Red Fish

[mollylver]

Hello, I have one 40 gallon tank which once had 6 tetra and a pleco. The pleco died and because of my inabality to lower nitrite (although the ammonia was at zero) I had to move the tetras to a emergency 10 gallon tank. The ten gallon tank is doing well but I need to find a good fish to get rid of algea. There are no ghost fish in my town so I'm at a loss. Now I have five tetra (we think one died of old age ) and three small mollies in the 10 gallon but because of the current members in the 40 gallon, I'm afraid to move the mollies into the big tank.

I decided to get a few tiger barbs to restart the tank after cycling. I got 2 pairs from two diffrent stores. I noticed, after buying the fish, that one was slightly red. I thought that it has ammonia poisoning from a previous tank and it quickly died. I would have not been so concerned if anouther one of the barbs handn't died. Now one of the two remaining is turning slightly red and I don't know what to do. The tank has a 75 gallon bio wheel filter, a good heater, proper airation, and a few plants. I don't know what to do.


Thanks.

 

[tled6448]

I wouldn't get a pleco for a algae eater they get very large. I have one that is 18 inches long and it is 9 years old and highly aggressive. I recommend a otocinclus catfish they only get 2 inches long. I'm sorry I can't answer your other question. I hope this helped you in some way!

 

[bobross]

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What are the levels in these two tanks? exactly how high are the nitrites? From my understanding(I definitely could be wrong) with nitrates/nitrites is that it is broken down ammonia in the water. Well, it's still has ammonia in them even though it's broken down. So I would say if the nitrites are high enough, it would still be dangerous to the fish. (ammonia poisoning)

before settling on what type of aglae eating fish to get - try to see what the cause of the algae is first, as algae eaters won't completely get rid of the algae problem anyways.



BobRoss