hello!

[JoBodude]

Hey everyone!

ok my 20gl. is STILL having problems with ammonia!
ugh!
one of my danios died last night i think it might have been dropsey...but i have the 3 other danios in there and the 2 albino cories in there and i moved the other fish into the 30gl.

i even added some gravel from the matured tank and the ammonia was still bad!
it is around 2-4
all the fish seem fine though uhhhh...?

anything you know i can do?

ALSO:
when the tank stables for a while i am gunna have:
6 neons
6 danios
4 cories
...can i add 2 pearl gouramies?

cool! heehee

thanks!

~JoBodude~

 

[SnowyzMom]

I only have a couple of probably not so brilliant thoughts. One, are you running a regular schedule of 25-50% water changes to dilute all this ammonia? Two, do you have any live plants in there? They seem to help stabilize alot. I am presuming you are siphoning/cleaning the gravel etc. regularly. Now don't get mad at me, these are probably all really obvious, well I already DID that questions.....but my brain only seems to be working on 2 out of 6 cylinders tonight and I AM over 50.... so it takes me awhile to be intelligent.

I am wondering if putting a product like Easy Balance by Aqua Safe into the water would help stabilize everything? I don't for a second believe it eliminates water changes for 6 months like it says it does! however SnowyAngel has found it helped settle her water pretty fast. How new is this tank? Can the fish be put anywhere else and the fishless cycling system tried, which is permanently posted on the Forums here?

Anyways good luck, it's soooo distressing to have fish die!

 

[JoBodude]

pearl gouramies?
good idea?
bad idea?

(remember i wouldnt add them till the tank is stable)

 

[TorPeteO]

I don't know about the pearl gouramis, sorry.

One thing you can add is any product that will neutralize ammonia and nitrites (I don't know if Nitrites are a problem, but they may become one once you solve your ammonia problem). While this would only be a temporary solution, it detoxifies ammonia (one example is AmmoLock, I think) and allows you to have more time to address the problem. The 'locked' ammonia (which has become ammonium, I believe) is removed via water changes.

This solution will not work in the long-term, however. It is only a band-aid for a bullet wound, fully established bacterial colonies are the only way to truly keep parameters healthy (as you undoubtedly know).

Hope this helped, good luck.