Bobears;3183651; said:
How long has it been since these discus were introduced to the tank? Did they go straight to the tank? What other fish are in the tank? 50-75% water changes everyday should stop this water quality problem if that's it. I happen to think you have other issues and we may not have asked you the right questions. What is in that 135 and are we talking gallons? 5 discus is nothing for a 135gal, or even 10 sub adult. Have you done something you not saying?
I had it set up for 6-8 months, then the fx5 went hey-wire and spit out the carbon on to the gravel. so I bought a 55 gallon set that up with some of the bio-max from the fx5 I put the discus in the 55 gallon everything was fine.
took out all the water, and gravel.so to get the carbon out I drained the 135(yes gallons a 135 gallon tank)kept the fx5 wet added pool filter sand, new water and put prime and stability in there. I keep getting it test, no not ready. then 2 1/2 -3 weeks later(which was a week ago) I went to a discus breeder shop, and got the water tested and they tested it with those electric pen probs and the wife said everything was good but the ph, then after 5 mins. the ph reading dropped from 7.5 to 7.0 I said is that ok, and she said yes. so when I got home, I put the discus(35) from the 55G in the 135.(sold some of them and got my total count of discus down to around 20) everything was going fine. oh before the discus I put 10 bumble bee catfish in there. everything was going fine. then I ran out of flake food I was feeding tetra min, I picked up hagen flake food and ocean nutrition discus formula and feed the discus that stuff along with sanfrinsico(spelling?) bay bloodworms and beefheart. as so as I started feeding the different flake and added the discus formula is when they started to act weird. there is also this white jello looking stuff on the net. there 2 - 250 watt hearts on one side of the tank next to the outtake where the water returns from the canister.
I have a corallife digital read out themometer but it's going heywire.
so I've been using one of those float around at the bottom it reads 85.
86-87 if I leave the lights on for a long time.
is it possible that the benifical bacteria died off from not having oxagen? or is it possible the wife didn't do the test right with those prob pens. because I walked in the store and said I need my water tested and she goes it's for discus right, and I said yes I'll be in the back looking at the fish.
then 5 mins later she comes back and says everything is fine but your ph is 7.5 it needs to be 7.0 that is what we keep are discus at. so then I walked up to the counter and she still had the ph pen probe in the water and its reading dropped to 7.0 she said oh look at that the ph is 7.0 you're good to go, so I said I can add discus, she said yes you can add discus. I'm guessing this was a bad move, and should indecateded something since the ph droped .5 in 5mins?
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