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[steviev123]

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[Lucas Fontenele]

You should have moved to the food soaked approach.

maybe change them to another tank while you treat the disease

 

[steviev123]

I've been feeding them the pellet dough mixture and it's starting to work and fatten em up but my only problem is the nitrite of the tank


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[Lucas Fontenele]

In my opinion the only problem of the carbon would be it removing the substance from the water, and since you're putting it on food I don't see any problem.

 

[steviev123]

Sorry I misunderstood what you wanted me to do, they seem to like the food in the prazipro better than without it


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[heatherbeast]

Well, the nitrite spike means that there was an ammonia spike about 2, maybe 3 weeks ago in your tank. Can you think of anything that happened during that time? The nitrifying bacteria will EVENTUALLY turn it into nitrate, but you may want to do a large water change to remove it. I would avoid ammonia-nitrite-nitrate neutralizing chemicals right now because they deplete oxygen in the process of treating, and your fish do NOT need the additional stress.

I agree that the carbon would only be a problem if you were treating the entire tank.

 

[steviev123]

Well, the nitrite spike means that there was an ammonia spike about 2, maybe 3 weeks ago in your tank. Can you think of anything that happened during that time? The nitrifying bacteria will EVENTUALLY turn it into nitrate, but you may want to do a large water change to remove it. I would avoid ammonia-nitrite-nitrate neutralizing chemicals right now because they deplete oxygen in the process of treating, and your fish do NOT need the additional stress.

I agree that the carbon would only be a problem if you were treating the entire tank.

I've done a few water changes but that's really it


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[pops]

Was able to check the water today and recorded
Ph- 6.6-7
Nitrate-10ppm
Nitrite-2.0ppm
Ammonia-.25ppm
Why would there suddenly be a jump in nitrite, the tank has been running for at least 6 years, what do u guys recommend me doing? Help please?! Last change was last Friday night and added conditioner to get rid of chlorine and have prazipro ready just unsure if I should use it right now.

tank is not fully cycled or bio filtration is not addaquite (sp) for the tank. I would suggest every other day fin level water changes, new water dosed with prime for the size of the tank not water replacing. every other day because prime last up to 48 hours and handles up to 4ppm ammonia/chlorides. be sure to never clean your filters in tap water. always old tank water or water treated with prime, look to be getting another bio media filter if that is the case.

question: does your tank get cloudy day or 2 after changing the water

 

[steviev123]

I've had the bio filtration in there for 2 years it's fine and it gets cloudy for half a day but the next morning it's fine, do u have the same filter?


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[pops]

I think the singular "filter" speaks for itself. should have at least 2 filters on a tank, one bio, one mech, cloudy water after a water change suggests or is a symptom (sp) of not enough bio filtration or water turn over in the one you have, cloudy, not dirty water is a bacterial bloom. I would add a AC110 for mech. and fill the canister with a good bio media such as seachem matrix or fluval noodles.