Hello everyone, I'm new here. Unfortunately rough circumstances have sent me here to look for some answers. I have been having trouble keeping any coral alive, the only thing that's made it is my mushroom rock, and I have had 3 possibly 4 fish deaths. 2 blue hippo tangs, a wrasse, and possibly a green mandarin...haven't seen him in 2 days so I am nervous. I do weekly 20% water changes like clock work, and I tested my parameters tonight. Just got a salifert dKH test kit from a local pet store, it was unopened but the paper inside said it was from 2010. Will this cause inaccurate results? My parameters are as follows:
pH-8.2 ammonia-0 nitrite-0 nitrate-10 phosphate-0.5 calcium-500 dKH-14.4 Alkalinity-5.13
Are these numbers enough to explain the losses I have been having? I'm not sure how to lower calcium or dKH, I do not have an ro/di unit and am using well water that runs through a water softener. The nitrates are usually lower but I unfortunately had to remove a blue hippo carcass 10 minutes before I did my testing as he did not make it through the day. Yesterday he was looking great, eating everything he could and very active. I dosed "purple up" last night and this morning knew he was in trouble. Had I known my calcium was already high I wouldn't have dosed last night. It is the first time I have used that since getting some new fish a week ago. Please any answers/suggestions that you could offer would help me greatly! Thank you
pH-8.2 ammonia-0 nitrite-0 nitrate-10 phosphate-0.5 calcium-500 dKH-14.4 Alkalinity-5.13
Are these numbers enough to explain the losses I have been having? I'm not sure how to lower calcium or dKH, I do not have an ro/di unit and am using well water that runs through a water softener. The nitrates are usually lower but I unfortunately had to remove a blue hippo carcass 10 minutes before I did my testing as he did not make it through the day. Yesterday he was looking great, eating everything he could and very active. I dosed "purple up" last night and this morning knew he was in trouble. Had I known my calcium was already high I wouldn't have dosed last night. It is the first time I have used that since getting some new fish a week ago. Please any answers/suggestions that you could offer would help me greatly! Thank you
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire