Mumma.of.two
Aquarium Advice Obsessed
I am so mad right now! I NEVER return fish. I bought 6 harlequin rasboras yesterday and two died over night. I thought hey why not try and return them. So I took the fish back and a sample of my water. The 'fish expert' tested my water and says they died of ammonia poisoning! What?! Some how she got 0.5ppm of ammonia! I've just retested my tank and got 0 ammonia 0 nitrite 5 nitrate and pH of 7.6 (normal!). she said that the ammonia killed them and their gills where red from it. Someone please explain to me how 0.5ppm of ammonia can kill a fish in 12 hours? (not that my tank even had any!) she then started to lecture me that my nitrate was too high at 5ppm! Really?!?! And my ph was way too high for them! Like 7.6 is really high.
Then she proceeded to asked how much water I changed a week. I said up to 50%. 'oh thats way too much! Your washing all the bacteria out if your tank. Your taking all their food away. Their (the fish) immune system won't get built up. Changing too much water causes the tank water conditions to be unstable and it will kill fish' Has she not heard if old tank syndrome! I'd hate to see her tanks test results. They are probably filled to the brim with pH altering chemicals.
Sorry just had to vent! It's taking all my effort not to ring her with MY test results.
Grrrr!!! Still mad!!
Then she proceeded to asked how much water I changed a week. I said up to 50%. 'oh thats way too much! Your washing all the bacteria out if your tank. Your taking all their food away. Their (the fish) immune system won't get built up. Changing too much water causes the tank water conditions to be unstable and it will kill fish' Has she not heard if old tank syndrome! I'd hate to see her tanks test results. They are probably filled to the brim with pH altering chemicals.
Sorry just had to vent! It's taking all my effort not to ring her with MY test results.
Grrrr!!! Still mad!!