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Thank you for the useful info mudraker. :) If I can't find someone to feed our fish while we're gone, will an automatic feeder work just as well (any particular kind that's best?)? Thankfully we haven't gone longer than an hour at most without power so far (definitely not the case for a lot...

Hey everyone! :) Well thanks to a lot of help from some of you here on the site, I've got my 10 gallon tank successfully up and running for about 2-3 months now. Got 4 awesome female guppies in there that have been doing quite fine so far. I love the little guys .. Er, girls. ;) My husband and...

Alright, well it's certainly been a while, hasn't it? Things are going fantastic though! The tank has cycled and I got 4 awesome guppies and one little neon tetra. I originally had two neon tetras, but one guy didn't make it. I know tetras are schooling fish, and that I should probably have...

Crap! I didn't know that ... Thanks for the quick response. I honestly thought ammonia would just keep going up until I got some nitrite reading. :( Silly me. Yeah, I'll get on that right away. No, I don't. None of the few friends that I made out here have a fish tank ... It's hard moving...

Alright .. Hi guys! :) It's been a while, but I figured I didn't want to bore you all with an update of my test results each day. ;) It's been almost 4 weeks now since I started my 10 gallon tank and I am really trying my best to hang in here and be patient with everything, but it's getting a...

Awesome and good to know! :D Honestly, Im finding this whole process a lot more interesting that I thought it would be. :) I've been talking to my husband over the phone about it all and he keeps saying that fish are too much work. :rolleyes:

Dead shrimp, with a tiny, tiny amount of flake food here and there occasionally. Seems to be working well so far.

I shouldn't start doing PWC's until after the tank has cycled, right?

Woke up this morning and noticed the tank was significantly less cloudy than it had been for the past couple of days. Tested for pH (8.2) and Ammonia only ... After 5 days of the tank being set up, I've finally got some Ammonia readings! .50ppm! :D ... I think Im getting a little too excited...

Yeah, I was shaking every bottle of ammonia that I picked up. They all foamed, haha. Oh, nothing's wrong with my tap water ... I was just wondering, honestly. Researching and looking things up leads to a lot of questions sometimes. :D

Hmm, you're probably right. Honestly, all I did was ask and didn't bother to really look around. Serves me right though, I guess. I'll go back tomorrow and actually look around myself to see if they have it or not. It was a bit funny asking the employee's of each store if they had industrial...

Middle TN here! Just an hour north/northwest of Nashville. :D Clarksville, TN. :)

I just spent most of the evening driving around town trying to find places that sell "pure" ammonia. Turns out, there's not a single store around here that sells it (or maybe there is, but I haven't found them yet!). I checked 5 different places: Grandpa's Hardware (ACE), Rural King, Home...

So, I've decided to just leave the tank as is and let it run it's course. I feel like the cycling process has already begun and I don't really want to interrupt anything. I got the API Freshwater Master Test Kit and tested everything: pH - 7.6 Ammonia - 0ppm Nitrite - 0ppm Nitrate - 0ppm...

10 gallon starter tank with two fantail goldfish.

I got a ten gallon starter tank on Thursday along with 2 fantail goldfish. Unfortunately, I didn't know what I was getting myself into and didn't do any research on tanks or fish until after I had bought and set everything up. As expected, the 2 poor fantail goldfish died Saturday night and...

I realized that after I bought the tank. :( I hate the thought of bringing them back, but I guess it's better than them living a cramped and dirty life style. Could I just keep one and take the other back? 10 gallons is enough for one goldfish, right? See, I didn't really think ammonia would...

Tank first time setup: After a day in the tank: Tank after air bubbler was placed in:

Hi everyone. :) Yesterday I was out driving around and throught to myself, "I should buy some goldfish!" I'd been considering buying some goldfish for a while now and finally I just went and did it ... My only experience with goldfish that I have is watching the immortal goldfish, that my...