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Ok new test from tap water n yes I guess tap water comes with nitrites. Weird thing is that I fill my other tanks with the same water n the other tanks are fine n nobody is dying

Yeah we had 15 female bettas now we have only 5 left that's how bad this whole thing got. And each koi female betta cost us $40 . But regardless the cost we just love those girls my wife even named each of them n when we lost the queen B " Aurora " we lost it. She would rule the tank n protect...

No I didn't test the tap water but I'm doing it right now n will post the result in a few

Ok these are the water parameters from this morning . The nitrates went sky hight once again n I did a massive 80% water change on Wednesday today I did another 70% water change. I just don't understand how come after an 80% water change the nitrates went crazy high again. I'm listening to any...

Well I found another girl gone n one more is on her way out. That would leave me with 2 koi betta girls and one normal betta girl plus 4 or 5 Cory but the corys r doing fine Ok these are all the plants I have in the female bettas tank the only thing in the tank when nitrates went crazy were...

Well thank you so much for your advice. Besides water changes what else should I do ro re recycle the rank ? I will retest n send pics of the tube plus the color chart

I know I did a 25 % water change yesterday hopefully will help Yes it is

I can't remember the numbers but it was bad like right in middle of the color list. Way more than 20. Ammonia was I think it was like 2.5 it wasn't a lot but it was something

Well I came back from work yesterday n found 4 of my Koi betta females dead. That as u can imagine really upset me big time on Monday I lost another one. I checked the water parameters n there was a little ammonia but not too crazy no nitrites ph was 7.6 but freaking Nitrates were back at high...

Yeah I know I made a mistake with the original post talking bout nitrites n nitrates but my phone wrote nitrites both times. Nitrates is what I got still 5.0 I thought it was 0.5 . I got totally confused myself. I'm ba I use these ammonia and PH readers yesterday the circle inbthe middle was...

The ones I got for what I read won't grow bigger than 4 inches

Today I came across 5 upsidedown catfish at a meijer grocery store gor only $1,65 a piece. My question is .... can upsidedown catfish live in a tank with corys and clown loaches ?

Ok my bad , nitrates are 5.0 then not 0.5.

Ok so I guess duckweed could help with the nitrates I think I have duckweed in another tank so as a back up plan if I use salt what kind of salt should I use ? N how much should I pour for a 36 gallons tank ?

Correction: nitrates were 0.5 So what should I do to get rid of that 0.5 % of nitrates? Should I change some water ? If I decide to do the salt thing l8ke you said how do I do it ? Did I use kitchen salt ? How much of salt should I use ? Or what else can I do So how do I use salt to get rid...

Well, praised God, all fish survived the night in a cooler . The ammonia n ph were fine early this morning when I ran downstairs to check on the fish. I tested nitrites n nitrates. Nitrites were zero but Nitrites was 0.5. Is that bad that there is still some ? Should I change some water ?

Well after a whole we got the whole female koi betta Tank re done n all cleaned up. We got rid of the water with nitrite n nitrites n all the garden mix dirt. We rinsed all the plants n put em backmin there . Ammonia n PH aren't the greatest just yet but it's getting there. We will add the...