I have a new tank, not yet cycled, and my cory cats are dropping like flies. I ended up with two apple snails, three ghost shrimp, a powder blue dwarf gourami, and one black skirt tetra after a family member had a bad experience with fish keeping...
So I set up a 29 gallon that I had in my garage and rehomed the fish. Not my method of choice but really my only choice. I took some of the filter media from my planted 55 gallon that is well established and happy and put that into the 29 gallon filter. I have been checking the water twice a day and so far no big spikes in ammonia or nitrite.
I have been doing water changes as soon as the ammonia reaches 0.5 ppm.
Everything was doing fine for a week except the tetra was hiding all the time and there was left over food on the bottom. So I went to Petco yesterday and picked up 4 black skirt tetras and 4 emerald cory cats.
This morning the water was 0.25 ammonia, 0 nitite, 0 nitrate.
Everyone ate and acted normal, except two of the cory cats were dead and their tails were gone... So I took them back to the pet store and got two more this afternoon.
I just checked on them and another one is dead! Looks completely normal though (thinking the shrimp may have eaten the tails off of the other ones after they died).
This is the first aquarium I have ever set up that I used aquarium sand in. I am wondering if it could possible be something in the sand since it only appears to be effecting the cat fish?
Any suggestions? At this point I am thinking about taking the sand out tomorrow and replacing it with some gravel I have...
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So I set up a 29 gallon that I had in my garage and rehomed the fish. Not my method of choice but really my only choice. I took some of the filter media from my planted 55 gallon that is well established and happy and put that into the 29 gallon filter. I have been checking the water twice a day and so far no big spikes in ammonia or nitrite.
I have been doing water changes as soon as the ammonia reaches 0.5 ppm.
Everything was doing fine for a week except the tetra was hiding all the time and there was left over food on the bottom. So I went to Petco yesterday and picked up 4 black skirt tetras and 4 emerald cory cats.
This morning the water was 0.25 ammonia, 0 nitite, 0 nitrate.
Everyone ate and acted normal, except two of the cory cats were dead and their tails were gone... So I took them back to the pet store and got two more this afternoon.
I just checked on them and another one is dead! Looks completely normal though (thinking the shrimp may have eaten the tails off of the other ones after they died).
This is the first aquarium I have ever set up that I used aquarium sand in. I am wondering if it could possible be something in the sand since it only appears to be effecting the cat fish?
Any suggestions? At this point I am thinking about taking the sand out tomorrow and replacing it with some gravel I have...
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