iihay
Fish Fanatic
Hi,
I got home from work to find out my wife had dropped a whole tub of flakes accidentally into our 49l tank, I was not happy but it's our wedding anniversary so I just said "Oh dear never mind"!
The tank is cycling with fish in (got here too late to find out about fishless). Been going for 3 weeks with nitrite, nitrate, ammonia all less than 0.25, pH 7.1, it has 4 platys, 2 dwarf gourami and a female betta. I have just changed about 60% of the water using a gravel vac to try and get as much food out as possible. Any advice on how I should continue sorting this out. Is a change of this size too much every day? There is still a lot of food in the gravel substrate to get out and I expect this will ammonia spike badly with all that rotting food. I have some prime, should I get some of that in to complex any ammonia out as it forms or just test very frequently?
Thanks
Iain
I got home from work to find out my wife had dropped a whole tub of flakes accidentally into our 49l tank, I was not happy but it's our wedding anniversary so I just said "Oh dear never mind"!
The tank is cycling with fish in (got here too late to find out about fishless). Been going for 3 weeks with nitrite, nitrate, ammonia all less than 0.25, pH 7.1, it has 4 platys, 2 dwarf gourami and a female betta. I have just changed about 60% of the water using a gravel vac to try and get as much food out as possible. Any advice on how I should continue sorting this out. Is a change of this size too much every day? There is still a lot of food in the gravel substrate to get out and I expect this will ammonia spike badly with all that rotting food. I have some prime, should I get some of that in to complex any ammonia out as it forms or just test very frequently?
Thanks
Iain