GouramiGuru
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2010
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Hey everybody; I am currently dealing with a problem that I have had very little experience with thus far in the hobby. I have been in the proccess of setting up and cycling a new/old 10 gallon tank. Now, everything is going pretty normal despite the speed bumps of finding out that my tap water has abnormally high ammonia/chloramine levels -- but recently some strange things have been occuring.
I am running a 10 gallon tank with two 10 gallon Tetra Corner Filters (we already had them, and money has been tight since moving), accompanied by an airstone. At the moment there is a Dwarf Gourami and an Anubias Nana attached to lava rock in the tank; however, when I added an African Dwarf Frog it quickly succumbed to Gas Bubble Disease. Several weeks later I added a small school of Corydoras (Brochis Splendens); initially when introduced to the tank they acted normally, however, after a few hours they became much more inactive, and I began to notice what seemed to be the initial stages of pop-eye on two of the smaller ones. When I woke up the next morning the entire school of them had passed .
Ammonia is at 0, Nitrite is 0, and small amounts of Nitrates are present (well below anything harmful to fish.) I am only now realizing that I may be supersaturating the tank with oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or an abundance of too much gaseous material in some way, shape, or form?
I love fish and absolute love this hobby; but this is an aspect of the trade I have never really encountered, so if someone could please enlighten me as to what my problem is or what I am doing wrong, it would be utmost appreciated.
I am running a 10 gallon tank with two 10 gallon Tetra Corner Filters (we already had them, and money has been tight since moving), accompanied by an airstone. At the moment there is a Dwarf Gourami and an Anubias Nana attached to lava rock in the tank; however, when I added an African Dwarf Frog it quickly succumbed to Gas Bubble Disease. Several weeks later I added a small school of Corydoras (Brochis Splendens); initially when introduced to the tank they acted normally, however, after a few hours they became much more inactive, and I began to notice what seemed to be the initial stages of pop-eye on two of the smaller ones. When I woke up the next morning the entire school of them had passed .
Ammonia is at 0, Nitrite is 0, and small amounts of Nitrates are present (well below anything harmful to fish.) I am only now realizing that I may be supersaturating the tank with oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or an abundance of too much gaseous material in some way, shape, or form?
I love fish and absolute love this hobby; but this is an aspect of the trade I have never really encountered, so if someone could please enlighten me as to what my problem is or what I am doing wrong, it would be utmost appreciated.