2 Dead Fish This Week ?

[JohnBull]

Hi,

We have lost 2 fish in the last 5 days. The first was a Micky Mouse Platty which I found on Wednesday night at the back of the tank,then this morning, I found a small Tetra floating around with the other fish trying to eat it ? Both showed no signs of obvious desease (not an expert)or white spot,and I only found the Tetra this morning. I did the usual 15% water change on Thursday. Cleaned the top filter pad as per norm and try to keep a clean tank. API test showed nothing unusual, although the N2 Nitrate level was around 80ppm which for me is strangly normal due to our tap water being around 30ppm.

Should I do another water change ?



John.

 

[chickennuggets123]

How long have you had the 2 fish?

 

[JohnBull]

How long have you had the 2 fish?

Around 3 months.



John.

 

[chickennuggets123]

Have you added any fish this week?
Can your filtre handle the amount of waste being produced?



Maybe it could just be something simple as old age. If you got them from a pet shop, maybe they could have been there for a bit of a long time, and you only had them for 3 months.

 

[bullit]

if your tap water is 30, your tank water should be 30. Id do a 50 percent water change now and then 25 everday till it is down. What is your amonia?

 

[JohnBull]

Have you added any fish this week?
Can your filtre handle the amount of waste being produced?



Maybe it could just be something simple as old age. If you got them from a pet shop, maybe they could have been there for a bit of a long time, and you only had them for 3 months.

We did recently have a batch of fry,although only around 5 or 6 remain.

Tank is 180 lts.

Fish list is as follows.


6 Swordfish

5 Guppies

4 Pearl Gurami (2 Male 2 Female)

4 MALE Micky Mouse Platties

5 FEMALE Balloon Platies

3 small Clown loach

7 Neon Tetra

7 Glow light Tetra



John.

 

[Tizer]

nitrate at 80 is fine.

 

[JohnBull]

if your tap water is 30, your tank water should be 30. Id do a 50 percent water change now and then 25 everday till it is down. What is your amonia?

Hi,

AMMONIA IS NIL

NITRITE IS NIL

NITRATE IS 80ppm

PH IS 7.5



John.

 

[JohnBull]

Hi,

Decided to do another 15% water change.

Nitrate reading is more or less the same at 60-80ppm.

Is this an acceptable level ?


John.

 

[bullit]

Id say 40 and less

 

[Jinty McGinty]

nitrate at 80 is fine.

You don't need to do water change for the nitrate as Tizer has said already it's fine.