. Also, you can likely make a home made sponge filter with things you have at home. Specifically, the filter media from your filter and your air stone/pump. Plenty of YouTube videos.
  25. AndEEss
    Why would you buy corydoras for cleaning your tank?
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