Hi everyone, I sure hope you can help me out!
I have a 150 gallon tank with 8 ryukins, one shubunkin and one Oranda. My shubunkin has been kind of listless for a few days, so I tested my water in what had been a perfectly cycled tank, readings of 0's across the board.
Now I'm showing .25ppm nitrites, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrates. (Using the API test kit. I checked some bottled water to make sure I wasn't getting a funky reading, which showed perfectly nitrite free.) The tank isn't planted, and is filtered by a fluval fx5, and it's been cycled and happily keeping my (poorly chosen, but live and learn and plan for more tanks!) little guys perfectly for the last 6 months.
The only thing that's changed lately is that I've dosed with aquarium salt and a Seachem product, Paraguard, this past week, as my oranda had a sore on her head, which has healed nicely now. But I've read that maybe the salt can throw my cycle out of whack.
Am I in for a heckuva lot of water changes in this huge tank? Should I dose with Seachem Prime? I'm REALLY worried about my shubunkin, and frankly ALL of them now.
Thanks in advance!
Shannon
I have a 150 gallon tank with 8 ryukins, one shubunkin and one Oranda. My shubunkin has been kind of listless for a few days, so I tested my water in what had been a perfectly cycled tank, readings of 0's across the board.
Now I'm showing .25ppm nitrites, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrates. (Using the API test kit. I checked some bottled water to make sure I wasn't getting a funky reading, which showed perfectly nitrite free.) The tank isn't planted, and is filtered by a fluval fx5, and it's been cycled and happily keeping my (poorly chosen, but live and learn and plan for more tanks!) little guys perfectly for the last 6 months.
The only thing that's changed lately is that I've dosed with aquarium salt and a Seachem product, Paraguard, this past week, as my oranda had a sore on her head, which has healed nicely now. But I've read that maybe the salt can throw my cycle out of whack.
Am I in for a heckuva lot of water changes in this huge tank? Should I dose with Seachem Prime? I'm REALLY worried about my shubunkin, and frankly ALL of them now.
Thanks in advance!
Shannon