Hello,
I haven't been on here for a while, but things have calmed down at home now and I have some time... AT LAST!
Anyway, I had to buy a tank quite quickly as my external filter lid broke and I couldn't open it to clean it without being able to close it again, and as the tank is drilled and quite old I thought I'd buy a new aquarium, so what I did was put the new internal filter into the old tank for about a month, moved it over to the new tank with some of the old decor for seeding. I kept the cycle going by adding two fish and a load of snails, I also added some of the dirty water from the old tank I to the new after a clean every other day because the filter is inefficient now (this tank is planted also), then after testing the water everything was good. Ammonia 0, nirite 0, and nitrates 5, I added two more fish and did this over a course of a month, now I have 7 cories and a whole load of platy fry in there, my last danio and the rainbow shark that is temporary till I can find him a home. This morning I tested the water as I always do on a Tuesday and my levels have gone a bit crazy?
My ammonia is 0, my nitrates are 10, but my nirite is 0.25ppm.
I looked in the tank and my last salt and pepper Cory of 8 years is dead i have 6 bronze now.
I'm in the process of doing a huge water change, but I still have 2 sae, 3 glass fish and 5 glo lights to move over.... I don't want to rock the tanks levels again and risk losing anymore old timers, but my old tank is just a wrek and I can't clean the filter so it is just a sitting pool of water.How can I proceed without anyone else dying? My tank Inhabitants have been with me for many years, they have endured house moves and evaded capture from my 4 cats....
Also, on another note, as I am breaking down this old tank, I have some stuff to give away, a massive slate rock, lots of elodea, ramshorn snails, floating amazon frog bit, duck weed. Collection from North Manchester.
I haven't been on here for a while, but things have calmed down at home now and I have some time... AT LAST!
Anyway, I had to buy a tank quite quickly as my external filter lid broke and I couldn't open it to clean it without being able to close it again, and as the tank is drilled and quite old I thought I'd buy a new aquarium, so what I did was put the new internal filter into the old tank for about a month, moved it over to the new tank with some of the old decor for seeding. I kept the cycle going by adding two fish and a load of snails, I also added some of the dirty water from the old tank I to the new after a clean every other day because the filter is inefficient now (this tank is planted also), then after testing the water everything was good. Ammonia 0, nirite 0, and nitrates 5, I added two more fish and did this over a course of a month, now I have 7 cories and a whole load of platy fry in there, my last danio and the rainbow shark that is temporary till I can find him a home. This morning I tested the water as I always do on a Tuesday and my levels have gone a bit crazy?
My ammonia is 0, my nitrates are 10, but my nirite is 0.25ppm.
I looked in the tank and my last salt and pepper Cory of 8 years is dead i have 6 bronze now.
I'm in the process of doing a huge water change, but I still have 2 sae, 3 glass fish and 5 glo lights to move over.... I don't want to rock the tanks levels again and risk losing anymore old timers, but my old tank is just a wrek and I can't clean the filter so it is just a sitting pool of water.How can I proceed without anyone else dying? My tank Inhabitants have been with me for many years, they have endured house moves and evaded capture from my 4 cats....
Also, on another note, as I am breaking down this old tank, I have some stuff to give away, a massive slate rock, lots of elodea, ramshorn snails, floating amazon frog bit, duck weed. Collection from North Manchester.