sooju
Aquarium Advice Freak
I inherited a fully cycled 26 gallon saltwater tank a week ago and have no idea what I'm doing. Everything was fine until this morning when everything is dead or gasping.
The analyticals are:
temp 82 (I've lowered the heater to bring it down a few degrees)
pH 8.0
rel. gr. 1.023
Nitrates 40 ppm
Ammonia and Nitrites are 0
I only have a test strip for carbonate hardness but it looks like 240 (but it's been that way all week...)
None of the above reading are significantly different from where they've been so could it be oxygen? Please help!! My poor seahorses are gone. :-(
The only other thing I can think of is we did our first 20% water change 24 hrs ago - mixed 5 gallons distilled water w/ salt and aerated for 48 hrs before using. But that was yesterday morning and the fish looked fine all day yesterday.
The analyticals are:
temp 82 (I've lowered the heater to bring it down a few degrees)
pH 8.0
rel. gr. 1.023
Nitrates 40 ppm
Ammonia and Nitrites are 0
I only have a test strip for carbonate hardness but it looks like 240 (but it's been that way all week...)
None of the above reading are significantly different from where they've been so could it be oxygen? Please help!! My poor seahorses are gone. :-(
The only other thing I can think of is we did our first 20% water change 24 hrs ago - mixed 5 gallons distilled water w/ salt and aerated for 48 hrs before using. But that was yesterday morning and the fish looked fine all day yesterday.