fmervin
Fish Fanatic
Hi all,
Last week I chnaged my internal fiter to the fluval U3 internal filter. This is how I did it, I took the media from my old filter and cut up the media and placed it into the Fluval U3 compartments. Also transferred the ceramic media to the middle compartment. So the original bacteria should have still been there. Obviously, while taking off the media and then cutting it it up (to fit the compartments) there might have been a loss of bacteria. However, the fish seemed to be doing great for the first few days. I didn't check the water stats since the fish looked happier. The tank was scrubbed clean, it is quite a powerful filter. However, I noticed some of the few fish were getting pushed back by the current so I turned the knob to B which they say is a gentle flow from between the filter and this was ok for a day or two again, however a couple of days back I saw a few of the small fish dead and the shrimps feasting on them and yesterday I saw each shrimp turning orange and dying
I have seven shrimps of which 3 have died and the remaining 4 are just huddled behind the bogwood obviously not too happy and I'd imagine they would die in the next couple of days.
I checked the water stats last night and this is what I found:
Ammonia - 0.6 (strange since it was always 0 for me)
nitrite - 0.1
nitrate - 5
so it seems obviously something is wrong and perhaps the tank has gone into a cycle again, perhaps I washed the media a bit too much
I put in about 3 capfuls of 'cycle' yesterday which claims to help beneficial bacteria, hopefully that should help. The shrimp still look miserable.
My 2 loaches seem to enjoy the shrimps, should I be leaving the shrimps there as a meal for them? Obviously 7 might be too many and might pollute the water so I might take out the remaining and leave one?
Any advice?
Last week I chnaged my internal fiter to the fluval U3 internal filter. This is how I did it, I took the media from my old filter and cut up the media and placed it into the Fluval U3 compartments. Also transferred the ceramic media to the middle compartment. So the original bacteria should have still been there. Obviously, while taking off the media and then cutting it it up (to fit the compartments) there might have been a loss of bacteria. However, the fish seemed to be doing great for the first few days. I didn't check the water stats since the fish looked happier. The tank was scrubbed clean, it is quite a powerful filter. However, I noticed some of the few fish were getting pushed back by the current so I turned the knob to B which they say is a gentle flow from between the filter and this was ok for a day or two again, however a couple of days back I saw a few of the small fish dead and the shrimps feasting on them and yesterday I saw each shrimp turning orange and dying
I have seven shrimps of which 3 have died and the remaining 4 are just huddled behind the bogwood obviously not too happy and I'd imagine they would die in the next couple of days.I checked the water stats last night and this is what I found:
Ammonia - 0.6 (strange since it was always 0 for me)
nitrite - 0.1
nitrate - 5
so it seems obviously something is wrong and perhaps the tank has gone into a cycle again, perhaps I washed the media a bit too much
I put in about 3 capfuls of 'cycle' yesterday which claims to help beneficial bacteria, hopefully that should help. The shrimp still look miserable.My 2 loaches seem to enjoy the shrimps, should I be leaving the shrimps there as a meal for them? Obviously 7 might be too many and might pollute the water so I might take out the remaining and leave one?
Any advice?
