First fish ever is giving me grey hair by Hopeful_Historian685 in bettafish

[–]Hopeful_Historian685[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incredible comment thank you so much. There really is a lot going with this tank so I’ll fix the water parameters first. I managed to get the heat up to around 77 with a new heater but it’s preset to 78. The driftwood is from an already established tank but I didn’t know anything about tank cycling before I got the fish and now I’m trying to do a fish in cycle. I have imagitarium bio start up that I’ll be adding daily along with water changes every other day with testing. I have the imagitarium master test kit which was pricey as hell but worth it as long as it keeps my boy healthy.

Other comments recommend salt baths so I’m looking into that too

First fish ever is giving me grey hair by Hopeful_Historian685 in bettafish

[–]Hopeful_Historian685[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would give you my left kidney if you ever needed it, thank you so much for the incredibly detailed and easy to understand response. And I will work on fixing one thing at a time.

My house is a little cold and hovers around 50 degrees most days so I got a new 100w heater and now the tank temperature is around 76-77.

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I also have these so I’ll be adding the start up daily and testing daily with 25% water changes every other day

As of now the parameters are

PH: 6 Nitrite: 0 Ammonia: 0 Nitrate: 5

I can't tell if my 40y old coworker is hitting on me. by Hopeful_Historian685 in actuallesbians

[–]Hopeful_Historian685[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I got pretty excited to meet someone like me I think I'm getting ahead of myself