I have a 90 gallon tank that I've had up and running for almost 3 months, Spent the first month with just guppy's in it to help cycle it in.
We'll we added a couple of pictus <?> catfish on Saturday afternoon and one of them went belly up by Sunday afternoon. I've been doing testing the water quality every 4-6 hours every time I add fish just to be sure that the ammonia levels don't go dangerous (Using Nutrafin testing kit it shows ammonia at .1 which is one level above none detected) the Nitrite level shows about the same level. Water temp. is a constant 78 degree's and the ph is level at 7.2.
The problem that I'm having now is that most of the tank mates not all are going from the bottom to the top and then back down to the bottom. I changed out about 20% of the water in the tank thinking maybe the ammonia levels were starting to rise but they haven't moved. Should I do another water change?
In the tank we have:
1- snow flake moray eel
4- clown loaches
5- Elephant noses
1- Pictus Catfish
1- Pecostimas <?>
3- Parrot fish
and a few guppies still in the tank that began as feeder fish about 2 1/2 months ago.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
We'll we added a couple of pictus <?> catfish on Saturday afternoon and one of them went belly up by Sunday afternoon. I've been doing testing the water quality every 4-6 hours every time I add fish just to be sure that the ammonia levels don't go dangerous (Using Nutrafin testing kit it shows ammonia at .1 which is one level above none detected) the Nitrite level shows about the same level. Water temp. is a constant 78 degree's and the ph is level at 7.2.
The problem that I'm having now is that most of the tank mates not all are going from the bottom to the top and then back down to the bottom. I changed out about 20% of the water in the tank thinking maybe the ammonia levels were starting to rise but they haven't moved. Should I do another water change?
In the tank we have:
1- snow flake moray eel
4- clown loaches
5- Elephant noses
1- Pictus Catfish
1- Pecostimas <?>
3- Parrot fish
and a few guppies still in the tank that began as feeder fish about 2 1/2 months ago.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions