HELP!!! Frontosas turning white!!!

[Da Chosen SouL]

Hey.. So I had my Wc Fronts for a little over a month now.. And they are all Deep Purple color.. They have been happy and no problem.. However.. Today For some reason 3 of the frontosas were not purple like they use to be.. They were white.. no color.. I checked the water and these are my reading ..

Nitrite: Between 0-.25
Ph: 8.0-8.2
Nitrate: 0-10
Ammonia: 0-.25

Im planning to do a 15% water change tomorrow. And my water is also cloudy.. WTH shuold I do?? This never happed to me before?? Im scared!

Should I add some aquarium salt.. ?? Or should I add some cichild lake salt?? Or what should I do??

 

[Lupin]

Your ammonia and nitrite should have remained zero. Considering your pH is extremely high, ammonia also would be VERY toxic at this point. Do a large water change right now. Don't add aquarium salt.

Have you been overfeeding?
Have you cleaned the filter recently? If so, how?
When was your last water change?
What test kit do you use?
Have you added a new fish recently? If so, was it quarantined?
Tank size?
Tankmates?

 

[Da Chosen SouL]

Well for frontosas the PH supposed to be 8.0-8.2
I did a water change couple weeks ago
I clean the filters in the same aquarium water
I use API test kits
All the fish are from the same batch
180 gallons
No tankmates
Just 10 WC forntosas..

Water is couldy.. One fontosa has couldy eye, but he came like that..

These fish use to swim around a lot.. now all they do is hide..

 

[Lupin]

I wasn't recommending nor telling you that your pH is so high that it should be lowered. On the contrary, your pH is fine. My point was that ammonia tends to become more toxic, the higher your pH hence why a large water change as immediately as possible is quite necessary at this point. I keep goldfish and my pH is 8.0 so I have to be careful with my water parameters as much as possible considering the fact goldfish are very messy.

It's time you need to do more water changes actually. Biweekly water changes will not cut it. The consequences from wide time gap between series of water changes can cost you your whole collection of frontosas. Weekly is the minimum and I would advise doing at least 50%. Filtration in itself will not adequately remove ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. You need to do more water changes to be able to do that.

 

[ozz465]

U really should do weekly water changes , as for the water being cloudy maybe ure filters are not yet seeded? are u over feeding? temp? type of filtration? i have 7 ina 135g myself with a few other fish and weekly water changes and more than normal feedings and never had what u are describing.

 

[Da Chosen SouL]

IM feeding the new life spectra... They eat all of it.. I have 3 filters running which have been all preped..

XP3
C-360 mainland
and a hang on bio filter..

 

[ozz465]

Try a more frequent water change schedule. and lets see what they reaction is .any pics?