hello and please help!
I have had tanks all my life and decided to joint the world of hi-tech heavily planted tanks. I set up a 40 breeder with sump that has tons of bio media and the florite from my 29 gal (which is now the sump) from there it goes through a 125 sqft cartidge filter. I have 6 or so amano shrimp a small herd of cherry shrimp ,5 oto's, 1 SAE, 4 panda garra's, and to round it off i really wanted cpd's, after month's my LFS got some in. I bought 22. small fish big tank. I did a large water change before adding them to closely match the water they were coming from. I even used the same water they use in their tanks. did a slow drip for 6 hrs to acclimate them. All seemed fine for a week. I did a 5 gall water change using the same "plant water'' which is about 10% or a lil less,I usually do about 10% every other day. I lost 6 by morning! the day after i lost 3 more. and now on average i lose 1 every day. I have 2 left and a little heart broken and little more broke! and scared to do water changes
Water:
gh 10
kh 6
ph 7.2 now was down to 6.9
amm 0 nitrates 0 nitrites are trace and so is phos
I dose with pferts phos, and nitrogen sparingly i have ada aqua soil for the plants, Also dose with leaf for micros and potassium
Any help is appreciated
I have had tanks all my life and decided to joint the world of hi-tech heavily planted tanks. I set up a 40 breeder with sump that has tons of bio media and the florite from my 29 gal (which is now the sump) from there it goes through a 125 sqft cartidge filter. I have 6 or so amano shrimp a small herd of cherry shrimp ,5 oto's, 1 SAE, 4 panda garra's, and to round it off i really wanted cpd's, after month's my LFS got some in. I bought 22. small fish big tank. I did a large water change before adding them to closely match the water they were coming from. I even used the same water they use in their tanks. did a slow drip for 6 hrs to acclimate them. All seemed fine for a week. I did a 5 gall water change using the same "plant water'' which is about 10% or a lil less,I usually do about 10% every other day. I lost 6 by morning! the day after i lost 3 more. and now on average i lose 1 every day. I have 2 left and a little heart broken and little more broke! and scared to do water changes
Water:
gh 10
kh 6
ph 7.2 now was down to 6.9
amm 0 nitrates 0 nitrites are trace and so is phos
I dose with pferts phos, and nitrogen sparingly i have ada aqua soil for the plants, Also dose with leaf for micros and potassium
Any help is appreciated