On Mar 16, 7:12*pm, "Alpha" wrote:
PS

There is cycled water and media available from LFS that know how to seed
tanks.

"Alpha" wrote in message

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My concern is that none NONE of the water involved in this thread is
cycled at all.

"ExPat" wrote in message
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On Mar 16, 9:59 am, (L u) wrote:
No they are not cycled.

Aged water is what is used to provide makeup or water change water out
of. *Cycled refers to a tank that has gone though the "cycle" of
ammonia, nitrite and nitrate stages before adding fish.......and at
which point should *be capable of supporting at least a light fish
load on initial stocking..as far as biological filtration etxc is
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The thing is if a tank is setup and cycled artificially it will be
just fine, but a tank that is filled with water one day and chlorine
remover etc added, and a day or two or even a week later fish are
added (goldies espeically) and having said tank equipped with an
undergravel filter........its just a recipie for a
disaster..........It takes time for a tank to mature (cycle) and get
populated with good bacteria which is essential in handling the bio
load and also having a filter with biological filtration capability
such as a cannister or hang on back type, or like I said, odds are its
doomed to fail..............Not only with sal****er but also
freswhwater setups it pays to go slow and easy and do not rush or get
lulled into buying fish just because their colors attracted you or
they have a special sale on them., There is going to be more fish for
sale and trust me.they will never run out of fish to sell so its not
like its a do or die thing when stocking a newly setup
aquarium............Once its established and trucking on yea, then you
can add more as long as the tank in general is not overstocked or
loaded for what it can handle. Probably more fish are killed by foks
pushing it tooo fast or overfeeding and stocking or stocking wrong
fish with wrong fish, anmd it need not be that this hobby seems to be
difficult as its not. It just needs to be taken a step at a time and
use and follow the correct info.......Too much of any8ting canbe as
bad as not enough and too much water changes can be just as bad as not
changing water at all.

Now that your down to two fish, just be satisfied with what you have
for now.......Watch the cory carefully.......and be carefull of any
treatments with a cory as they often times do not tolerate any
treatments that other fish do. I recall they do not like salt in the
tank either, which is a part of treating for ICH...in some
cases...........................get decent hob filters, keep
parameters correct, and do not go overboard on water
changes.......Look at getting that cory in with the gourami in the 5
gal tank, and also look for a larger tank to move em both
into......................and go very easy on feeding then. Every
other day or two ill work just fine, and feed em what they will only
consume in a say 2 minutes time.........There is no reason either of
those fish should up and die if they are housed and taken care of,
evfen if they both came down with ICH.....its not a death sentence for
either.........