I've never really though about testing my tank!
Until recently I have bought 3 lots of fish from the same store,
1st lot resulted in tank of white spot and a half dead tank, (I had 2 clown loach in the tank at the time which were healthy and I would have thought if white spot was high in my tank the clown loach would have been an easy target as the'ye sensitive fish)
2nd lot, i got a months later (2 mollys) and they were fine no problems,
Now a month later I have gotten a new plec due to my other one getting too big for my tank, few days later white spot! Which killed off the two I recently brought but all my others didn't catch the disease. The plec however is fine (I know these are hardy fish)
So I was speaking to a friend and have tested my tank,
Amonia - 0
Nitrate - 250
Nitrite - 0.5
GH - 250
KH - 50 mg/l
PH - 6.4
I have been trying to gather some info and sounds like I have old tank syndrome, and need to do some water changed every other day, to get the tank back to normal, does anyone have any advice about this? As I have never really thought about it before (bad I know) but will be doing regular water tests from now on!
But now another question, by adding a plec to my tank and then having white spot on 2 other fish that had already been in the tank a month and were find and healthy and active, did they contract it from the plec, or my water?
I've heard multiple horror stories from this pet store now and won't be buying from there again and will be considering a quarantine tank!
Until recently I have bought 3 lots of fish from the same store,
1st lot resulted in tank of white spot and a half dead tank, (I had 2 clown loach in the tank at the time which were healthy and I would have thought if white spot was high in my tank the clown loach would have been an easy target as the'ye sensitive fish)
2nd lot, i got a months later (2 mollys) and they were fine no problems,
Now a month later I have gotten a new plec due to my other one getting too big for my tank, few days later white spot! Which killed off the two I recently brought but all my others didn't catch the disease. The plec however is fine (I know these are hardy fish)
So I was speaking to a friend and have tested my tank,
Amonia - 0
Nitrate - 250
Nitrite - 0.5
GH - 250
KH - 50 mg/l
PH - 6.4
I have been trying to gather some info and sounds like I have old tank syndrome, and need to do some water changed every other day, to get the tank back to normal, does anyone have any advice about this? As I have never really thought about it before (bad I know) but will be doing regular water tests from now on!
But now another question, by adding a plec to my tank and then having white spot on 2 other fish that had already been in the tank a month and were find and healthy and active, did they contract it from the plec, or my water?
I've heard multiple horror stories from this pet store now and won't be buying from there again and will be considering a quarantine tank!