Well, it looks like my panic about my new tank was mostly unnecessary. All the fish seem happy, the ick never became much of a problem and I now have no ammonia and moderate nitrate readings. ( I didn't buy a nitrite kit but I assume the nitrate reading means the nitrtite is getting broken down.) Thanks for all the advice everybody offered and Dan's offer to bring a nitrite test kit to the meeting for me. ( Dan I had to leave early so I am sorry if you brought it and we didn't connect.) I am thinking about what I might like to add next and I think it will be guppies. ( What? Not African cichlids? Not Kribs? I know, very pedestrian of me.) I have seen some online that are the type I think I would like to get but wonder if anybody in the group has them or is the guppy specialist who might have something else to suggest. I very much like the looks of the blue or blue-green fan tails with black bodies or moderately colored bodies. I also like the looks of what I think are called green or blue grass guppies. If anybody has any of these for sale or anything else something like that? _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member