Amazonian13
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hi there, need some urgent help. I just moved to new house and due to time constraints broke the golden rule of cycling. I had a 90 gallon with:
8 inch Peacock Ocellaris
8 Inch Flagtail Prochilodus
6 Inch Hi-Fin Wolfish
6 Inch Peacock Mono
9 Inch Tapajos Red Pike Cichlid Male
8 Inch Tapajos Red Pike Cichlid Female
6 Inch Tigrinus Catfish.
As said moved to new house and got a 150 gallon. I have always been ignorant of cycling and done bare minimum as never have had any issues over the years and cycled my 90 gallon after 2 days and never had any issues always add all the starter chemicals and stress coat etc. Anyway I set up the 150 gallon and let it cycle for 3 days. I had to get fish from other place and the ammonia had spiked on day 1.5, but last night was at 0 ppm and all other readings were ideal so I thought I was all good. Woke up this morning to my prize beautiful tigrinus dead as a doornail but untouched. QUickly took readings and ammonia had spiked to 8.00 ppm and Nitrate No2- at .25 ppm. Began dosing with ammolock, but no the readings still show up same so got no relief and fish seemed to be doing bad. I immediately did a 25 % water change and after two hours ammonia had dropped to 4.0 ppm so felt better and thought it would keep dropping. Came home hours later and my large 8 inch bass is clinging to the top of the tank gasping for air and all fish are gasping looking awful. Did another 25% change, but levels all read the same. Freaking out now as Bass looks awful and the female pike cichlid is looking very rough. Have no idea best thing to do. Switched from the bio wheels to all fluvals in this have a Fx5 and a 405 and thought with three days of that power it would be all good. Killing myself right now for breaking golden rule, but measured my tap with stress coat in it and it reads amonnia 0-.25 ppm so just did a 50 % change again now and bass is looking slightly better but not great. ANy ideas? am i completely screwed? lots of expensive fish that I love and have had a good while now. Is best thing just keep every hour or because it didnt cycle long enough is it just going to spike and spike and spike until there is enough bio filter built up? Any ideas? I have lots of ammolock, but worried of now overmedicating the water. Please any help I would appreciate. I can get a 75 and set it up with the old bio wheels to quarantine a few maybe? but really no other tanks on me. ANyway any help appreciated im miserable watching my fish suffer right now....
8 inch Peacock Ocellaris
8 Inch Flagtail Prochilodus
6 Inch Hi-Fin Wolfish
6 Inch Peacock Mono
9 Inch Tapajos Red Pike Cichlid Male
8 Inch Tapajos Red Pike Cichlid Female
6 Inch Tigrinus Catfish.
As said moved to new house and got a 150 gallon. I have always been ignorant of cycling and done bare minimum as never have had any issues over the years and cycled my 90 gallon after 2 days and never had any issues always add all the starter chemicals and stress coat etc. Anyway I set up the 150 gallon and let it cycle for 3 days. I had to get fish from other place and the ammonia had spiked on day 1.5, but last night was at 0 ppm and all other readings were ideal so I thought I was all good. Woke up this morning to my prize beautiful tigrinus dead as a doornail but untouched. QUickly took readings and ammonia had spiked to 8.00 ppm and Nitrate No2- at .25 ppm. Began dosing with ammolock, but no the readings still show up same so got no relief and fish seemed to be doing bad. I immediately did a 25 % water change and after two hours ammonia had dropped to 4.0 ppm so felt better and thought it would keep dropping. Came home hours later and my large 8 inch bass is clinging to the top of the tank gasping for air and all fish are gasping looking awful. Did another 25% change, but levels all read the same. Freaking out now as Bass looks awful and the female pike cichlid is looking very rough. Have no idea best thing to do. Switched from the bio wheels to all fluvals in this have a Fx5 and a 405 and thought with three days of that power it would be all good. Killing myself right now for breaking golden rule, but measured my tap with stress coat in it and it reads amonnia 0-.25 ppm so just did a 50 % change again now and bass is looking slightly better but not great. ANy ideas? am i completely screwed? lots of expensive fish that I love and have had a good while now. Is best thing just keep every hour or because it didnt cycle long enough is it just going to spike and spike and spike until there is enough bio filter built up? Any ideas? I have lots of ammolock, but worried of now overmedicating the water. Please any help I would appreciate. I can get a 75 and set it up with the old bio wheels to quarantine a few maybe? but really no other tanks on me. ANyway any help appreciated im miserable watching my fish suffer right now....