tropicfishman
Aquarium Advice Addict
alright heres the situation, my brother and his wife have been fish keeping fish for a few months, they are as novice as it comes, they havea 55 gallon full of mollies, guppies, platys, a bala, and all there plecos have died after 24 hours of being in the tank. they have had over 30 fish die in 5 months!!!! including 6 plecos!!!! well they still agianst my advice take there water to the LFS to have it tested, after about the 60th time, I guess the store got sick of seeing them and told them there water was fine becuase it was CLEAR!!! how ridiclous right? anyways they brought me a water samplee and with my AP test kits, here's the results
PH 7.8
ammonia 2.0 PPM !!!
Nitrates were off the charts, over 160 ppm
nitrites about 1.0 ppm
and phosphates were way off the charts
I offered my ammonia detox immediatly and they said the lfs said not to use it, but to do 10 % water changes!!! not even 50 %, so I forgot about it, well an algea bloom breaks out and they go back with a another water sample, one was tank water, one was tap, the tap showed normal results, the tank was out of control, so the LFS actually takes osme of their tap and uses START RIGHT, whihc is what my brother uses, the LFS then claims its the START RIGHT causing all the ammonia spikes and they begin removing it from the slefs, has anyone heard anything about start right doping this?
PH 7.8
ammonia 2.0 PPM !!!
Nitrates were off the charts, over 160 ppm
nitrites about 1.0 ppm
and phosphates were way off the charts
I offered my ammonia detox immediatly and they said the lfs said not to use it, but to do 10 % water changes!!! not even 50 %, so I forgot about it, well an algea bloom breaks out and they go back with a another water sample, one was tank water, one was tap, the tap showed normal results, the tank was out of control, so the LFS actually takes osme of their tap and uses START RIGHT, whihc is what my brother uses, the LFS then claims its the START RIGHT causing all the ammonia spikes and they begin removing it from the slefs, has anyone heard anything about start right doping this?