jmartin71
New Member
Here where my fish before the losses
Fish
3 Baby Tiger Barbs
2 Albino Barbs
3 Full Grown Adult Green Barbs
3 Adult Blue Gourami's
1 Clown Loach
So I come home from work all is good everybody seems fine by the time I change one of my albino barbs is stuck to the filter tube dead as a doornail so I remove him and then I go eat and I come back and a small tiger barb is in the same spot dead, W T F? So here is everything about the tank. Oh yea one other that changed from last week is that a few people on here recommended I remove the carbon from my filter so I did. Back to info:
So here is the info about my tank:
26 Gallon Bow Front
AquaticLife Dual Lamp Light
AquaClear 50 Filter
AquaClear 30 Under Gravel Pump
90 Days Old
Here is the last 2 tests,
3/27/11 test was done with a Red Sea Fresh Lab Deluxe
Water Change 4/27/11 (Weekly 20-25% changes)
Weekly Tests Done on Thursdays Results 3/31/01
Temp 26*C/79*F
PH 7.4-7.6 (used both high and low ph tests)
GH 10 (Med/Hard according to my test kit)
Chlorine 0 ppm
Nitrite .05 ppm
Ammonia 0 ppm
So I bought a new test kit as the other kit is a friend of mines. So I bought a API Freshwater Master Test Kit so I normally do tests every Thursday but with the 2 Barbs committing suicide I figured I would test today.
4/5/11 test was done with an API Freshwater Master Test Kit
Water Change 4/3/11 (Weekly 20-25%)
Temp 26*C/79*F
PH 7.4-7.6 (used both high and low ph tests)
GH 10 (Med/Hard according to Red Sea Kit API kit did not have test)
Chlorine 0 ppm (according to Red Sea Kit API kit did not have test)
Ammonia 4.0 ppm according to API Kit and 0.0 ppm according to Red Sea Kit. I got nervous and checked twice with other kit.
Nitrite 0.0 ppm
Nitrate 0.0 - 5.0 according to chart and color in the API kit.
Any suggestions on what I should do about ammonia and why the barbs did what they did?
Thanks in advance!
Jason
Fish
3 Baby Tiger Barbs
2 Albino Barbs
3 Full Grown Adult Green Barbs
3 Adult Blue Gourami's
1 Clown Loach
So I come home from work all is good everybody seems fine by the time I change one of my albino barbs is stuck to the filter tube dead as a doornail so I remove him and then I go eat and I come back and a small tiger barb is in the same spot dead, W T F? So here is everything about the tank. Oh yea one other that changed from last week is that a few people on here recommended I remove the carbon from my filter so I did. Back to info:
So here is the info about my tank:
26 Gallon Bow Front
AquaticLife Dual Lamp Light
AquaClear 50 Filter
AquaClear 30 Under Gravel Pump
90 Days Old
Here is the last 2 tests,
3/27/11 test was done with a Red Sea Fresh Lab Deluxe
Water Change 4/27/11 (Weekly 20-25% changes)
Weekly Tests Done on Thursdays Results 3/31/01
Temp 26*C/79*F
PH 7.4-7.6 (used both high and low ph tests)
GH 10 (Med/Hard according to my test kit)
Chlorine 0 ppm
Nitrite .05 ppm
Ammonia 0 ppm
So I bought a new test kit as the other kit is a friend of mines. So I bought a API Freshwater Master Test Kit so I normally do tests every Thursday but with the 2 Barbs committing suicide I figured I would test today.
4/5/11 test was done with an API Freshwater Master Test Kit
Water Change 4/3/11 (Weekly 20-25%)
Temp 26*C/79*F
PH 7.4-7.6 (used both high and low ph tests)
GH 10 (Med/Hard according to Red Sea Kit API kit did not have test)
Chlorine 0 ppm (according to Red Sea Kit API kit did not have test)
Ammonia 4.0 ppm according to API Kit and 0.0 ppm according to Red Sea Kit. I got nervous and checked twice with other kit.
Nitrite 0.0 ppm
Nitrate 0.0 - 5.0 according to chart and color in the API kit.
Any suggestions on what I should do about ammonia and why the barbs did what they did?
Thanks in advance!
Jason