zach_1_6
Aquarium Advice FINatic
My girlfriend set up 30 gallon long planted tank 2 months ago. We seeded the media from my established tank and let it be while adding some food for an ammonia source. As of now there are 9 mollies and 3 swordtails that we added 3 at a time to avoid a huge bio load increase. All the fish are hiding in the plants and will only come out for feeding but are acting very skittish. All was fine until we added the 2nd set of 3 fish and since then they all hide. They all look healthy without any signs of stress or sickness, no red gills and they are breathing fine, no ich, they just hide 24-7 and if they come out it's for food or they just get scared and back into the plants they go.
30% water change weekly
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate- was high due to dry ferts being dosed incorrectly so we stopped and continued water changes to lower them. As of now I don't know what the nitrates are at but I can't see this being the main problem.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
30% water change weekly
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate- was high due to dry ferts being dosed incorrectly so we stopped and continued water changes to lower them. As of now I don't know what the nitrates are at but I can't see this being the main problem.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!