Hi folks -can anyone help a newcomer

G

glennmarch

Registered Member
Jul 26, 2008
3
0
0
Leicestershire
Hi folks.

I'm Glenn living in Leicestershire UK and have just found this site.

I got a new Fluval 125 litre tank 7 weeks ago. I have a sand substrate with vaious live plants and wood decoration.

I have been using Hagen test kits and so far the levels have constantly recorded the following figures with no change

Ammonia 0.1
Nitrite 0.1
Nitrate 5.0
Phosphate 0.25
pH 7.6
dGH 13.44

I had gradually built up to 10 Neon Tetras, 6 Black Neons, 6 Platys, and 6 harlequins. They seemed to be OK until last week when the Platys started to die. Last weekend i did a water change and then noticed that one of the Neon Tetras had whitespot. I did put some treatment in for that as dictated on the bottle (Protozin). Since then i have lost all the neon tetras and am currently left with just 2 Platys, 4 Black Neons and 3 arlequins.
This afternoon one of the remaining harlequins seeme to be having difficulty swimming and has since completely dissapeared. I have taken out the wood to give me a better chance of find it - to no avail, but dont want to remove the plants if possible as they are just taking root nicely.

Can anyone give me any advice what to do? I dont really want a rotting dead fish in the tank if i can help it.

Thanks:help:
 
Hello, welcome to AC! I would recommend making a new post in the freshwater section of the forum. I am sure that you will get more help. In the mean time, i would recommend doing water changes as necessary to keep your ammonia and nitrite as low as possible until your cycle completes. Best of luck!
 
Hi Glenn,

You'll get more traffic and likely help if you repost this in one of the Freshwater Topics fora. :idea:

One thing I'd recommend is, if you can't find the corpse (may well have been eaten by now), start doing daily large water changes to bring the ammonia under control.
 
Welcome to AC!

Copy your post and start a thread in General Freswater Forum for more response.

You need to keep up the water changes until the ammonia and nitrites read less than .25 ppm. What is the ammonia reading on your tap? Do you use a dechlorinator?
 
:welcome: to AC! As the others said, post in the FW section for more help and water changes, water changes, water changes.
 
Hello..............:welcome:
 
:welcome: to the forum!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
AquariaCentral.com
Top Bottom