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greyshep · 01-15-2009, 12:37 PM

Sorry to revive a somewhat buried thread.

My two daughters each received a 10gallon starter kit for Christmas this year. Needless to say they were pretty excited to get started. So off to the pet store to pick up some fish we went.

I wont bore you with all the details, but we are now approaching mid-cycle I believe. Tanks have a swordtail and a platy in each as well as a chinese algae eater. We lost a couple of guppies at the beginning (likely due to high ammonia levels)

One of the swordtails was preggers when we bought it so we have a nursery net filled with 12 fry in one of the tanks as well.

We are struggling to keep the ammonia and nitrite levels under control at the moment. My daughter is gonna be pretty sad if we lose these baby fish.

I have been doing almost daily partial water changes to stem the ammonia and nitrite tide. Any advice from the peanut gallery?

Wishing we would have done a fishless cycle as Photon says above.

How is everyone elses' tanks coming along?

01-15-2009, 12:37 PM	#55
greyshep #1 Goaltender Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Satellite Community Exp:	Sorry to revive a somewhat buried thread. My two daughters each received a 10gallon starter kit for Christmas this year. Needless to say they were pretty excited to get started. So off to the pet store to pick up some fish we went. I wont bore you with all the details, but we are now approaching mid-cycle I believe. Tanks have a swordtail and a platy in each as well as a chinese algae eater. We lost a couple of guppies at the beginning (likely due to high ammonia levels) One of the swordtails was preggers when we bought it so we have a nursery net filled with 12 fry in one of the tanks as well. We are struggling to keep the ammonia and nitrite levels under control at the moment. My daughter is gonna be pretty sad if we lose these baby fish. I have been doing almost daily partial water changes to stem the ammonia and nitrite tide. Any advice from the peanut gallery? Wishing we would have done a fishless cycle as Photon says above. How is everyone elses' tanks coming along? Last edited by greyshep; 01-15-2009 at 02:48 PM. Reason: Typo on nitrite, big difference.