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2 Corydoras paleatus I will try to be brief, but I want to give you as much info as you’ll need. My main concern is Sonny, one of our platys. I thought she was pregnant, but now fear she may be ill. Let me just back up and give you some history. I started this tank 6 weeks ago with the 2 platys. Had I found your site before I would have done a fishless cycle, but too late. Water chemistry was good for a week with no detectable ammonia or nitrite and nitrate SLOWLY rising. I carefully added 2 fish at a time over next few weeks and then did a really stupid thing. I vacuumed too much too soon and upset the biological filtration. I ended up with really cloudy water and now brown algae that is steadily covering the tank. I was testing 2x a day and of course ended up with an ammonia spike, so I started doing daily 20 to 40% ( depending on test readings) water changes with no vacuuming (all this started about 2 weeks ago). So, ammonia has stabilized and now we are doing the nitr

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