Hey so title says it. I have recently had bad luck with stocking my new tank and have had outbreaks of velvet and ick in the last two months. ( yes I now have a QT tank ) When treating the velvet for two weeks with seachem paraguard, I had no water issues. Two weeks after treating the velvet, I got ick and treated for 7 days with paraguard, this time I had my ammonia pop up to .5-1 ppm and its stayed there for about 10 days and I cant get down. The tank has not had any meds in it for about 5 days and the ammonia has stayed steady at .5-1ppm. I've read that paraguard is filter safe, does anyone have experience with it killing off the bacteria?? The only thing i can think of is that the paraguard killed my filter.
Tank is 300 gallons and been up and running for 4 months had fish in it for 3 months. Tank was properly cycled with a fish less cycle . Had perfect water conditions until now.
So here's what I've done since I detected the ammonia. I've done a 20% water change every other day and dosed tank with prime every other day. For the past two days ive added seachems stability, thinking my bacteria might have been killed off. Ammonia still not budging as of today. (tap water ammonia by the way is at 0)
Water P's : Ammonia .5-1, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 15, Ph 8.2, Temp 82
Current stock in 300 gallon: 5 3-4" Silverdollars, 1 6" Lima shovelnose, 1 4" Four-lined pictus, 4" 1 Flagtail, 1 3-4" Clown knife..
Filtration: 2 Fx6's filled with matrix and ceramic rings, 2 huge sponge fileter as well. Ill be adding more filtration once my fish get bigger and can handle more current
I'm guessing that my filter has taken a hit and I'm just going through the process of getting my bacteria colonies back up. I wanted to see what you guys think just to make sure im on the right track?
Thanks in advance!
Tank is 300 gallons and been up and running for 4 months had fish in it for 3 months. Tank was properly cycled with a fish less cycle . Had perfect water conditions until now.
So here's what I've done since I detected the ammonia. I've done a 20% water change every other day and dosed tank with prime every other day. For the past two days ive added seachems stability, thinking my bacteria might have been killed off. Ammonia still not budging as of today. (tap water ammonia by the way is at 0)
Water P's : Ammonia .5-1, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 15, Ph 8.2, Temp 82
Current stock in 300 gallon: 5 3-4" Silverdollars, 1 6" Lima shovelnose, 1 4" Four-lined pictus, 4" 1 Flagtail, 1 3-4" Clown knife..
Filtration: 2 Fx6's filled with matrix and ceramic rings, 2 huge sponge fileter as well. Ill be adding more filtration once my fish get bigger and can handle more current
I'm guessing that my filter has taken a hit and I'm just going through the process of getting my bacteria colonies back up. I wanted to see what you guys think just to make sure im on the right track?
Thanks in advance!