TrainRek77
Fish Fanatic
I've had a bit of a disaster. I came home three days ago and my aquarium was very cloudy, white. I immediately thought it was due to a bacterial bloom so I cleaned the aquarium very thoroughly, did a 20 percent water change. In about 3 hours the cloudiness was almost gone. The next day I did another 20 percent water change and realized my diy co2 system was pumping solution through my separator and into my tank. I didn't think that both bottle may tip over and my separator is made of the same size bottle as one of my two yeast bottles. I lost one fish yesterday, an older blue ram. A white film developed on my glass. I cleaned it all off. Right around 2 cups of solution made it into my 29 gallon tank....
Today, I came home and the water was cloudy again. I've been checking my water perimeters morning and night and they have all been typical. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, less than 10ppm nitrate (lower than usual due to the water changes) and a ph of about 7.0. Tonight I noticed a little under .25 ppm ammonia and the cloudiness returned slightly. I did a little over a 50 percent water change and cleaned my filters. They had a crazy amount of sludge on them that felt really odd. I clean them weekly and as normal maintenance vacuum and do a 20 percent change twice a week.
I feel bad that I've given my fish a poor habitat and wish that I had another aquarium to put them in or a friend that can take care of them until I get this sorted out but that is not an option. The only people I know that keep aquariums are the guys at the store and the people on this forum.
If anyone has any ideas on how I can make my fish more comfortable and what I might expect the result of this disaster to be I will be grateful to hear them. Please be constructive though, I feel real bad about my neglect.
Today, I came home and the water was cloudy again. I've been checking my water perimeters morning and night and they have all been typical. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, less than 10ppm nitrate (lower than usual due to the water changes) and a ph of about 7.0. Tonight I noticed a little under .25 ppm ammonia and the cloudiness returned slightly. I did a little over a 50 percent water change and cleaned my filters. They had a crazy amount of sludge on them that felt really odd. I clean them weekly and as normal maintenance vacuum and do a 20 percent change twice a week.
I feel bad that I've given my fish a poor habitat and wish that I had another aquarium to put them in or a friend that can take care of them until I get this sorted out but that is not an option. The only people I know that keep aquariums are the guys at the store and the people on this forum.
If anyone has any ideas on how I can make my fish more comfortable and what I might expect the result of this disaster to be I will be grateful to hear them. Please be constructive though, I feel real bad about my neglect.
sorry about your loss. Those blue rams are gorgeous. All I can really think of is finding a tank in an lfs that could possibly store your fish for a while. Just make sure the tank works well enough and that you trust your lfs to not sell the fish.
