nurglespuss
Fish Gatherer
Hi all,
OK, I have a 106L aquarium which was fairly recently setup,
it was an upgrade from my 17L aquarium (which had 2 Eheim HOBs running on it) and was well matured.
I set up the new tank originally with the HOBs running at either end of the tank until my new external arrived (JBL e700), When I set this up I added the mature sponges from the HOB filters to the external.
The tank also has a Koralina power head at one end, and a venturi running power head at the other (so plenty of circulatation and aeration).
There was a slight blip in ammonia near the start (from 0 up to 0.25ppm) but this was sorted with a water change and som stresszyme, all tests since then have been 0 (in fact last test readings are in my sig).
Now however, I came home to find 3 neons and one corydoras dead, and my pitbull covered in whitespot (a very small version that you have to be close to see) and some other fish flicking.
I immediatly did an 80% water change, and treated with anti whitespot, also as a precaution, I took a sample of the old water and tested it, ammonia is now 1PPM!
This is the first time I've had white spot for a very, very long time, but I have no problems treating it, however, if (as I suspect the answer may be) my filter bacteria have somehow crashed I have a quandry...
I need to perform daily water changes to keep the ammonia down, but have to leave the white spot treatment in for 4 days...
The only thing I can think of that may have disturbed the bacteria, was adding some filter wool to remove particulates...
What would you guys do/recommend?
(0h and nitrite is still 0, nitrate up slightly to 0.1)
Thanks.
OK, I have a 106L aquarium which was fairly recently setup,
it was an upgrade from my 17L aquarium (which had 2 Eheim HOBs running on it) and was well matured.
I set up the new tank originally with the HOBs running at either end of the tank until my new external arrived (JBL e700), When I set this up I added the mature sponges from the HOB filters to the external.
The tank also has a Koralina power head at one end, and a venturi running power head at the other (so plenty of circulatation and aeration).
There was a slight blip in ammonia near the start (from 0 up to 0.25ppm) but this was sorted with a water change and som stresszyme, all tests since then have been 0 (in fact last test readings are in my sig).
Now however, I came home to find 3 neons and one corydoras dead, and my pitbull covered in whitespot (a very small version that you have to be close to see) and some other fish flicking.
I immediatly did an 80% water change, and treated with anti whitespot, also as a precaution, I took a sample of the old water and tested it, ammonia is now 1PPM!
This is the first time I've had white spot for a very, very long time, but I have no problems treating it, however, if (as I suspect the answer may be) my filter bacteria have somehow crashed I have a quandry...
I need to perform daily water changes to keep the ammonia down, but have to leave the white spot treatment in for 4 days...
The only thing I can think of that may have disturbed the bacteria, was adding some filter wool to remove particulates...
What would you guys do/recommend?
(0h and nitrite is still 0, nitrate up slightly to 0.1)
Thanks.