He said he's had Ammonia/Nitrite: 0 for the last week
Nitrate has stayed steady at 5 or so.
So I'm going to get a puffer fish...
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He said he's had Ammonia/Nitrite: 0 for the last week
Nitrate has stayed steady at 5 or so.
Ok, testing for another week is fine. That is when one of my LFSs sell figure 8 puffers. Also someone else recommended that to keep up with the waste that f8s put out, I use biospira. This seems like it would work, so I will get bio spira when I purchase the puffer. After a day or so, I will do a 25% water change and replace those 5 gallons with 5 gallons that contain half a tsp of sea salt. Next week I'll do this but I'll add 1 whole tsp, and so on. Also I have learned from here that ghost shrimp don't produce enough waste to cause problems/cycle a tank, but I might change the fish's diet after I buy a new tankmate. To prevent the bumblebee gobies from getting eaten, I'll put in little tubes and stuff to hide in.
I thought that in my LFS there was something in a frozen packet that looked like Bio-Spira.
But just in case the bio spira dies and I get owned from my own stupidity, I'll save half of the bio spira.
So yeah, I have everything planned out.
What are you acclimating? Do you mean increasing the S.G?
You should not be placing the burden of reducing ammonia and nitrite levels on shrimp, fish or plants. Your plants are not going to eat up ammonia and nitrites like a fat kid, especially in brackish water. The shrimp will not eat ALL of the leftover food in you tank. And withholding food from your fish to reduce waste, especially juvenile fish who are still growing, is not acceptable. You need a fully established biological filter before you add the puffer. They are very sensitive to ammonia and nitrites. You should have had an established bio filter before adding the BBGs. If you think that plants, shrimp and restricted diets are the solutions to ammonia and nitrites then you are doomed to fail. If you are too impatient to cycle your tank correctly, you need to stop this venture now. Because judging from the overall tone of your posts, you are not the type to do daily water changes to reduce the ammonia and nitrite levels in your uncycled tank. And your fish will die.
If the bacteria that you add dies because it can not survive in the environment you create, how will keeping half of it out of the tank help?
Yes, I am talking about increasing the S.G. after I buy the f8
Zaffy told me that my tank is cycled but it can only support the two gobies. (or something like that) That is why I'll get bio-spira the same time I purchase the puffer. phoenixn7g recommended I buy bio-spira.
The idea of using shrimp to reduce ammonia in the tank was only a suggestion. I have not tried it at all. And I wanted the fish to switch to ghost shrimp larvae rather than brine shrimp.
When I fed the gobies every day rather than every other day they would not eat all of their food even if I gave them the smallest amounts possible. Feeding them every other day means that they will finish all their food. I might switch back to feeding every day because it is highly recommended here, but I will feed small amounts. Hey, if it's too much bio-load, I'll return the gobies. I only wanted a puffer fish anyway.
Doing water changes every day would be difficult for me because my parents would think I'm wasting water and I would end up soaking my whole room. (which the tank is in) I have tested for ammonia in the tank since August 16 and there is no ammonia or nitrites, so the only time I'd change is if OMFG THERE IS A HUEG SPIKE OF NITRITES AND AMMONIA MY FISH R GUNNA DAI!!!111 And I am testing the water quality frequently so I could tackle a situation like that very quickly.
For the past week or so when I was on here, nobody said that the anacharis wouldn't help clean up the ammonia. IMO ammonia is in fertilizer for land plants so aquatic plants should somehow be able to consume ammonia. inb4 land plants and aquatic plants are totally different you are wrong blah blah blah.
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When you get the puffer in there, you'll have to do water changes maybe everyday until the mini-cycle completes. Also, 4chan is bad for you.
What I was trying to ask is: if the first half dies in the tank, why do you think the second half would live in the same tank?
