fishy water quality ?

SnakeIce

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I have city water that is only moderatly hard if that(I had sears check the hardness and they came up with 3 grains per gal)I don't know how that relates to gh dh and any other -h's there are.
anyway I use AquaSafe for the clorine and it is supposed to deal with the amonia released and any heavy metals.

I usually change 2 gallons in my 20 every 4 days. If it has been more than a week I change 4 gallons

now here is the question. say I havent changed water in 10 days so I do a 4 gallon change. now all the fish(list in link below) are happy, no problems. I think changing water is good, so 4 days later, back on schedule, I change 4 gallons not 2. when I change 4 in these circumstances some minor portion of my angel's fins will wilt or apear to rot.

when I change more water more often the angel apears to suffer, although none of the other fish apear affected. I thought changing water is good so what is going on here???
is my AquaSafe not doing all it says? or is there another posible explanation.

I dont see this as a big problem but just a real stumper
 
That all depends on the match between your tank water parameters (temperature, pH, KH) and the effectiveness of your chlorine/chloramine neutralizer. If there is little or no difference in the tap and tank, the fish should not react strongly, other than being a bit perkier after a change.

If there is a big difference in the two water conditions, you should do more frequent small changes until there is not a big difference.

HTH
 
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