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December 19, 2005
My Fish Tank Has Gone Nuts
For months my fish tank has just been going along, everything's been fine and all has been happy in fish land. A couple of months ago, out of no where, algae developed and it's been a downhill battle from there!
I've done everything under the sun to get rid of the algae. I've scrubbed, I've put in stuff that is supposed to kill it, I've changed water galore and the stuff is still there! I've talked to them about the algae, I've followed their advice and nothing! And since the algae has appeared I've been losing fish. Someone suggested getting some algae fish, but they died. Someone else said to get a snail...it died. My Plecostamus was supposed to eat algae, but he died...see a pattern forming here? I've tested the water and everything has been fine...pH, nitrites, nitrates, amonia, all fine. I had the fish store test the water in case my methods weren't working and they said everything is fine as well.
So tonight I went into super duper fish tank cleaning mode. We'll see if works. Also when I tested the water this evening for the first time the pH was way low so I treated that as well. And I found a couple of fish that had died that I hadn't realized were gone because they hide in the plants a lot anyway. We'll see what happens from here, but I hope this settles everything out and the fish tank goes back to carefree, happy fish land. Every time a fish dies it breaks a little piece of my heart.
Posted by Daffodil at December 19, 2005 8:15 PM
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Did you check for chloramines? We had to start completely over once because of chloramines--everything died by our kuhli loach. I think we might have even ended up with new rocks after that.
Posted by: cjmr at December 19, 2005 8:47 PM
Ooops! That should be everything died but our kuhli loach.
Posted by: cjmr at December 19, 2005 8:48 PM
They checked for that and it was normal. It's just a weird situation. It's almost not possible. LOL
Posted by: Dianne at December 19, 2005 10:02 PM