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[mnemenoi]

+1 Parameters will help, I have a feeling its just spiking far too high on either Ammonia or Nitrites. Depends on where you are in the cycle... I'd honestly pull everything out and wait to finish a fishless cycle...

[Chris.d514]

Waiting for my wife to test since she said she enjoys testing but moved everything but a ghost shrimp that would not be caught and the assassin snail

[mnemenoi]

I know the feeling, glad to hear Holly enjoys it. Its fun in its own certain way. The ghost shrimp can be finicky and will likely not make it either way, but the snail should be fine. If it does not work, your more then welcome to as many as you'd like later.

[Chris.d514]

Here's a pic the ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates are high.

[mnemenoi]

That is certainly the culprit, lol. In all honesty I would just let it roll on as is and it will all work itself out. Eventually the ammonia will fall to 0, followed by the Nitrites and eventually only nitrates will remain. Do some water changes to drop them at that time and you'll be golden. I'd just let it go as is, you have decent numbers, so the bacteria will have more then enough to feed on and eventually it will cycle.

[Chris.d514]

Yeah we are just gonna leave the plants and one ghost shrimp and let it do it's thing, testing once a month.

[eklikewhoa]

I really hate cycling a tank since you have to wait forever with an empty tank and even after it cycles, the addition of fish could cause a bloom.

I've always just filled with fish and do daily water changes till it settles. Safer for the fish IMO and it allows for the filtration to slowly catch up to the load properly. Not for the weak at heart I guess but that could be an option if you are fed up with replacing fish.

[Chris.d514]

So idk what happened overnight but 0 ammonia and .25 nitrites.

[eklikewhoa]

It's being converted and starting to establish

[mnemenoi]

Congrats!!! You've now been through the first step of cycling. Now you'll have to watch your nitrites like a hawk as yours will skyrocket. Its the next step, and after it spikes it will have another bacteria begin to flourish and start converting it to Nitrate and you're tank will be fully cycled. The only way to remove nitrates is water changes (plants can use some, but unless its a fully planted tank they'll only put a minor dent in it)

[SunnyHouTX]

Yes it is. Very good news Chris. Because you're using Stability, you can let the tank run for a couple of days more without worrying too much about nitrite toxicity and you will see the nitrites will also go down.

[Chris.d514]

The nitrites were above 5 yesterday and down to .25 today will there be another bloom of them?

[SunnyHouTX]

Probably not. Maybe a small one if you add more fish

[Chris.d514]

It has 0 fish in it right now I pulled them 3-4 days ago when 4 died at once. I think I may move the gourami back today and the endlers in a few days.

[mnemenoi]

I would recommend waiting until you get 0 ammonia and 0 Nitrites