The changes, slowly but surely, were definitely for the better. We didn't start our very well with pretty high ammonia and nitrate. Our plants that we added really grew a lot over time and grew new stems or leaves just by over night sometimes! So we went from 0 plants to 3! I remember when we started out, our water was never clear. That tank, I figured, was not used as much as the others so the rocks were very dirty and when we sifted through the rocks in the beginning over and over the tank still turned out dirty when we put the water in. On this date however you would see our tank as clean a crystal because we did a full water change and siphoned it every week! Even with the hard work overall ten fish did die. Technically though, it wasn't really our fault. We took pretty good care of them, but most died from the filter being to strong (killing two of our fish), Mrs. Wood giving me the bacteria instead of the dechlorinator (four fish died), and the rest died from stress from when we got them, to putting them in the tank.
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