_Melissa_
Aquarium Advice Newbie
I have a 75g tank that was up for about 6 months and the fish were doing great then I had to move and we did a lot of research before we moved and were able to transport 3/4 of the tank water and only had down time of less than 2 hours. After 4 days of being up and running again we had a power outage while I was at work and the power was out for almost 6 hours and we lost 4 fish. We have lost fish every day since, 1-2 each day.
We went to our lfs and explained everything and they think we lost a lot of our bacteria because after the resetup we changed the filters because they were so clogged up they were overflowing our pump. They gave us some "dirty water" with their biological bacteria to put into our filter and tank (all of our fish are from this same lfs). Our ammonia is up because fish keep dying, we've done everything the lfs said to do, including adding buffer daily and not to do a water change so the bacteria can reform. But were still losing fish and I'm getting pretty upset because I feel like I'm flushing all my money down the toilet :-(
We have mostly peacocks and a few haps. We have a lemon jake which isn't looking too good right now, an insignis, tawain reef, regal peacock, albino red shoulder, mwanza, sunshine peacock, and a red empress which was our best looking fish and now has been barely hanging in there.
I'm really afraid ourtank is cycling, is there anything I can do to make them survive? Our ph hasn't budged with the daily buffer being added, its holding at 7.8. Our ammonia was up at about 2ppm and nitrates are at 10ppm. I know these readings are bad but I can't get them to change.
Please help!!
We went to our lfs and explained everything and they think we lost a lot of our bacteria because after the resetup we changed the filters because they were so clogged up they were overflowing our pump. They gave us some "dirty water" with their biological bacteria to put into our filter and tank (all of our fish are from this same lfs). Our ammonia is up because fish keep dying, we've done everything the lfs said to do, including adding buffer daily and not to do a water change so the bacteria can reform. But were still losing fish and I'm getting pretty upset because I feel like I'm flushing all my money down the toilet :-(
We have mostly peacocks and a few haps. We have a lemon jake which isn't looking too good right now, an insignis, tawain reef, regal peacock, albino red shoulder, mwanza, sunshine peacock, and a red empress which was our best looking fish and now has been barely hanging in there.
I'm really afraid ourtank is cycling, is there anything I can do to make them survive? Our ph hasn't budged with the daily buffer being added, its holding at 7.8. Our ammonia was up at about 2ppm and nitrates are at 10ppm. I know these readings are bad but I can't get them to change.
Please help!!