Fish Breathing Hard
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I used an old gravel vac made a small hole on the closed end so I could put tubing through the hold and attached a ceramic airstone on the other end....and attached it to the outlet of my xp3 so water churns the co2 in the tube before it is let out
I would stop the Excel, and do a water change. Looks like you have a reactor going using your canister filter. If you can disable that during the night, it should reduce the CO2 in the water at night.
Well I took it off completely last night and have not dosed any excel since I have done the water change ....Well I dosed the recommended amount of excel after a large water change but have not dosed since....about 3 days
How are the fish doing now without CO2 and Excel? I'd imagine that with an air-stone, the fish would be doing much better. If they are, you can slowly increase the CO2 again. Did you change CO2 mixtures lately? If you put too much yeast in the container, you could have a burst of CO2 production in a short amount of time.
Do you have any surface movement? oftentimes people with "glass tops" to prevent CO2 loss from surface agitation runs into this issue where not enough O2 is absorbed into the water. It's not excess CO2, just lack of O2.
Excel is quite toxic, but at the recommended dosage or slight overdosage doesn't appear to harm fishes. People have reported 3x overdosing with no ill effects but 10x might kill.
Excel is quite toxic, but at the recommended dosage or slight overdosage doesn't appear to harm fishes. People have reported 3x overdosing with no ill effects but 10x might kill.
Add some surface movement, a slight ripple is enough. Your tank is not absorbing enough O2 and when plants stop producing O2 during the night the fishes suffer.
Thats what I kind of thought but was not sure.....So nothing drastic just small ripples right? My tank is pretty heavily planted...
