Royal with acidic water?

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frozeneclipse said:
My nitrite is usually in that mark.


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That's weird. To be sure, I would take some water to your LFS and have them test your nitrite to make sure your test kit isn't defective.

If your nitrite/nitrate levels are always above zero, then your bio load is insufficient.

Again, your levels aren't that bad. Keep the lights off in the aquarium for a few days with some cucumber in there.




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This is most likly a water quality issue. I'm not a Pleco expert but I would suggest doing a 50% water change and adding 1 tbls aquarium salt per 10 gallons of water. I also agree with dosing with Seachem Prime and get some Seachem Sability too. These suggestions should help strighted out the water issue.
 
What's the status?

How are those water changes going?

I'm staring at my 6" and 8" plecos and I just realized that some of your concern is the eating.

I just wanted to say that my dudes sometimes go a couple, sometimes a few days without eating the food i give them. Like, they don't touch the veggies i put in there. They're not starving, they just find something on the side of the tank or they're not hungry. I've never heard of a pleco dying from starvation.

Let us know how it's going.
 
get some duckweed and you'll never have water trouble again but you will have duckweed trouble lol i use duckweed in all three of my tanks and only do 25% water changes like every three months most of the time the pump is not on. the stuff is great but it just grows so fast and you have to clean it out from time to time. hope that helps
 
Hey I think she is fighting to recover. She starts to move around more but still not eating : (

I will start doing 25% water change every other day. I put more Oxygen with air pump and use aquarium salt, prime, melafex. Don't know if i over use the chemicals.

I just ordered additional filter ( fluval c3) just in case my filtration is the problem.

Duck weed? Hmmm I will see if my lfs carry em.

---> thank you guys for all the help and useful tips! This is my second Royal as the first one I have no idea about panaque dietary.


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Cartel j said:
get some duckweed and you'll never have water trouble again but you will have duckweed trouble lol i use duckweed in all three of my tanks and only do 25% water changes like every three months most of the time the pump is not on. the stuff is great but it just grows so fast and you have to clean it out from time to time. hope that helps
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While having plants can help to remove ammonia and nitrates(link and another link), and plants are cool to have anyway, removing nitrates isn't the only reason to do water changes. Changing water removes things like built up hormones, removes hardness minerals that are left-in/added-to the tank by topping off evaporation, and replenishes minerals and trace elements. Of course size of tank/fish stock matter, but monthly water changes would a bad idea IMO, every 3 months is a horrible idea, especially with plants and a poop machine like a pleco.


frozeneclipse said:
Hey I think she is fighting to recover. She starts to move around more but still not eating : (

I will start doing 25% water change every other day. I put more Oxygen with air pump and use aquarium salt, prime, melafex. Don't know if i over use the chemicals.

I just ordered additional filter ( fluval c3) just in case my filtration is the problem.

Duck weed? Hmmm I will see if my lfs carry em.

---> thank you guys for all the help and useful tips! This is my second Royal as the first one I have no idea about panaque dietary.


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The two HOB filters you will be running will agitate the water surface (break surface tension) plenty enough to add oxygen.

Adding the C3 will definitely help, you want to get to a constant of 0 ammo and 0 nitrite at the very least. 0 nitrate can be achieved with the right bio media/substrate and there are articles abound about housing anaerobic bacteria and DEnitrification.
 
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