New Tank

[holly.d514]

In our 14 gallon, our fish are acting normal. We not endlers last night and we have them sitting in the breeders net, so our Ram or Gourami doesn't eat them and all of our fish are fascinated by them in there. We also bought a new plant today and of course our Gourami has taken over like normal.

When would it be good to move the Zebra's back over to our daughter's 10 gallon? Her tank water is pretty much like ours. High in Nitrite but her's is also high in Nitrate. We added a lot more plants to her tank this morning and all of the "filter juice" or Mulm that we got last night as well from lookslater so it should be getting better soon.......?

[aquabee]

I actually got an assassin snail last night. I'll add it in.

Cool! They're fun to watch when they actually get a hold of a snail.

[Chris.d514]

I actually got an assassin snail last night. I'll add it in.

[aquabee]

Oh, and as far as the snails are concerned, I'd get 'em under control now, especially if they are MTS (malaysian trumpet snails). Some people dose CopperSafe for a week or so to kill the snails, others like to get assassin snails to eat the snails. :)

[aquabee]

Yeah, there is a plant we got at the auction last week in there. I'm trying to get the pic to upload but i keep getting error codes I resized it from 3.8m to 138k but still won't upload. I got a test kit today and tested the 10 gallon and it was at the nitrite spike, ammonia is at 0. Testing my tank I have high nitrites also but i'm wondering if that is because of over stocking?

Your nitrite spike is probably due to an immature cycle. The plant should use up some of it, but I also like to dose Stability with daily water changes. Are the fish acting ok?

[Chris.d514]

Yeah, there is a plant we got at the auction last week in there. I'm trying to get the pic to upload but i keep getting error codes I resized it from 3.8m to 138k but still won't upload. I got a test kit today and tested the 10 gallon and it was at the nitrite spike, ammonia is at 0. Testing my tank I have high nitrites also but i'm wondering if that is because of over stocking?

[aquabee]

Moved all but 2 zebras back and was looking at my daughters tank and found about 6 random snails no clue where they came from or how they got there.

Do you have plants in there? That's how snails usually hijack their way into tanks. :)

[eklikewhoa]

Sleep is for the weak!

[Chris.d514]

I will take some tomorrow, err today after sleep.

[myjohnson]

Ok, so where are the pictures? :)

[Chris.d514]

Moved all but 2 zebras back and was looking at my daughters tank and found about 6 random snails no clue where they came from or how they got there.

[Chris.d514]

I moved the 7 zebras and endler to my daughters tank and now my tank looks bare.

[Chris.d514]

They look just like my emerald greens but 1/3 the size.

[eklikewhoa]

Those hoplo's are amazing... If I had a monster tank those would definitely be in it.

[mnemenoi]

are those bronzes (Corydoras aeneus)? or Emerald Greens (Brochis splendens)? I saw an awesome Aspidoras yesterday that was ginormous... I was truly stunned and Tran has some super huge hoplo's up at FR2.