so i am convinced that there is something going on in one of my tanks that is making my fish sick. at this point I'm blaming the potting soil.
first.. i lost a cory cat to what started off as pop eye and turned into something else. she was showing signs of getting better then died.
second.. i lost the betta. no signs of illness. dead from one day to the next.
third.. another one of my cory cats is now sick. pop eye. it looks like its in its early stages, his eye is just a little cloudy but i found him floating this morning breathing heavy.
its ten gallon tank. heavily planted. 50% changes weekly. at night the temp is around 82 and during the day it gets around 88. we've been having 100+ days for about three weeks now, its a little hard to combat that. the tank has a base layer of some organic potting soil and top layer of some aquarium sand. the cory cats do a good job of digging up soil so every time i do a water change i end up gravel vaccing a lot of that soil out.
i feed them nls algaemax. once a day or every two days.
I'm going to break down the tank this week and remove all the soil and just use sand. unless someone else can come up with a reason that I'm losing fish.
first.. i lost a cory cat to what started off as pop eye and turned into something else. she was showing signs of getting better then died.
second.. i lost the betta. no signs of illness. dead from one day to the next.
third.. another one of my cory cats is now sick. pop eye. it looks like its in its early stages, his eye is just a little cloudy but i found him floating this morning breathing heavy.
its ten gallon tank. heavily planted. 50% changes weekly. at night the temp is around 82 and during the day it gets around 88. we've been having 100+ days for about three weeks now, its a little hard to combat that. the tank has a base layer of some organic potting soil and top layer of some aquarium sand. the cory cats do a good job of digging up soil so every time i do a water change i end up gravel vaccing a lot of that soil out.
i feed them nls algaemax. once a day or every two days.
I'm going to break down the tank this week and remove all the soil and just use sand. unless someone else can come up with a reason that I'm losing fish.
