Recent content by paige2731

no you are being realistic. I think if i had attacked it more aggressively from the very beginning it would have turned out differently. At this point there are not very many options. unless i isolate the sick ones and go from there i did call pet land and they said that it could be ammonia...

yeah it looks gross i have been doing partial water changes for days now and it does not seem to be helping here are chem results GH180 KH 240 PH not even reading the color right it looks high though NO2 is 0 NO3 is 40 so it is high again so i figure another water change and a chem treat? maybe...

haha void that last post i have one fish dead and who knows how many more infected Symptoms lack of appetite lethargic nature white hairy/fuzzy growth then death so what i am thinking is that i have a bigger problem that originally thought have i mentioned yet that i have no idea what i am...

after getting all the help from you and this site we think it was more than likely the number of fish suddenly introduced 5 fish suddenly being introduced was maybe not such a good idea thew down side we lost 5 pictus and now 3 cichlids we are still concerned for the other cichlids because some...

gotcha keep an eye out and probably avoid walmart fish in the future though I do have a bright update they were more interested in pellets usually we feed flakes

could they be sick or have gotten some kind of disease the fish we just bought are from walmart

most of them are not eating at all out of the 15 only about 6 have ate anything and yeah i agree with you on the big eaters part our daughter comments all the time that they are hungry hungry cichlids(instead of hippo) that is what is worrying me right now is because i am used to a feeding...

okay the aqua clear has a sponge a bag of carbon and what looks like bits of cork to me so that is good what about them not eating nobody even seems interested at all

no i honestly have never hear of full cycle till you mentioned it. yes we recently added fish 3 pictus and 2 blue electric cichlids the cichlids are fine we did the new addition chem treat which is 10ml per 10 us gal. our penguin filter has a bio wheel on it that i remember my husband saying...

what is a full cycle? we have now 15 cichlids and an algae eater we had 5 pictus but they all died nearly at the same time we have 2 penguin filters and an aqua clear (i think) we use fluval brand chemicals and we have had the tank a little over a year now is there any other info you need? i...

ok did the treat of course checked our number before bed still a little higher than normal this morning all but one pictus is dead cichlids are fine now and did a retest all levels are normal NO2 and NO3 are gone and while our GH is still a little high we figure it is normal for our tank thanks...

okay i read your reply and have done a 50% water change is that what wc means? any way should i do a retreat too and which one the red bottle (nitrite and ammonia ) or the blue bottle (chlorinate treat) or both thanks again you have been so helpful

yes it is measured in ppm does that help?

update a lot of the fish are swimming at the top which is unusual too. also we had a death my yellow cichlid has died

no steady at 82 i actually checked just to make sure we have well water and we usually do a change every other week and of course treat weekly this is the first time we have had this kind of reaction to a water change