I lost most my fish the last day. Caught the flu despite a flu shot ( I am on immune suppressants for RA and related crap and sick with flu) so I did not get around to testing the water parameters. Turns out I was dosing a fraction of the bottled BB I needed for that size tank. Yep, I need eye glasses, misread the dosing cup.
Ph 8
Ammonia 0
Nitrate between 0-5
NITRATE between .25-.5
What an idiot. Not sure I am well enough to keep fish anymore. I became confident the BB in my canister filter could handle the load after good water parameter readings the first week + . I was wrong.
Not that it matters, but how typical, sure enough, the bad weather delayed my Amazon shipment for the new adjustable heater and bottled beneficial bacteria. I should order fish and supplies in the summer. Except I am busy enjoying our short summer here in the high plains.......
I do not have enough bottled BB at the moment to get the 55 better so I got the 5 gal up and transferred the few remaining fish to the Nano tank. I added extra salt and extra stress zyme. They seem happy tonight, we will see in the morning as they were pretty rough tonight. (yes, I dosed the BB correctly this time plus added fluval ceramic hex's from the cycled canister
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Aaaaaack!