Black_Orchid
New Member
Hi,
I'm a new member to TFF, I've been keeping fish for over a year but my tank has a problem . I set the tank up over a year ago cycled it and added fish. When my male guppies started fighting nearly all the time I was advised by a pet shop assistant who tends to the fish to put some females in, so I did this about 6 months ago. I recently got overrun with fry and female guppies. Over the last two weekends, I have re-homed approx 70 - 100 guppies to pets at home & paws for thought.
I thought re-homing the excess guppies would help, but I think the cycle in my tank is broken . After taking the excess guppies out I tested the water and found an ammonia spike 0.25ppm. To try and fix this I did a water change and add some of the API all-in-one water conditioner enough to replace the water I took out. This helped for a short time, but I'd say I've had to do a water change nearly every day for the last two weeks.
Tank set up
Fish as of today (I've lost a few)
X6 venezuelan corries
X5 Neon tetras
X3 Nerite snails
(x20ish endler guppies bead from my origina tank in an emergency temp tank.
Everything I've tried:
Water changes daily
Adding API all in one (supposed to eliminate all nasties) - gone through a full bottle
rightly or wrongly took all my inhabitants out - fully cleaned everything to try and kick start a new cycle.
Since Wednesday I've used a full bottle of Fluval cycle meant to kick start cycle again with fish in - done this in both tanks (temp tank is 22ish ltr aqua one)
Since setting up the temp tank my guppies are ok. When they were in the main tank were crowding in a corner at the top gasping for air and not swimming, and a few died
In my main tank, the water parameters are confusing me I've got an API master test kit that I've been using for water testing. The temp tank is following the same patterns:
Tank test 09/09/2023
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrite - 0.25 ppm
Nitrate - 20 ppm
PH - 7.4
Tank test today 10th Sep:
Ammonia - 0.25 ppm
Nitrite - 0.25 ppm
Nitrate - approx. 5 ppm
Like I said I've been using the Fluval cycle, When the ammonia spiked I panicked and used some API ammonia lock.
My corries are happy at the moment, when I checked the tank this morning I found they had laid a lot of eggs, they do this a lot. My tetras seem fine too all swimming eating not showing signs of distress. My guppies in the temp tank are swimming around happily etc.
Any advice is welcome, other than stopping adding ammonia lock and adding beneficial bacteria daily & water changes I don't know what else to do. I feel like I've put a lot of beneficial bacteria liquid down the sink and I'm no closer to getting my guppies back into the main tank.
I'm a new member to TFF, I've been keeping fish for over a year but my tank has a problem . I set the tank up over a year ago cycled it and added fish. When my male guppies started fighting nearly all the time I was advised by a pet shop assistant who tends to the fish to put some females in, so I did this about 6 months ago. I recently got overrun with fry and female guppies. Over the last two weekends, I have re-homed approx 70 - 100 guppies to pets at home & paws for thought.
I thought re-homing the excess guppies would help, but I think the cycle in my tank is broken . After taking the excess guppies out I tested the water and found an ammonia spike 0.25ppm. To try and fix this I did a water change and add some of the API all-in-one water conditioner enough to replace the water I took out. This helped for a short time, but I'd say I've had to do a water change nearly every day for the last two weeks.
Tank set up
- 70ltr Ecostyle 61 with a hood
- Fluval sky light
- Flucal U2 filter
- Hater (not on atm due to heat in the UK)
Fish as of today (I've lost a few)
X6 venezuelan corries
X5 Neon tetras
X3 Nerite snails
(x20ish endler guppies bead from my origina tank in an emergency temp tank.
Everything I've tried:
Water changes daily
Adding API all in one (supposed to eliminate all nasties) - gone through a full bottle
rightly or wrongly took all my inhabitants out - fully cleaned everything to try and kick start a new cycle.
Since Wednesday I've used a full bottle of Fluval cycle meant to kick start cycle again with fish in - done this in both tanks (temp tank is 22ish ltr aqua one)
Since setting up the temp tank my guppies are ok. When they were in the main tank were crowding in a corner at the top gasping for air and not swimming, and a few died
In my main tank, the water parameters are confusing me I've got an API master test kit that I've been using for water testing. The temp tank is following the same patterns:
Tank test 09/09/2023
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrite - 0.25 ppm
Nitrate - 20 ppm
PH - 7.4
Tank test today 10th Sep:
Ammonia - 0.25 ppm
Nitrite - 0.25 ppm
Nitrate - approx. 5 ppm
Like I said I've been using the Fluval cycle, When the ammonia spiked I panicked and used some API ammonia lock.
My corries are happy at the moment, when I checked the tank this morning I found they had laid a lot of eggs, they do this a lot. My tetras seem fine too all swimming eating not showing signs of distress. My guppies in the temp tank are swimming around happily etc.
Any advice is welcome, other than stopping adding ammonia lock and adding beneficial bacteria daily & water changes I don't know what else to do. I feel like I've put a lot of beneficial bacteria liquid down the sink and I'm no closer to getting my guppies back into the main tank.