Taelen
Aquarium Advice Freak
I just did my usual weekly PWC to 50% and I'm not sure what has happened but all the fish appear to be distressed somehow (whether it's swimming strangely or in odd directions or what I think is called "flashing" when they swipe the gravel) and I just lost one of my black phantom tetras.
Hopefully someone can let me know what's happened and what I can do before something else happens.
I tested the parameters twice in the last hour and there seems to have been an ammonia spike somewhere around 0.25ppm, although I'm not sure how as I didn't really do anything different. I vacuumed the gravel as I always do...did I release some kind of gas pocket? Nitrate and nitrite were fine while pH was a little higher than normal, around 7.2-7.3.
Another thing I did today was change the filter in my HOB. When I do this, there seems to be a bit of debris that floats in, but this has never caused the fish to react this way. Should I do another PWC right away or should I wait. Not sure how to proceed at this point.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hopefully someone can let me know what's happened and what I can do before something else happens.
I tested the parameters twice in the last hour and there seems to have been an ammonia spike somewhere around 0.25ppm, although I'm not sure how as I didn't really do anything different. I vacuumed the gravel as I always do...did I release some kind of gas pocket? Nitrate and nitrite were fine while pH was a little higher than normal, around 7.2-7.3.
Another thing I did today was change the filter in my HOB. When I do this, there seems to be a bit of debris that floats in, but this has never caused the fish to react this way. Should I do another PWC right away or should I wait. Not sure how to proceed at this point.
Any help would be appreciated.