New Tank

[aquabee]

If my water test ok today should I be able to move my endlers back to the 10? I ask because I am keeping them in a breed net that my powder blue gourami keeps trying to eat through to get at them.

Yeah, I don't see why not. Just make sure your ammonia and nitrites and nitrates are down, and then there's no reason not to move them over. You can add some Stability to the 10 when you move the fish over too.

[Chris.d514]

Been adding stability everyday on day 5 of 7 so almost done with it.

[aquabee]

Awesome! FYI you can also dose stability whenever adding new fish to the tank or doing water changes, just as an extra precaution even in established tanks.

[Chris.d514]

With my water changes I have been adding AmQuel Plus and NovAqua Plus alternating.

[mnemenoi]

with cycling tanks the idea is to allow everything to stabalize and basically age a bit. Algae growth and a crystal clarity to the water is also another indicator I watch for, though your parameters will tell you where you are everytime. That said, it can be a cycled with some fish just remember to keep your bioload at a minimal during this time. I imagine 10-15% of what you'd expect to keep in the tank. It allows for a larger volume of water to diffuse a smaller amount of produced wastes and the bacteria to grow and multiply while not flooding them with excessive amounts of waste that they can not handle. I'd just watch it carefully and perform regular water changes every other day or sooner if your test results are outside of the norm or the fish exhibit any signs of distress. Smaller feeding amounts will help also, if they are a bit hungry during this time its not awful and far better then the alternative...

[eklikewhoa]

This totally slipped my mind till last night but aquarium sale/ natural sea salt WITH NO ANTI-CAKING AGENT will reduce the toxicity of Nitrites.

[Chris.d514]

How much should be added to help with it?

[eklikewhoa]

I always use 1tbsp per 5g. not sure what you are keeping at them moment but that should be good.

[Chris.d514]

Dwarf gourami, 5-6 ghost shrimp, 4 zebras, and 2 endlers but have another 3 endlers waiting for tank to be ready.

[Chris.d514]

Tank levels are .5 ammonia, 2 nitrite, and between 5 and 10 nitrate.

[eklikewhoa]

Tbsp per 5g is what I would do.

[aquabee]

In an emergent situation, you can also dose Prime at up to 5 times the normal dose to reduce toxicity of nitrites/nitrates and also increase slime coat. The problem with that is that it'll falsely show elevated ammonia levels when you test.

[Chris.d514]

With the levels it showing I'm not too worried right now but will watch fish and test every 3 days or so til cycled. Also gonna wait one adding endlers til numbers are better.

[Chris.d514]

So I got home tonight and looked at my daughters tank an found 2 dead glofish, a dead endler, and a dead shrimp I moved over the rest of the glofish/zebras. All that's left in her tank is a dwarf gourami and some ghost shrimp.

[aquabee]

Oh no. What happened? Parameters?