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Hi I've gotten good help from these forums and I'm almost at the stage of saving my tank. My cycle stalled out and my ammonia went through the roof and my ph crashed, killed all my beneficial bacteria and ive been unable to establish a new bacteria colony. I've since stabilised the ph to 7.0...

Hi, new fish keeper here. I set up a tank two weeks ago, and I was waiting on some plants before I added fish as I was unable to find suitable ammonia to cycle it. However, last week when I finally found the plants I wanted and put them in I had an ammonia spike (4ppm). I have no idea what...

Hi, ive had a little oranda for a couple of month and he is white & orange. Recently he has got some black streaks on his fin. The fins arent damaged as such but it has appeared quite quickly so I'm worried it is ammonia even though my tank ammonia tester says 'safe'... i will add a pic...

I've been trying to do a fishless cycle for a 5 gallon tank (for a betta fish) for 6 weeks and was starting to get impatient, so I did some more research into the methods I was using, and my heart sank when I found the 'Just set up new aquarium' thread in this forum. I seem to have fallen into...