DieselsFish
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I've had 5 fish die recently, and it's a mystery to me.
I tested my tank earlier today and it had 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 20 nitrates, a Ph of 7.6 and a temp of 74.
It's a 60 gallon community tank with molly's, angelfish, red-eye tetras, bala sharks, neon tetras, gouramis, siamese suckerfish, a couple frogs, a couple snails and a betta. It's a newer tank so the 25 fish are all pretty small. The biggest fish is probably a 3 inch bala. I have 5 real plants and a bunch of fake ones in it.
The tank has been setup for 3 months or so... it's definitely cycled. I'm using activated carbon... not sure what brand of filter, but the box said it was good enough for 60 gallons. I've only done a couple pwc's since it cycled, and I usually change about 12 gallons and vacuum about a third of the gravel.
An angelfish died a week ago, I ran all the tests and everything looked great except the Ph a little high at 7.6. Then another Angelfish died yesterday, so I ran all the tests and guessed that the Ph was too high at 7.6. I added some "Ph Down" and lowered it to 7.4. Since I lowered it this afternoon, 2 angelfish and a neon have died, and it looks like another neon is about to join his buddy.
Any ideas what could be killing them?
I tested my tank earlier today and it had 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 20 nitrates, a Ph of 7.6 and a temp of 74.
It's a 60 gallon community tank with molly's, angelfish, red-eye tetras, bala sharks, neon tetras, gouramis, siamese suckerfish, a couple frogs, a couple snails and a betta. It's a newer tank so the 25 fish are all pretty small. The biggest fish is probably a 3 inch bala. I have 5 real plants and a bunch of fake ones in it.
The tank has been setup for 3 months or so... it's definitely cycled. I'm using activated carbon... not sure what brand of filter, but the box said it was good enough for 60 gallons. I've only done a couple pwc's since it cycled, and I usually change about 12 gallons and vacuum about a third of the gravel.
An angelfish died a week ago, I ran all the tests and everything looked great except the Ph a little high at 7.6. Then another Angelfish died yesterday, so I ran all the tests and guessed that the Ph was too high at 7.6. I added some "Ph Down" and lowered it to 7.4. Since I lowered it this afternoon, 2 angelfish and a neon have died, and it looks like another neon is about to join his buddy.
Any ideas what could be killing them?
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