Fish help!!

[nik_n]

All of my fish are breeding heavily and one of my panda garra died. I added an air stone to increase the oxygen levels of the tank. I just did a water change yesterday and did a water test a minute ago. Nitrates are 25ppm, Natrates are 1ppm, gh is 3° kh is 15-20 and the ph is 7.6. I don't have an ammonia test but I have read that the ammonia can cause heavy breeding. I highly doubt thats the case here as I just gravel vacuumed yesterday and I removed a ton of fish poop. I don't over feed the tank so I don't know what could cause the problem except low oxygen level. I would post a video of the fish breeding heavily but I can't post videos on the forum. Pls don'T respond on how to post the video but with advice to help.

 

[Slaphppy7]

What kind of test kit do you use?
How long has the tank been set up?
The tank isn't cycled, you need to be doing daily WC's (maybe twice a day), and you need to get an ammonia test ASAP.
Ammonia doesn't "cause heavy breeding", but it WILL cause fish losses.

 

[nik_n]

What makes you say the tank isn't cycled? The tank is in fact fully cycled. It has been running for 8 months with no casualties. The nitrites levels are normally 0 and so are the ammonia and nitrates.

I might have over reacted because all of this is happening on a Saturday night, but doesn't mean that you can assume that I have no idea what I'm doing.

 

[Slaphppy7]

I assumed nothing.
I missread, since you posted "Nitrates are 25ppm, Natrates are 1ppm"....I assumed "Natrates" was nitrItes.
There are no nitrItes in a cycled tank, unless there's an ammonia spike, which would require a WC....but you have no ammonia test, so who knows.
No harm intended, just trying to help.

 

[nik_n]

I understated. I was writing very quickly because I was in a hurry so I haven't realised my spelling mistake. I guess we all make mistakes in the heat of passion. Thanks for you help, but I figured it was just lack of oxygen. The fish are much better now. I don't know about the dead panda, its a real shame but looking back it seems to be an unrelated event.

 

[Boundava]

Nitrites are detrimental to fish at 0.25ppm; 1ppm would definitely explain the panda's death. I would recommend a large water change and getting an ammonia test. Did you clean your filter as well as doing the large gravel cleaning you mentioned above? Something might have caused your cycle to crash, it happens sometimes-that would explain the nitrites, which you wouldn't have unless you have/had ammonia.