Recent content by leggoman

what size tank do you have? what size are the fish you added? ten fish added in a fish-less tank you may of just over loaded it. don't feed for a day or two 20% water change and test again

just a pic of my tank http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj514/Alan_Leggoman/my%20fish%20tank/IMG_0332.jpg

if i was putting in Pure RO water 75l I can understand what your saying and to a point agree it could be the reason iv lost fish. 75l out of 380l tank being remineralised should not kill my fish ill take reading as you have said and see what the readings are. its bringing another side to...

I take on board the points you have made, i am consistent with my tank up keep. ill be honest and say you point on matching tds of new water to old water is a little outside my understanding why i say that is if i take 75l out of my tank and put the same amount back in then i add 5 spoons of...

yes i added ammonia during fish-less cycle tank cycled ok added a few fish 5 or six left them to it for a few weeks then built my sump added that to tank and was going all ok tell two three weeks ago in that three week iv not done any thing apart from add 6 new fish platys that a few days later...

hi deaths occurred over two weeks. and when i first found dead fish the first thing i did was test water readings ok took water to lfs water tested ok two days later another dead fish fish all seemed ok another day another dead fish tested water still ok did a 75l water change few days another...

thank you so much for your replays. as for my tank temp it is at 26.5 the first phosphate reading was off the chart second reading was half first sorry did not look at numbers second time but I'm taken water to be tested today well to be honest how did the fish look before i found the dead? they...

iv stopped adding any thing now ammonia 0 PH 7 NO2 0 N03 20 phosphates new test ill get tomorrow the phosphates test dune today reading has come down 50% of what it was after 75l water change yesterday so ill do another water change today and hope that will bring every thing back to normal...

hi all ok first post and looking for some help with my tank? tropical 300l with 110l sump with about 75/80l of water in the sump so i have 375/380 water in all two power heads with under gravel filter co2 unit 5 watt UV 2 x 300watt heaters 2 x t8 lights 48" 1 x blue moon light 36" sump pump...