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Ok well this will really puzzle you... The fish was laying on the bottom of the tank, hardly breathing, falling to one side. I gave it an hour before I had to flush him to fishy heaven :( I added a pinch of food and next minute he is darting around the tank eating! :blink: After feeding he...

very confused as the link above takes me to my thread I created? How strange! Lets try again: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f17/recently-added-6-silver-dollars-300968.html

Haha, I know what you mean :) http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f17/recently-added-6-silver-dollars-300968.html#post2863274 Above issue if you have any thoughts?

UPDATE: 2 of them are much better today. 1 of them seems to be swimming better, but is skimming the bottom of the substrate while swimming around rather than floating up. Feeding well on Flake still. Tried some Peas but they were untouched.

I recently added 6 Silver Dollars to my newly cycled tank. Amm 0 Nitri 0 Nitrates 40PPM (Bringing them down daily) PH 8.0 Temp 26C 3 out of the 6 have developed behavior that may seem like swim bladder issues. Basically they are swimming head down (to stop them floating to the top)...

Good news people. My tank cycled after my last post! I then went to add 6 silver dollars, which went in fine but I am having some issues already which I will start a new thread now on.

Thanks a lot, that makes sense. I've just done a check and nitrite is 0.25. I've just added 1ppm of ammonia and if it's 0.25 or less tomorrow I will do a water change and slowly stock it. It's obviously removing nitrites slowly. Should be able to keep up with a couple of fish?

Isn't the Ammonia needed to help create the bacteria that removes Nitrites though? I skipped adding Ammonia last night to see if the Nitrite is falling, which i will check later today. I will dose up 2PPM again tonight and hopefully soon it will be at 0. Nitrite is definitely falling slowly I...

Still adding 2PPM of Ammonia every 24 hours. Nitrites still over 5PPM and Nitrates at 40PPM. No change still, been 4 weeks + with Nitrites now

Still adding 2PPM of Ammonia every 24 hours. Nitrites still over 5PPM and Nitrates at 40PPM. No change still, been 4 weeks + with Nitrites now

I am just going to wait it out, hopefully the Nitrite will go to 0 overnight, Sick of seeing Purple now!!! :lol:

Thanks guys and girls :) I will keep you all updated.

Sorry, it was about the 3rd water change I have done. Nitrates at one point was over 160PPM. I do have some live plants in there. Nitrates is now up to 40PPM as the above post will outline :)

Hello again. It was the Nitrites that were my concern. Basically Nitrites got to a stage where they were 0, but they came back after a large water change. Here is an update: I did a 95% water change and did a test straight after (about an hour) just out of curiosity and Nitrites were still...

The sand is only 3 months old, and there has been no waste from fish because there isn't any. But I will do this just to put my mind at rest. The water change was done 3 days ago. Tests today show Nitrite off the chart.