Immediate help please

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Use the test kit that came with the 120 as long as it's not very old. Otherwise invest in a new one. If you have a pocket of toxins in the sand in one tank it doesnt mean you'll have it in an other, right now. Trumpet snals are great for burrowing through the sand and keeping it turned preventing and anarobic condition from delevoping. They do multiply quickly though and can become more than you want just crush them and let the fis eat them. They don't bother anything or eat plants. Just check everything and or like I said let the LFS do it for you. You do use a declorinator at WCs, correct? You can also check your tape water with the kit so you have a base line reading of what's going into the tank.
 
Unless you have a very densly planted tank that's very lightly stocked a zero nitrate reading is highly un-likely. Most tap water has some nitrate in it. A zero reading would indicate the tank is not cycled. A typical reading for a cycled tank would be somthing like 0-0-15 as an example. Shake the hell out of the nitrate bottle and try to retest as you said your test strip showed a nitrate level of 20. What is the experation date on the kit? Do you clean your filters very often? It's possible you cleaned it so good you depleted the bio-filter to the point you put the tank back into a mini-cycle. Never clean too much at one time it is important to let the benificial bacteria have time to grow and establish itself or your tank will be constantly cycling. Like I said check everything and eliminate possible causes one at a time untill you find the root problem.
 
Liquid test kit bottles show 2003 and 2006 on it but not as an expiration date.So clearly not reliable.I will post shortly what LFS comes up with.I only rinse cartridges every 2 weeks and replace them once a month.I keep bio rings in filter which I don't clean or mess with.Only plants in the tank are fake and were rinsed before putting in tank weeks ago.


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has it rained recently? sometimes they dump extra chlorine into the water after it rains. maybe your new conditioner doesnt neutralize heavy metals.
 
Yes it has been raining off and on for the week.The conditioner says it removes heavy metals and impurities from water.LFS says water conditions are perfect so the only other thing I can think of is the BB from weekly water changes but I change the filters once a month and have bio rings.They should of been getting better in isolation tank.They're still breathing fast and one is zipping around the tank.I guess I'll have to wait it out and pray with the time passing they get better,it's a wait and see at this point nothing else I can think of that could cause this.Thanks everyone for help and input,keep it coming.


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yeah, could be alot of things when the water company doses extra chlorine or cholormines into the water. could be the normal does of water conditioner was not enough to netualize the EXTRA chlorine in your water system and it could of injured your fish's gills and or eliminated your bio filtration which could cause a rise of ammonia levels in your tank. i recommend you do a 25% DAILY water change with a double does of conditioner into the new water until your fish appear to get better, hope its not too late
 
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