What happened to my fish?

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What test kit are you using? Your first post is confusing me. You said there is no ammonia yet somehow suspect if the ammonia is increasing after you overfeed. If you have issues with your cories not getting enough food, temporarily place a divider to separate the cories during meal time. Overfeeding is not an excuse to allow equal share among all your fish. It simply promotes overproduction of food leftovers and wastes, and deteriorates water quality even more rapidly.

Please test nitrate and nitrate.
 
Lupin;4208862; said:
What test kit are you using? Your first post is confusing me. You said there is no ammonia yet somehow suspect if the ammonia is increasing after you overfeed. If you have issues with your cories not getting enough food, temporarily place a divider to separate the cories during meal time. Overfeeding is not an excuse to allow equal share among all your fish. It simply promotes overproduction of food leftovers and wastes, and deteriorates water quality even more rapidly.

Please test nitrate and nitrate.
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Ammonia is 0 when I test it, but I was afraid that it spiked after feeding when all the food was being pooped out. I don't know exactly how long it takes for them to excrete their wastes so I don't know the exact time to check ammonia. Anyways, now that I think about it I don't think I overfeed that badly...I feed flakes and have HOB filters so often times the flakes sink to the cories on the bottom. I used to have an oscar in there and fed it a small piece of shrimp everyday, definitely much more ammonia than the amount of flakes I feed.
 
you can have zero ammonia but nitrates still be high . . . you should have a ntirate test kit handy just to verify that paratmeters are in a healthy range

ammonia is a killer, but high nitrates - - especially if kept at a high level for extended period of time - - will also detrimental to your fish, particularlyangels
 
Freezekougra;4209687; said:
i do 50% weekly or twice weekly, plus I have a bunch of plants in there to absorb nitrates
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me too, I do 2x weekly water change, and my tanks are heavily planted, which definitely helps control nitrate levels :clap

that being said, since you have a problem, you are well advised to test your nitrate levels, to make sure . . . you need to have that reality check, otherwise you're just assuming, and that's not the best way to go . . .
 
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