Pimpintacoma
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Mar 11, 2019
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Well a year ago I took the plunge and started a 20 gallon tank with great success so stepped up to a corner tank 60 gallons. Fought hard water for a very long time with terrible success. So I went and decided to get a RO filter system and a new 1500 cascade canister filter. Did a 25% water change and used equilibrium to add the minerals back into the water. Water is clean and clear but parameters have went haywire and one panda fish has died and now it looks like all my fish are panting heavily and a few are at the top gasping. Very worried I will lose all the fish or several. They are all original from a year ago and I thought I was doing well investing in better consistent tools to get them healthy and perfect water. I have two large discuss, one medium angel fish, quite a few barbs and glow fish, algae eater, one blue lobster I haven’t seen in weeks, and a couple others. Here are the measurements I just took of the tank. Any help to save them would be very appreciated. I am a novice at adjusting parameters but willing to learn quickly and buy whatever is needed. Please help.
60 gallon tank
Brand new canister 1500 penn with all new filters
Fish are all fed once a day Tetra Color tropical granules only
Lobster gets aquatic shrimp pellets
Algae eater gets algae wafers occasionally
Water changes have never been with RO filter before but 20-25% done every 3 months.
I know spikes and changes are bad for fish so I want to do healthy water changes from now on. Anything I did or didn’t do that’s horribly wrong?
Really don’t want any more dead fish.
Current numbers
PH 6.6
Ammonia .5 PPM
Nitrite .25ppm
Nitrate 80ppm might be 40ppm but red liquid hard to tell which matches best but figure both are bad
TDS tester read 1394 PPM
Temp still remains 82.3 on TDS tester but 79.4 on in tank thermometer.
60 gallon tank
Brand new canister 1500 penn with all new filters
Fish are all fed once a day Tetra Color tropical granules only
Lobster gets aquatic shrimp pellets
Algae eater gets algae wafers occasionally
Water changes have never been with RO filter before but 20-25% done every 3 months.
I know spikes and changes are bad for fish so I want to do healthy water changes from now on. Anything I did or didn’t do that’s horribly wrong?
Really don’t want any more dead fish.
Current numbers
PH 6.6
Ammonia .5 PPM
Nitrite .25ppm
Nitrate 80ppm might be 40ppm but red liquid hard to tell which matches best but figure both are bad
TDS tester read 1394 PPM
Temp still remains 82.3 on TDS tester but 79.4 on in tank thermometer.