Water Parameters

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Jeffrey_L

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Please forgive me if I post this in the wrong section of this forum.

I seriously need some help with my Oscar tank.

For the past couple of days I notice that my two baby Oscars one red tiger and one albino have been changing colors.

At first I thought to my self that they must just be growing and it's a natural thing but after starting to see some black on the fins of my albino I went out and bought my self a test kid to see what the water quality was.

Here are the results -

P.H. - 7.4
Ammonia - 0.50 PPM
Nitrite - 5.0 PPM
Nitrate - 160 PPM
Temp - 79

I'm having a bad feeling about these numbers.

Please help. I also tried to changing the food to see if that would help the color of my two babies but no luck.

tyia
 
amonia should be 0 so should nitrites, they can harm your fish
 
Jeffrey_L;4557885; said:
Both Nitrites and Nitrate?

If I'm understanding right.
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Your nitrates are also very very VERY high, you need to do a 50% water change immediatly. Your Nitrites should be 0 and so should your amonia. Nitrites, Amonia, and high levels of Nitrates can be deadly
 
i agree with Deep Blue sea they should be 0 try a 25% water change then 24 hours later do a 25% water change that should bring everything down to 0 or you could try using prime
 
Thanks - I'm going to do a water change right away. Should I wait at least 24 hours after doing the water change to run test again? I will keep this thread updated with the new test results and see what happens.
 
How big is your tank ?
What filtration do you have ?
What biological media are you using and how much biological media in your filters ?

Sounds like your tank has not cycled ?

In a situation like this I would do an emergency detox of the tank. A product such as seachems prime will do this for you.
 
rhodes_96;4557936; said:
How big is your tank ?
What filtration do you have ?
What biological media are you using and how much biological media in your filters ?

Sounds like your tank has not cycled ?

In a situation like this I would do an emergency detox of the tank. A product such as seachems prime will do this for you.
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It's a 20 Gal tanks with a Aqua Clear 20 filter - I know it's a little small to be keeping Oscars in as they grow fairly quickly and big. I will be upgrading very soon.

I'm assuming that it's an all in one filter... " if there's such a thing ".

Update:

I just finish doing the water change. Waiting for the tank to clear up a little and plan on doing a test.
 
how long was your tank running before you put the fish in there?
 
Deep Blue Sea;4558118; said:
how long was your tank running before you put the fish in there?
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The tank was running about a month before I put the Oscars in there. I did use a 2 feeder gold fish to help cycle the tank - not sure if that's where I made the mistake.
 
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