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O well, no news really, all water tests came back fine, good in a way, but not in another, as it would have given me something to work with. Have finally decided to dose for internal bacteria infection, as there's no signs on the fish, and it's not the water, dosing seems to be the only thing...

When I have the results, my next question will be about RO water, what are your thougths please? I have already performed at least a 60% water change over last 4 days, so not sure about changing too much more? Thanks, J

Still losing fish, another 2 dead today so far. I am taking some water samples up to Maiednhead aq. both my tap water and tank water, I really need to find out what on earth is going on here. Have added carbon and just going to add polyfilter too. It so looks like water probs, but..... I'll...

Ah ok sorry ceg. Thansk for leaving it up. Cheers Fred, I need to say thanks about the filter being clogged, I am hoping against hope that this has been the problem, I was up at 6, and took all pipes to do with external filter of and washed them all through, they were clogged with bits brown...

Fish dying!! Duplicate post-sorry.

Hi, I'm back from day out, this is awful, I have no idea what is going in in my tank. :( First thing tomorrow I will hoover again the tank floor, and do a water change. I changed the filter wool last week, but I'l do it again, and check and refill filter. I don't have any carbon, will buy...

Hi, Jay's partner again (she's on the phone) Just got home from work, 2 more dead fish, one cardinal and one other, maybe an oto. remaining 2 cardinals looking bleached out and not swimming around. All red and black phantoms look fine. Help. could there be something wrong in the filter...

don't know if it makes any difference, all the fish that died were the older ones- all about 3 years old at least. None of the younger ones we added less than a year ago are affected.

Jackie's partner here. fish were just dead, 2 floating, 2 part eaten. all other fish fine. 3 cardinals and 1 rummy nose died, 5 rummies, 3 cardinals 5 red phantoms and 5 black phantoms, 2 dwarf chain loaches, 3 panda cories, 2 siamese flying foxes and 2 otos left. no aeriation (if that means...

Hi All, (last night) ok, I have an established, heavily planted 4' tank. 27 fish (now!) Fed every other day with frozen brine shrimp or dap. (frozen) algae wafers, and pellets for cories. (Did feed live brine shrimp last week, first time for months) Cleaned for their usual routine 50% water...

Thanks :) gosh this is all such a learning curve :)

Ahhh :oops: thanks for the advice, I thought the water I'd bought was thte same :oops: Jackie

Hi, I have a drop checker now, and I use de ironised water for car batteries in it, then drop 3 drops of reagent in. The very first time it went blue, then green and stayed green. Now for the life of me I cannot get the water to go blue! It just goes yellow immediately. I've tried this so many...

Thanks so much, I was so worried it was going up and down. This is the first time I have ever used co2. At the moment I have it a 1 bubble every 3 seconds, but I hope to pick up more plants over the weekend so I will adjust accordingly. I will sit down with my partner and work out we have it...

Hi, I've ordered one, I'm just waiting for it to arrive, then I'll set it up. Do you think it's safe for my fish to go back in there then? Do you also run an extra airstone after the co2 has turned off? Maidenhead have advised me to do this. Thanks J.

Hi, i have now started to inject co2 into the tank, there's no fish in there at the moment, they are still in the other tank they were moved to when the braace broke. This has given us the oppotunity to start co2. However I'm having trouble with the PH, the tap water is 8.0,(these are taken...

Took ammonia up to 4 at 9pm yesterday, at 9am ammonia was 0 nitrite was 0.5, by 9pm it was 0. so I will do this routine for another week just to be on the safeside, then i'll do a a large water change and add plants and some but not all my fish. Very interesting article Aaron, thanks for...

Both posted at the same time Aaron! Ah ok thanks Aaron, I'll raise the ammonia at 9pm so as I can test tomorrow am, that gives the correct 12 hours to process through. Thanks for the explaination, I see what you mean now, that the nitrate is ok compared to the ammonia and nitrite. Ever heard...

Ok, so what do I do next? Raise the ammonia? Water change and then add my fish/plants? I'm really not sure, this has never happened after such a short time before. Ta.

Sorry Aaron now you have totally lost me. What has thrown me this time is that the nitrate has dropped to 10, without the normal 90% water change. So, do I raise the ammonia level again to 3ppm and then check all again in 12 hours, or do a massive water change, which I can't see will help...

Hi, thanks that's what I normally do, BUT the nitrates are at 10, and I've done any water change! :?:

Hi, I'm cycling a 4' tank, and I'm on to the second stage, well I was... after a week the ammonia has dropped to 0, so I raised back up to 3ppm. Nitrite was off the scale, 48 hours later ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 10. Where on earth do I go from here? I have the fish ready to transfer...