Kazza9
Aquarium Advice Newbie
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2012
- Messages
- 5
Hi everyone, Background- got a 90L tank 9 months ago and took our time stocking it (about 3mths) and performing regular tests (liquid testing kit) to make sure it cycled properly and all was good. We started with 4 balloon mollies, 1 red-tailed shark, 3 clown loaches, 2 platys, 2 goldenpanchax, 1 bristle nose, 1 feather fin catfish and a bolivian butterfly. We have a really great fish shop that have given us great advise. Everyone gets on well, there are plenty of hiding places and we have live plants n driftwood (all been boiled etc....). We feed them a mix of brine shrimp, blood worms, algae tablets, flakes with sinking tidbits, and mushy peas & zucchini. All our levels have been great, we do weekly water changes and add stress coat plus a bit of salt. we've had low pH so occasionally we put in the increaser.
First we noticed the clown loaches looking a it off colour, they had a film and gunk all on there eyes and they kept bumping into things. We asked at the shop and they gave us tri-sulphate. We followed into the letter.... And the the trouble started. The loaches were doing better, but the featherfin and the red tail shark were off. Anyway long story short, our ammonia rose to 4ppm 2 weeks ago so we started daily water changes - about 40-50% but the ammonia is only slowly going down and the pH wasnt even on the ph chart!!
We lost all the loaches, the featherfin and a Molly. The Bolivian butterfly isn't doing well either. The red tail shark looked like it came down with white spot. We started treating with ick away and then took our shark into the shop. On closer inspection it is a bacterial Infection so gave a salt bath yesterday. He is much the same today.
We don't want to lose anymore fish!! Our latest readings were 1.5ppm ammonia, pH not registering again (even though we upped it with the increaser yesterday). We're using ick away still and have gone to water changes every other day to try and let everything settle.
Has anyone had anything similar? Does anyone know if we should be doing anything different.
First we noticed the clown loaches looking a it off colour, they had a film and gunk all on there eyes and they kept bumping into things. We asked at the shop and they gave us tri-sulphate. We followed into the letter.... And the the trouble started. The loaches were doing better, but the featherfin and the red tail shark were off. Anyway long story short, our ammonia rose to 4ppm 2 weeks ago so we started daily water changes - about 40-50% but the ammonia is only slowly going down and the pH wasnt even on the ph chart!!
We lost all the loaches, the featherfin and a Molly. The Bolivian butterfly isn't doing well either. The red tail shark looked like it came down with white spot. We started treating with ick away and then took our shark into the shop. On closer inspection it is a bacterial Infection so gave a salt bath yesterday. He is much the same today.
We don't want to lose anymore fish!! Our latest readings were 1.5ppm ammonia, pH not registering again (even though we upped it with the increaser yesterday). We're using ick away still and have gone to water changes every other day to try and let everything settle.
Has anyone had anything similar? Does anyone know if we should be doing anything different.