Fish Dying, Varying Symptoms

[HayzH]

IMO..if you left the tank with no fish in for 2 weeks then you probably lost all your bacteria on your sponges.. So now you are in a fish in cycle with a big bioload. All you can do is BIG waterchanges maybe twice a day.
IF you do lose all your fish..then i strongly suggest a fish-Less cycle, which you can read up about in the beginners section.
Your frog isnt a poisionus frog is it?

 

[otherside21]

I have just done another test- levels of No3 & No2 are both safe,

Can you give actual levels for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate, rather than "safe"? To be honest, the only safe reading is 0.

By the way, do you ever go to the 2 fish shops in Hove (one in Portland Road, opposite the school, the other in Boundary Road just up from the railway)? I keep nagging the missus to let me have a look round, but she keeps telling me that we're only in Hove to visit her parents. Tsk.

sure ok, I've just done another test- No3 is 25, no2 0, GH- 16d, KH- 6d, pH- 7.6,Cl2- 0. So although on my test it says that 25 No3 is still safe, I'm guessing this is too high. There wasn't anything of alarm from the results from my LFS. What do I need to do?

Yes, my LFS is the Portland Road one, I go there all the time & the Boundary Road one is good too, you should take a look! I guess I'm lucky my other half keeps fish too so he doesn't mind going round them lol!

IMO..if you left the tank with no fish in for 2 weeks then you probably lost all your bacteria on your sponges.. So now you are in a fish in cycle with a big bioload. All you can do is BIG waterchanges maybe twice a day.
IF you do lose all your fish..then i strongly suggest a fish-Less cycle, which you can read up about in the beginners section.
Your frog isnt a poisionus frog is it?

Hmm, ok good point. I wasn't sure what would happen. I will look at the fish-less cycle if they do all demise. Thank you. It's an african dwarf frog I think, I'm pretty sure they're not poisionus.

 

[the_lock_man]

I have just done another test- levels of No3 & No2 are both safe,

Can you give actual levels for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate, rather than "safe"? To be honest, the only safe reading is 0.

By the way, do you ever go to the 2 fish shops in Hove (one in Portland Road, opposite the school, the other in Boundary Road just up from the railway)? I keep nagging the missus to let me have a look round, but she keeps telling me that we're only in Hove to visit her parents. Tsk.

sure ok, I've just done another test- No3 is 25, no2 0, GH- 16d, KH- 6d, pH- 7.6,Cl2- 0. So although on my test it says that 25 No3 is still safe, I'm guessing this is too high. There wasn't anything of alarm from the results from my LFS. What do I need to do?

Yes, my LFS is the Portland Road one, I go there all the time & the Boundary Road one is good too, you should take a look! I guess I'm lucky my other half keeps fish too so he doesn't mind going round them lol!

IMO..if you left the tank with no fish in for 2 weeks then you probably lost all your bacteria on your sponges.. So now you are in a fish in cycle with a big bioload. All you can do is BIG waterchanges maybe twice a day.
IF you do lose all your fish..then i strongly suggest a fish-Less cycle, which you can read up about in the beginners section.
Your frog isnt a poisionus frog is it?

Hmm, ok good point. I wasn't sure what would happen. I will look at the fish-less cycle if they do all demise. Thank you. It's an african dwarf frog I think, I'm pretty sure they're not poisionus.

No, 25ppm for nitrate is perfectly safe, as is 0 for nitrite. (Having just reread my previous post, it reads COMPLETELY wrong, because nitrate is fine up to 100ppm, and higher for many species) But I think Hayley has hit the bullseye - a tank with no fish for 2 weeks will have lost its bacteria. The nitrate is a remnant from when you did have bacteria. I see there's no ammonia reading - I suggest you invest in a test kit for that, because that's what you're battling at the moment - it seems there are no bacteria converting it to nitrite yet.

Every time I drive down Boundary Road and Portland Road, I see those shops and try to think of an excuse to go in - but we're always going to visit my in-laws, who live just off Portland Road, and apparently it's rude for me to shove off down to a LFS - I don't know what the fuss is about. Never mind, I'm sure I'll win eventually - perhaps if they're the only shops in the south of England with a particular species.....

 

[otherside21]

Ok, thank you so much for your help! I'll check out my ammonia.

Good luck with getting into the fish shops lol!