Ok yesterday we were cleaning some other tanks when fairly suddendly my 50 gallon tank turned cloudy. I immediately saw one YoYo loach die, about an hour later, my friend found the second YoYo loach dead and it really smelled - it was alive just an hour before. The water is getting more cloudy. Ammonia reads OVER 7, everything else is zero PH is 6.8. I found some AmGuard to neutralize the ammonia and it may be working but it will likely only last 48 hours - I'm not to keen on water change of a 50 gallon tank (I'm on oxygen - this will be hard for me) and my assistant is at her regular job today.
The snails are behaving funny - they are in a ring around the top edges of the tank. My Dojo's eat a LOT of snails - so I removed them. New ones are back again this morning.
What alerted me besides the massive cloudiness was that the water was HOT. It was set on 80 but this was more like 90. This is a $100 heater/temperature gauge combined - obviously broken. Turned the heat down to 75 and this morning it was FREEZING - so I turned it back up to 80 = I'll check it again later.
The only way to clear an Ammonia spike that I know of is by doing a water change. But the internet info says Bacteria blooms usually increase the nitrites too - and those are zero.
Getting ready to teat my City water incase the river had a bacterial bloom as well - I haven't heard any announcements to boil water or anything but it's been VERY VERY HOT. I'll test the other aquariums quickly too - I feel the need to get that water out of the tank. I know that the Dojos are still alive but the rest are all very large Gourami's - that's why they are in a tank by themselves. Trying to decide if I should move fish to another tank but I have some very tiny fish in the other two tanks that might get eaten by the more aggressive Gourami's. They are 5-8" in size and I have a bunch of new rasbdora in one tank and baby tetra's in the other tank - Also hard to catch what you cant see.
the online manuals say to change no more than 20% of the water and then start removing debris - but this tank was spotless before this happened - except for snail shells because the Dojo's eat so many snails. I have NO FEEDING problem from regular food in this tank so that didn't cause the bloom.
Could just a bizarre ammonia stike cause all this
ADVICE?
The snails are behaving funny - they are in a ring around the top edges of the tank. My Dojo's eat a LOT of snails - so I removed them. New ones are back again this morning.
What alerted me besides the massive cloudiness was that the water was HOT. It was set on 80 but this was more like 90. This is a $100 heater/temperature gauge combined - obviously broken. Turned the heat down to 75 and this morning it was FREEZING - so I turned it back up to 80 = I'll check it again later.
The only way to clear an Ammonia spike that I know of is by doing a water change. But the internet info says Bacteria blooms usually increase the nitrites too - and those are zero.
Getting ready to teat my City water incase the river had a bacterial bloom as well - I haven't heard any announcements to boil water or anything but it's been VERY VERY HOT. I'll test the other aquariums quickly too - I feel the need to get that water out of the tank. I know that the Dojos are still alive but the rest are all very large Gourami's - that's why they are in a tank by themselves. Trying to decide if I should move fish to another tank but I have some very tiny fish in the other two tanks that might get eaten by the more aggressive Gourami's. They are 5-8" in size and I have a bunch of new rasbdora in one tank and baby tetra's in the other tank - Also hard to catch what you cant see.
the online manuals say to change no more than 20% of the water and then start removing debris - but this tank was spotless before this happened - except for snail shells because the Dojo's eat so many snails. I have NO FEEDING problem from regular food in this tank so that didn't cause the bloom.
Could just a bizarre ammonia stike cause all this
ADVICE?