Kubuspuchat3k
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Dec 5, 2010
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I lost a total of 10 fish, the problem is that i have no clue why.
Ammonia 0
PH 6.6
Temp was at 88
I got a little ammonia reading before doing yesterdays PWC
I spoke to a friend he said my temp is way to high so when doing a water change i adjusted my water to be around 80, I don't know if the drastic change in temp killed my fish or not.
So here is how my horror started,
On Monday i opened my FX 5 and took the carbon out and put filter floss in,
yesterday i did a 50 % PWC (standard routine every week)
Fish where acting weird checked the PH with a test kit it measured 6.0
Though it was kind low and went to a local fish store and talked to the owner about brining up the PH, he sold me ALKALINE BUFFER, and said to put a cap in a day till the PH rises up to what i would like it to be.
Everything looked good when i was going out with the wife, when i returned home at 4 in the morning 5 fish where dead, went to sleep woke up at 10 and 5 more dead.
Before all this happened i had a little problem with fin rot, i was using melafix to solve the problem.
Please give some feed back as to what went wrong
Thanks
Ammonia 0
PH 6.6
Temp was at 88
I got a little ammonia reading before doing yesterdays PWC
I spoke to a friend he said my temp is way to high so when doing a water change i adjusted my water to be around 80, I don't know if the drastic change in temp killed my fish or not.
So here is how my horror started,
On Monday i opened my FX 5 and took the carbon out and put filter floss in,
yesterday i did a 50 % PWC (standard routine every week)
Fish where acting weird checked the PH with a test kit it measured 6.0
Though it was kind low and went to a local fish store and talked to the owner about brining up the PH, he sold me ALKALINE BUFFER, and said to put a cap in a day till the PH rises up to what i would like it to be.
Everything looked good when i was going out with the wife, when i returned home at 4 in the morning 5 fish where dead, went to sleep woke up at 10 and 5 more dead.
Before all this happened i had a little problem with fin rot, i was using melafix to solve the problem.
Please give some feed back as to what went wrong
Thanks