in my 55 right now i have two jack dempseys and an african knife. i have been having an algae problem the past few weeks and my two jd's dont seem very active. i have to be honest, at the moment i dont have anything to test my water, but i have been doing 30%-50% water changes about every three or for days, and for filtration i have two h.ob.s both rated for 60 gallons, one is filled with fluval bio rings and the other is the slandered setup, carbon and what i think is filter floss. i am tight on money right now, that is the only reason i dont have a test kit, i was using those strips but dont have any right now.
here is whats in my one h.o.b
one jd sits under this piece of drift wood all day, and just lays very still, and the other stays in the floating plants i have.
with the algae, i have a bottle of algae destroyer and followed the directions and it did not seem to help.
here are some picks of the algae, and even after i stir up the sand after every water change it still comes back, and its really bad on my intakes, i scrape it off every time i do a water change.
and this is the largest jd of the two
they dont really show signs of stress, i never see them all black or with black strips, some days there will swim around being very active, but most of the time they just lay around. i did have an angel fish and poly in the tank also, they were both very active, i thought those two were the cause for the jd's not being active so i gave them to a co-worker who put them both in a 125. but that was two weeks ago and still no improvment with the jd's.
would taking down one of my filters and cleaning it out very good help, and wait another month and clean the other one out. any help or advise would be great, im just worried about my fish.
here is whats in my one h.o.b
one jd sits under this piece of drift wood all day, and just lays very still, and the other stays in the floating plants i have.
with the algae, i have a bottle of algae destroyer and followed the directions and it did not seem to help.
here are some picks of the algae, and even after i stir up the sand after every water change it still comes back, and its really bad on my intakes, i scrape it off every time i do a water change.
and this is the largest jd of the two
they dont really show signs of stress, i never see them all black or with black strips, some days there will swim around being very active, but most of the time they just lay around. i did have an angel fish and poly in the tank also, they were both very active, i thought those two were the cause for the jd's not being active so i gave them to a co-worker who put them both in a 125. but that was two weeks ago and still no improvment with the jd's.
would taking down one of my filters and cleaning it out very good help, and wait another month and clean the other one out. any help or advise would be great, im just worried about my fish.
