what are your water parameters??? I know the same thing used to happen on my first tank that had when the params were starting to get outta wack, but a little while after i changed the water they would be fine. (This was the fisrt tank owned since i was like 5 and it was a 30 gallon with 3 RBP's and i had no test kits or nothing, but i almost never did water changes so i am assuming the params were horrible and thats why water changes helped).