Phoenixfish
Fishaholic
got woke up this moring after having the worst weekend of my life ( family member died, squaters in one of the buildings we are doing up with drugs up till 2 friday and 12 last night ...in short im not a happy bunnyT.T)
and i go to turn the light on and theres a strong smell of rot and waste so i check the water and have high
NO2 and NO3(note the 3fish are still alive thank god)
so i do a 50% water change(by a gavel vacum), clean the blue filter material and then pull out the filter sucker thingy (systemised tank)(sorry bout laymans)
to find it covered in decomposing waste so i clean that off
but the water and general area still smell of waste etc
i have a 4.5 systemised tank with 1 bronze cory and 2 abino tiger barbs
( i also have had some new plants, mixed pots half of which have died off etc)
i plan to do another water change later on in say 6hours
have i done the correct thing?
how will i get the water pure and sweet again just keep at it?
note ive only had it runnig for a few weeks, with the help of TetraAqua Bactozym (a general bacteria booster and lowers new tank syn so that i could add fish in after 24 hours)
please reply back etc
L aka Phoenixfish
and i go to turn the light on and theres a strong smell of rot and waste so i check the water and have high
NO2 and NO3(note the 3fish are still alive thank god)
so i do a 50% water change(by a gavel vacum), clean the blue filter material and then pull out the filter sucker thingy (systemised tank)(sorry bout laymans)
to find it covered in decomposing waste so i clean that off
but the water and general area still smell of waste etc
i have a 4.5 systemised tank with 1 bronze cory and 2 abino tiger barbs
( i also have had some new plants, mixed pots half of which have died off etc)
i plan to do another water change later on in say 6hours
have i done the correct thing?
how will i get the water pure and sweet again just keep at it?
note ive only had it runnig for a few weeks, with the help of TetraAqua Bactozym (a general bacteria booster and lowers new tank syn so that i could add fish in after 24 hours)
please reply back etc
L aka Phoenixfish