Well, I woke up this morning to a horrible sight.
My 2 year old Bala sharks passed away in the middle of the night. Thankfully, none of the fish pecked at them...
But after finding their bodies, I questioned what could have caused this...
I had checked my ammonia, and nitrites with droppers, and my nitrites (again), nitrates, pH, GH and KH, ammonia was going into the .3 zone (not good).. So I added 1/2 the recommended dose of prime, as well as some fresh water.
I tested the Nitrite and that was fine. It was still blue, a little dark, but still blue.
the tank is a 60 gallon tank... it has a fluval 404 pump...
This morning the Nitrite was at 5 ppm (YIKES!)
I grabbed my gold skirt tetra (nice see through skin) to look at the colour of his gills to base the tank off of.
His entire face was a brown colour... I got very scared.
I immediately changed 25% of the water, put some salt in and removed all vegetables and food pellets from the bottom feeder.
After I changed that water (whilst the fish were all piping at the top) I had to go to class...
When I got home, the nitrite was around 2.5 ppm (yay), but still bad...
Should I just continue the water change treatment until the nitrite goes away?
The fish are all swimming again, instead of just piping, the bottom feeder is actually movie, and the gold skirt tetra is no long a brown faced fish..
Is there anything I can do, besides changing the water everyday?
Should I change it every day?
I will not be feeding for 3 days to help stabalize the Nitrate as well...
Any advice on what to do?
By the way, I had measured both Bala sharks the week before - and they were 4" and 3.5"... I measured them again today.. a whopping 5" and 4"!!!
They grew a lot faster than I expected them to...
My 2 year old Bala sharks passed away in the middle of the night. Thankfully, none of the fish pecked at them...
But after finding their bodies, I questioned what could have caused this...
I had checked my ammonia, and nitrites with droppers, and my nitrites (again), nitrates, pH, GH and KH, ammonia was going into the .3 zone (not good).. So I added 1/2 the recommended dose of prime, as well as some fresh water.
I tested the Nitrite and that was fine. It was still blue, a little dark, but still blue.
the tank is a 60 gallon tank... it has a fluval 404 pump...
This morning the Nitrite was at 5 ppm (YIKES!)
I grabbed my gold skirt tetra (nice see through skin) to look at the colour of his gills to base the tank off of.
His entire face was a brown colour... I got very scared.
I immediately changed 25% of the water, put some salt in and removed all vegetables and food pellets from the bottom feeder.
After I changed that water (whilst the fish were all piping at the top) I had to go to class...
When I got home, the nitrite was around 2.5 ppm (yay), but still bad...
Should I just continue the water change treatment until the nitrite goes away?
The fish are all swimming again, instead of just piping, the bottom feeder is actually movie, and the gold skirt tetra is no long a brown faced fish..
Is there anything I can do, besides changing the water everyday?
Should I change it every day?
I will not be feeding for 3 days to help stabalize the Nitrate as well...
Any advice on what to do?
By the way, I had measured both Bala sharks the week before - and they were 4" and 3.5"... I measured them again today.. a whopping 5" and 4"!!!
They grew a lot faster than I expected them to...