I'll keep researching it and I will deff try the peas then worry about eggs if nothing works. But I just realized that I have been putting a piece of cucumber in the tank everyday for a week or so cause my crawfish is eating all my plants. Do tiger barbs eat this also?
Tiger Barb Holding Eggs ?
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Mumma.of.two
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Try the pea and fasting first then I think the next thing to look into would be internal parasites, then infection.
A dense planted area. Preferably middle to top level plants. The thicker the vegetation, the safer the bearer feels, and the more protection the newly hatched fry will have.
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bruinsbro1997
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Do you know your levels of ammonia, nitrites, nitrates yet?
Ick can still enter the system if you didn't wipe it out completely, which might be the case. How did you treat the ick before?
Ick can still enter the system if you didn't wipe it out completely, which might be the case. How did you treat the ick before?
Mumma.of.two
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Bates1990 said:
Ok by that your nitrates are too high. You need to keep them below 20ppm. The lower the better. Immediate large PWC to bring them down. Poor water quality lead to stress and disease.
Mumma.of.two
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Bates1990 said:
Yes plants will help out but the only way to remove nitrates is through water changes. They will keep building up until you remove and replace some water then it will start again.
Why are you using purified water? As in RO/DI? It doesn't contain any buffers/minerals. Just use your tap water and prime. Dosing prime to a tank isn't going to make the nitrates disappear.
You need to be changing at least 25-30% of your water weekly. More if your nitrates don't stay low enough.
I have a 55 gallon tank and I change 10 gallons every two weeks but I will start doing it every week. And the reason I use purified water is because I live in the country and my water is poor quality what about spring water or do you think I should use tap water anyways? Also I use prime to just detox nitrates for a day or two is this correct?
Mumma.of.two
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Bates1990 said:
Try doing 20gal every week.
Spring water would work. It's still contains minerals. I don't know about your tap water. Do you know why its classed poor quality? Prime will bind any heavy metals and neutralize any chlorine or chloramine it may have. it should be fine to use. The best thing to do is a water change to remove nitrates. Dosing prime supposedly works but by doing that your not really removing them your just adding unnecessarily high amounts of prime. Doing water changes is an essential for tanks. Not only does it remove nitrate build up but dissolved solids (fish poop) and replenishes minerals needed for fish and plants.
Mumma.of.two
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Bates1990 said:
The prime should take care of all the chemicals in your tap water. Do you have a gravel vac? Use that to suck gunk from your gravel/sand on the bottom of you tank. Too much contributes to nitrate build up.
