Thanks for the input everyone..
here's the situation now....
@ Home : Tank size is 4 ft X 1.5ft X 1 ft ( Length, width, water height )
its been running for 2 months with only a mediocre sponge filter inside a blue acrylic box everyone would use on top of a small goldfish tank. So basicly I got no biological filter. I do WC 2X daily 30% each while sucking the poo out with a hose.
The motoro pair have been with me for 2 months, and the pearls arrived 2 weeks ago.
I do have RO filter at home, water comes out of it with 6.0 pH.
my tap water usually has 7.5-7.8 pH.
So I keep my tank at home usually at 7.3 pH by mixing tap and RO water.
Last week my cuzz took my pHmeter and I got it back from him only after the death of the motoro.
I took a reading on my tap water and it never goes below 8.0 now..
I even bought a 7.0 buffer to re calibrate it, and its still the same.
Its been quite OK until 2 days ago I forgot to clean the sponge in the filter.
I usually do that every 2 days, and when the motoro died, all I can assume is because there's plenty of the poo on the sponge,there might be enough
ammonia in the tank to kill one. I do 3x WC daily now and stopped the filter.
@ Office : I got the same size tank, but with a sump just as big but water level in the sump is 1.5 ft. The sump has bioballs, biorings/ceramics, some japanese mats, and 2 more chambers kept for maybe peat/ anything I dont know...
I've checked and the pH is 8.3 in the tank and in the sump.
The fresh out of tap has 8.5 pH.
Its not that I cant do water changes here, but I'm afraid it will rise the pH in the tank further...
The problem here is the tank has only been running for 2 days.
Probably hasnt got any bacteria in the sump.
I will go and buy some bacteria booster/starter.
Also two days ago I put 5 neontetras in the tank.
4 has perished so far, my best guess is because the water current in the tank is TOO STRONG, got it fixed, hopefully the last one survived for another day and I will see it as a OK.
Temperature in every tank is probably the same since I dont use any heater and the office is only 2 miles from home and has the same climate.
Anything else or info you guys need just shoot..
I'm deeply grateful for inputs and infos
My plan is to move the last motoro to the office in the morning,
and if he survived 2 days there, the pearls will join him.
here's the situation now....
@ Home : Tank size is 4 ft X 1.5ft X 1 ft ( Length, width, water height )
its been running for 2 months with only a mediocre sponge filter inside a blue acrylic box everyone would use on top of a small goldfish tank. So basicly I got no biological filter. I do WC 2X daily 30% each while sucking the poo out with a hose.
The motoro pair have been with me for 2 months, and the pearls arrived 2 weeks ago.
I do have RO filter at home, water comes out of it with 6.0 pH.
my tap water usually has 7.5-7.8 pH.
So I keep my tank at home usually at 7.3 pH by mixing tap and RO water.
Last week my cuzz took my pHmeter and I got it back from him only after the death of the motoro.
I took a reading on my tap water and it never goes below 8.0 now..
I even bought a 7.0 buffer to re calibrate it, and its still the same.
Its been quite OK until 2 days ago I forgot to clean the sponge in the filter.
I usually do that every 2 days, and when the motoro died, all I can assume is because there's plenty of the poo on the sponge,there might be enough
ammonia in the tank to kill one. I do 3x WC daily now and stopped the filter.
@ Office : I got the same size tank, but with a sump just as big but water level in the sump is 1.5 ft. The sump has bioballs, biorings/ceramics, some japanese mats, and 2 more chambers kept for maybe peat/ anything I dont know...
I've checked and the pH is 8.3 in the tank and in the sump.
The fresh out of tap has 8.5 pH.
Its not that I cant do water changes here, but I'm afraid it will rise the pH in the tank further...
The problem here is the tank has only been running for 2 days.
Probably hasnt got any bacteria in the sump.
I will go and buy some bacteria booster/starter.
Also two days ago I put 5 neontetras in the tank.
4 has perished so far, my best guess is because the water current in the tank is TOO STRONG, got it fixed, hopefully the last one survived for another day and I will see it as a OK.
Temperature in every tank is probably the same since I dont use any heater and the office is only 2 miles from home and has the same climate.
Anything else or info you guys need just shoot..
I'm deeply grateful for inputs and infos
My plan is to move the last motoro to the office in the morning,
and if he survived 2 days there, the pearls will join him.
