AgingYoungRebel
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- May 18, 2011
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A week ago today my friend and I transferred a mature vision 260 from his place to mine. We used a 50/50 split of original tank water and purified treated water I purchased from my local aquarium shop. The water used for transfer of the fish was discarded but we put the water used for plastic plants and rocks in the tank. We also removed and replaced the sand.
All was well until a couple days ago I had a massive ammonia spike, my API kit has it at 8 whereas my nutrafin has it down below 2?! I got my local shop to test it but they had an API kit but it showed as 8 also.
Regardless of the differences in kit it's obviously a critical issue. As soon as I noticed the problem Ive held food for the past 2 days and am doing a 10% PWC daily but the reading aren't changing. At the moment my nitrates and nitrites are all very very low.
Is there any other possibilities I could explore to control this issue that anyone could suggest?
Fish within the tank:-
1 Tiretrack eel
1 Freshwater eel
1 Spotted catfish
1 Leopard Pleco
3 juvenile (1inch) Oscars (2 tiger/1 albino)
1 young adult tiger Oscar (about 2.5 inches)
1 African knife fish
1 Black Ghost knife
1 parrot fish
4 large silver dollars
1 Red tailed black shark
4 pencil barbs
6 apple snails
Many many thanks.
All was well until a couple days ago I had a massive ammonia spike, my API kit has it at 8 whereas my nutrafin has it down below 2?! I got my local shop to test it but they had an API kit but it showed as 8 also.
Regardless of the differences in kit it's obviously a critical issue. As soon as I noticed the problem Ive held food for the past 2 days and am doing a 10% PWC daily but the reading aren't changing. At the moment my nitrates and nitrites are all very very low.
Is there any other possibilities I could explore to control this issue that anyone could suggest?
Fish within the tank:-
1 Tiretrack eel
1 Freshwater eel
1 Spotted catfish
1 Leopard Pleco
3 juvenile (1inch) Oscars (2 tiger/1 albino)
1 young adult tiger Oscar (about 2.5 inches)
1 African knife fish
1 Black Ghost knife
1 parrot fish
4 large silver dollars
1 Red tailed black shark
4 pencil barbs
6 apple snails
Many many thanks.