eatenbylocusts
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Dec 11, 2012
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My daughter was given this male betta October 1. We put him in the supplied 1/2 gallon. After doing some reading I added a plant, then bought the 2.5 Aqueon Betta bow tank which comes with a filter and light. He's been in this tank for over a month and I added a wisteria when setting up the bigger tank.
The Wisteria did some growing and at the same time I noticed some dark green stuff floating around. I trimmed the plant, changed the filter which was very green and we scooped up as much green and dirty gravel as we could. I had to do another filter change a week later and twice I have found the filter unplugged.
Two days ago the fish was sitting on the bottom of the tank in the am, but interacted. When my daughter got home she was concerned and he was lying on his side on one of his rocks. I noticed the filter unplugged (this was the second time). I changed the green filter again and we broke out the master test kit that I had never opened.
12/9/12-Ph 8.1, ammonia 0.25, nitrite 0, nitrate 6.0ppm. I did close to a 50% water change. We haven't fed him since 12/8 night.
I made a stop at Petco yesterday, checked the pH again and found it to be 7.8. I used 4 drops of API Ph down yesterday afternoon. I bought a gravel filter from them, but haven't done that yet. The filter has very little green on it right now. I just didn't like the way he looked last night, he was spending most of time hiding behind a plant and rock at the bottom of the tank so I put him in his little container he came in with half being fresh water. (I do use drops to treat all the tap water).
I will clean the gravel, rocks, and walls real well later today and re-test everything, but would like some insight into what went wrong. I just gave him 2 flakes of nutrafin which he gobbled up.
Thanks
The Wisteria did some growing and at the same time I noticed some dark green stuff floating around. I trimmed the plant, changed the filter which was very green and we scooped up as much green and dirty gravel as we could. I had to do another filter change a week later and twice I have found the filter unplugged.
Two days ago the fish was sitting on the bottom of the tank in the am, but interacted. When my daughter got home she was concerned and he was lying on his side on one of his rocks. I noticed the filter unplugged (this was the second time). I changed the green filter again and we broke out the master test kit that I had never opened.
12/9/12-Ph 8.1, ammonia 0.25, nitrite 0, nitrate 6.0ppm. I did close to a 50% water change. We haven't fed him since 12/8 night.
I made a stop at Petco yesterday, checked the pH again and found it to be 7.8. I used 4 drops of API Ph down yesterday afternoon. I bought a gravel filter from them, but haven't done that yet. The filter has very little green on it right now. I just didn't like the way he looked last night, he was spending most of time hiding behind a plant and rock at the bottom of the tank so I put him in his little container he came in with half being fresh water. (I do use drops to treat all the tap water).
I will clean the gravel, rocks, and walls real well later today and re-test everything, but would like some insight into what went wrong. I just gave him 2 flakes of nutrafin which he gobbled up.
Thanks