Bubba643
Aquarium Advice Freak
I've got a 60 gallon setup with two Marineland 350 biowheel filters running currently, temp 79, gravel sub.
Tank was set up Jan 3rd and I added 6-10 mixed juvenile African Chiclids under 1" , and a royal pleco about 2 week later. Fish were doing great up until about a week ago when I lost one of the smaller weaker yellow Africans.
After closely examining each of the remaining fish, I noticed one or two definitely had ich. This prompted a water test in which everything was great(high range ph 7.6, ammonia 0, nitrates 0) except for nitrites which was off the charts. I just completed my third day of water changes since the test 25% then 50% and another 50% today. Each time I test immediately after and it may have dropped but if so it's still between 2-5ppm.
I may have been over feeding previously but have cut it to once in the last three days and will continue very light feeding until resolved. Also I have dropped in zucchini for about 4 hours for the plecco and I remove leftovers.
Anything else I should do to help the Nitrite level other than continued water changes, and should I treat the ich now or wait until nitrites are down to zero. I'm thinking the ich is a result of the stress related to the Nitrite levels. How often should I change out the filter media during this correction process?
Thanks
Tank was set up Jan 3rd and I added 6-10 mixed juvenile African Chiclids under 1" , and a royal pleco about 2 week later. Fish were doing great up until about a week ago when I lost one of the smaller weaker yellow Africans.
After closely examining each of the remaining fish, I noticed one or two definitely had ich. This prompted a water test in which everything was great(high range ph 7.6, ammonia 0, nitrates 0) except for nitrites which was off the charts. I just completed my third day of water changes since the test 25% then 50% and another 50% today. Each time I test immediately after and it may have dropped but if so it's still between 2-5ppm.
I may have been over feeding previously but have cut it to once in the last three days and will continue very light feeding until resolved. Also I have dropped in zucchini for about 4 hours for the plecco and I remove leftovers.
Anything else I should do to help the Nitrite level other than continued water changes, and should I treat the ich now or wait until nitrites are down to zero. I'm thinking the ich is a result of the stress related to the Nitrite levels. How often should I change out the filter media during this correction process?
Thanks
