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nitrogen cycle Tank Cycling - No Nitrites?
Skylar.grey posted a topic in Substrates and Water Chemistry
So I’m new at both fish keeping and shrimp keeping. Now I have 2 - 5 gallon fish tanks (one with a Hillstream loach, 4 Danios, a couple moss balls and some hornwort. The other has 1 male betta, 2 mystery snails, a moss ball and some hornwort) and 1 - 29 gallon tank that I’m currently trying to cycle (right now it has hornwort, java moss and some spiderwood in it but no fish/snails/shrimp) I’ve been testing my water in all my tanks about once a week. I started my two other fish tanks out of an impulse almost... I saw my betta at Pet Supplies Plus had a tank in my basement and decided I had to take him home... so I hadn’t cycled my 5 gallon tanks before I stuck anything in. I know it’s not good but I hadn’t done any research so I didn’t know better. Now I do. But my question is: I haven’t had ANY nitrites in any of my tanks. My ammonia and nitrates are there... my ammonia hasn’t gotten over 1 ppm and my nitrates haven’t gotten over around 40 ppm in ANY tank that I have. But why am I not seeing any nitrites? Is it Bc my tanks have plants in them? Thank you for reading this super long post and thanks in advance for any advice/answers you can give😊 -
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Hi what kind of shrimp would people here recommend keeping with a male Betta fish?
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I realized I never did intro my two bettas. They are LFS bettas and have big personalities. "Bubba" is the blue one and "Puck" is the multicolored one. Puck has emotional issues.. lol he likes to slam head first into anything and everything so I think he is not quite 'all there'. I have a video to prove it, he's a bit nuts. ha ha Bubba is in a 5.5 planted tank, Puck is in a 2.5. I tried to put Puck in a luxury 10 gallon and he completely freaked and spent 5 days of intense, nearly non stop glass surfing and stopped eating. I put him back into his little 2.5 tank and he has been happy ever since..in his odd ball way. Anyhow.. here are the boys Bubba in his 5.5 close up of Bubba Puck Puck, younger, with attitude