One Dead Neon And A White Molly Not Looking Good.... Help

[SarahWhiting]

Just found a neon dead and my white Molly has lost his colours looking grey. Also laying at bottom tank all time not swimming with the rest.

60l tank, ph7.5 ammonia and nitrate 0, nitrite 20

50%waterchange done today

any thoughts?

 

[phoenixgsd]

nitrite is deadly especially at that high level, have a read of the link in my signature on fish in cyling as it looks like your tank isnt cycled, i reccomend you do alot of huge water changes with dechlorinated temperature matched water, you might have to do this for quite some time untill the nitrite remains at 0ppm

 

[SarahWhiting]

Sorry wrong way round nitrite is 0 and nitrate 20.... Is that still bad ?

 

[phoenixgsd]

Sorry wrong way round nitrite is 0 and nitrate 20.... Is that still bad ?

LOL no thats fine, alot make the same mistake, did you use strips or a liquid based kit?

 

[SarahWhiting]

Liquid tests. Have the Api master test kit

 

[the_lock_man]

When was the tank set up?