Recent content by DieselsFish

My fish are dieing at a rate of about one every week. I have: - 60 gallon freshwater - About 40 inches of fish that are a mix of gouramis, mollys, guppies, roseline sharks, siamese suckers, angelfish and a couple others. - ph of 7.4 - nitrate 10 - nitrite 0 - ammonia 0 to .75 ppm (my tests...

I did a pwc last night and another today... All the fish seem to be happy, and no more dead ones! I let my tap water sit for 24 hours and the ph tested at 8.0. Is that ok for what I have in there?

Thanks agentm... I've got a vial of tap water sitting on my desk that I'll test tomorrow to find the real Ph.

I think I found the problem... The filter intake tube didn't come with any sort of screen or mesh to stop plants and fish from getting sucked up into it, and I lost a couple fish to it when I first set the tank up. So I MacGyvered some paper clips into a mesh screen to still let small things...

I woke up this morning to a dead red-eye and a dead neon. The neon was at the top gasping last night, the red-eye seemed fine last night. There's no spots or any sign of illness. A couple fish have frayed fins, but 90% of the fish look perfectly healthy. I haven't added any fish recently...

I've had 5 fish die recently, and it's a mystery to me. I tested my tank earlier today and it had 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 20 nitrates, a Ph of 7.6 and a temp of 74. It's a 60 gallon community tank with molly's, angelfish, red-eye tetras, bala sharks, neon tetras, gouramis, siamese suckerfish...