Hi,
I’m really in a panic – I’ve had just had some new fish in my tank (30 litres) to build it up a bit – 3 clown loaches (purchased at the advice of the aquarium shop to get rid of some snails that turned up on a plant), 4 female guppies and 2 male guppies. They joined the 2 male guppies who were already in there. The water levels seem fine – the readings I got a few minutes ago are:
NO2 – 0.1 mg/L
pH – 7.5-8
NH3 – 0-0.6 mg/L
NO3 – 10-20 mg/L
I’m feeding them every 3 days, again as advised, and I can’t see ANY visible signs of illness on them, but they’ve started to die. A clown loach died a couple of days ago and I thought it was an anomaly. Then a male guppy died the next day. Just now I’ve fished out another clown loach and a female guppy. I can’t understand what it is. I found two of them (the guppies) against the filter inflow pipe, but I’ve never had a fish get sucked into it before and I’ve had that filter (an external one) for around 6 months now, so I can’t imagine it’s that.
Any ideas??? I’m a bit desperate…
Thanks
I’m really in a panic – I’ve had just had some new fish in my tank (30 litres) to build it up a bit – 3 clown loaches (purchased at the advice of the aquarium shop to get rid of some snails that turned up on a plant), 4 female guppies and 2 male guppies. They joined the 2 male guppies who were already in there. The water levels seem fine – the readings I got a few minutes ago are:
NO2 – 0.1 mg/L
pH – 7.5-8
NH3 – 0-0.6 mg/L
NO3 – 10-20 mg/L
I’m feeding them every 3 days, again as advised, and I can’t see ANY visible signs of illness on them, but they’ve started to die. A clown loach died a couple of days ago and I thought it was an anomaly. Then a male guppy died the next day. Just now I’ve fished out another clown loach and a female guppy. I can’t understand what it is. I found two of them (the guppies) against the filter inflow pipe, but I’ve never had a fish get sucked into it before and I’ve had that filter (an external one) for around 6 months now, so I can’t imagine it’s that.
Any ideas??? I’m a bit desperate…
Thanks