Hi there, Im getting into all sorts of trouble.
I hope I don't aggitate anyone experienced. I have just started maintaining the plants properly around 1-2 months ago - before that time it was just basic water changes and cleaning the algae from the glass, replacing the filter sponges as advised in the thank manual.
My fish have been showing signs of stress for a week now (maybe longer, none have died as yet). Originally I thought the signs of stress were from injecting too much C02, but the signs of stress have continued (actually getting worse) after gradually lowering the C02. I first started out with C02 around 1/2 weeks ago.
After stumbling across the symptoms for ammonia poisening in a reference book I went out to by a test kit, although didn't know exactly what I was getting and ending up with a tetra test kit for total ammonia.
Anyway, this came out at 0.25 mg/l. I've tested my tap water and this showed 0 mg/l.
Current tank water:
PH: 7.5 (did get it down to 6.5 with C02, as above)
KH: 4
GH: 13
NO2: below 0.3mg/l
125L Juwel Tank with internal filter (no carbon sponge, nitrate sponge was replaced a few months ago with some sort of Fluval nitrite and nitrate remover bag as reccommended by local dealer when I asked if they had any of the Juwel green sponges)
Use Nutrafin+ tap conditioner
Changing 20-30L of water weekly.
Since starting with C02 about 1-2weeks ago:
Applying 10ml of Tropica Plant Nutrition+ once a week
Two trops of JBL Ferropol 24hour daily (came with the C02 set)
Symptons are:
One of the tetras is showing whitespot, another has some sort of a white marking on the fin
Smaller fish gasping very quickly and showing redness around mouth and inside of fins.
My only rainbow fish doesn't seem to swim round as much and seems more than happy to remain in the same spot.
A couple of other tetras look slightly swollen along the underside of the fish.
They are still feeding, but swimming very strangly, e.g. staying in one place or moving erraticly then stopping again.
If this is related I had a servere outbreak of whitespot about 6-8 weeks ago, about 4-5 fish died. The tank as far as I know is about 5-6 years in the running with a few plants. Filled it out with more plants about 3 months ago.
I have know idea how long this has been going on for, as I only started to obersve the fish recently. I also am new to knowing about ammonia, the tank was passed onto me from a previous owner who I used to live with.
So far I've given the gravel a good clean, cleaned rocks, pump and washed the filters.
I wish I knew about this earlier :silent:
Any help would be more than greatly appriciated.
I hope I don't aggitate anyone experienced. I have just started maintaining the plants properly around 1-2 months ago - before that time it was just basic water changes and cleaning the algae from the glass, replacing the filter sponges as advised in the thank manual.
My fish have been showing signs of stress for a week now (maybe longer, none have died as yet). Originally I thought the signs of stress were from injecting too much C02, but the signs of stress have continued (actually getting worse) after gradually lowering the C02. I first started out with C02 around 1/2 weeks ago.
After stumbling across the symptoms for ammonia poisening in a reference book I went out to by a test kit, although didn't know exactly what I was getting and ending up with a tetra test kit for total ammonia.
Anyway, this came out at 0.25 mg/l. I've tested my tap water and this showed 0 mg/l.
Current tank water:
PH: 7.5 (did get it down to 6.5 with C02, as above)
KH: 4
GH: 13
NO2: below 0.3mg/l
125L Juwel Tank with internal filter (no carbon sponge, nitrate sponge was replaced a few months ago with some sort of Fluval nitrite and nitrate remover bag as reccommended by local dealer when I asked if they had any of the Juwel green sponges)
Use Nutrafin+ tap conditioner
Changing 20-30L of water weekly.
Since starting with C02 about 1-2weeks ago:
Applying 10ml of Tropica Plant Nutrition+ once a week
Two trops of JBL Ferropol 24hour daily (came with the C02 set)
Symptons are:
One of the tetras is showing whitespot, another has some sort of a white marking on the fin
Smaller fish gasping very quickly and showing redness around mouth and inside of fins.
My only rainbow fish doesn't seem to swim round as much and seems more than happy to remain in the same spot.
A couple of other tetras look slightly swollen along the underside of the fish.
They are still feeding, but swimming very strangly, e.g. staying in one place or moving erraticly then stopping again.
If this is related I had a servere outbreak of whitespot about 6-8 weeks ago, about 4-5 fish died. The tank as far as I know is about 5-6 years in the running with a few plants. Filled it out with more plants about 3 months ago.
I have know idea how long this has been going on for, as I only started to obersve the fish recently. I also am new to knowing about ammonia, the tank was passed onto me from a previous owner who I used to live with.
So far I've given the gravel a good clean, cleaned rocks, pump and washed the filters.
I wish I knew about this earlier :silent:
Any help would be more than greatly appriciated.