Well since installing my new ex1200 ive had nothing but nightmares. i transfered old media to it, washed everything. even left in an internal filter to smooth the transition. ive done so many massive water changes to keep ammonia levels down its untrue. im starting to pull my hair out as it can't be good for them.
yesterday was very bad.
lost this week
7 neon tetras (yesterday, dropped one by one)
3 torpedo barbs just dropped one after the other ( yesterday within an hour of being fine)
4 juvi apistogramma
my beautiful pride and joy female ellioti
juvi firemouth
2 juvi rams
1 juvi festivum
the neons and torpedo barbs i noticed just suddenly stopped being able to swim. i was going to buy another 3 but no point now they died. my ammonia spiked yesterday to .50ppm 24 hours after a 90% water change, i'm utterly gutted. only 1 neon had a mark on it but i think that was because a festivum had a nip at it because it had stopped swimming. i have another tank with my baby guppies in it but i darn't move anything over incase its a disease.
i've ordered prime, melafix,primafix, cycle etc should be coming anytime.
my ammonia is testing at 0.25 and 0.50 yesterday before yet another massive water change. i cleaned pads iin old water, cleaned the substrate. no nitrites, slight level of nitrates. testing with API liquid kit. im thinking my little cherry barbs will be next as one looked iffy before but then picked up.
yesterday was very bad.
lost this week
7 neon tetras (yesterday, dropped one by one)
3 torpedo barbs just dropped one after the other ( yesterday within an hour of being fine)
4 juvi apistogramma
my beautiful pride and joy female ellioti
juvi firemouth
2 juvi rams
1 juvi festivum
the neons and torpedo barbs i noticed just suddenly stopped being able to swim. i was going to buy another 3 but no point now they died. my ammonia spiked yesterday to .50ppm 24 hours after a 90% water change, i'm utterly gutted. only 1 neon had a mark on it but i think that was because a festivum had a nip at it because it had stopped swimming. i have another tank with my baby guppies in it but i darn't move anything over incase its a disease.
i've ordered prime, melafix,primafix, cycle etc should be coming anytime.
my ammonia is testing at 0.25 and 0.50 yesterday before yet another massive water change. i cleaned pads iin old water, cleaned the substrate. no nitrites, slight level of nitrates. testing with API liquid kit. im thinking my little cherry barbs will be next as one looked iffy before but then picked up.