I have had a really bad couple of days. I lost 5 fish in 48hours.
My tanks has been up about 4 months now and has been doing really great.
I have been having recent issues with 40ppm Nirates for the past 3 weeks so I have been doing weekly 30% water changes plus bottom cleanings bringing it back down to the 10-15ppm range each week. All my other water chems are perfect except PH keeps dropping into the 8.0-7.9 range during each week between water changes. Afterwards the water change its around 8.2.
I recently decided to change out 50% of my bio balls with Seachem's Matrix to help improve my bio filter capacity. My remaining bio-balls were doing the bulk of the filtering. The ones I replaced with matrix were newer and showed no bio-filtering slim on them at all.
I tested my water chems today (Friday) and all my chems were good except for 15-20ppm nitrates and ph at 7.88. Plan to do another 30% water change Saturday.
I have lost my pink anthias, two clown fish, a red ruby, and a horse face blemmy in the past three days. My other fish a yellow tang, 3 blue chromis and one blue damsel plus a six line wrasse are all doing fine for now.
I see no sign of diseases or stress on any of my fish. One minute they are fine the next morning I find them floating in the corner!!
All my corals are doing fine except I had a tentacle plate that was great yesterday and now it looks like it was run over by a bus.....
Really don't thing the 20ppm Nirate levels are causing this but can't find anything else to blame right now.
Looking for ideas and advice.
Regards,
Tim
My tanks has been up about 4 months now and has been doing really great.
I have been having recent issues with 40ppm Nirates for the past 3 weeks so I have been doing weekly 30% water changes plus bottom cleanings bringing it back down to the 10-15ppm range each week. All my other water chems are perfect except PH keeps dropping into the 8.0-7.9 range during each week between water changes. Afterwards the water change its around 8.2.
I recently decided to change out 50% of my bio balls with Seachem's Matrix to help improve my bio filter capacity. My remaining bio-balls were doing the bulk of the filtering. The ones I replaced with matrix were newer and showed no bio-filtering slim on them at all.
I tested my water chems today (Friday) and all my chems were good except for 15-20ppm nitrates and ph at 7.88. Plan to do another 30% water change Saturday.
I have lost my pink anthias, two clown fish, a red ruby, and a horse face blemmy in the past three days. My other fish a yellow tang, 3 blue chromis and one blue damsel plus a six line wrasse are all doing fine for now.
I see no sign of diseases or stress on any of my fish. One minute they are fine the next morning I find them floating in the corner!!
All my corals are doing fine except I had a tentacle plate that was great yesterday and now it looks like it was run over by a bus.....
Really don't thing the 20ppm Nirate levels are causing this but can't find anything else to blame right now.
Looking for ideas and advice.
Regards,
Tim
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