Hi,
My tank is 6 months old now and has been running perfectly well, all my readings are good, Nirtate 0pm, Amonia 0pm, Nitrite 0pm. We have been on hol, for a week and while we were away, the children fed the fish, they are 20 and 21 years old so were given good instructions. The tank is a 300lite Jewel Corner unit and has well adequate external filtration. The temperature is normally a rock steady 23 but has crept up to 27.
The tank has the following fish left in it, 5 red eye tetra, 4 silver sharks, 2 silver dollars, 2 salefin mollies, 7 mollies, 4 tiger barbs, 2 male guppies, 1 plec (died this morning) 2 plattys, 7 neon tetras, we have had all these fish quite a while and have built them up over the months.
Yesterday a tiger barb died, there appeared to be no obvious sighns of ilness, theday before a molly died, again no obvious sighn of ill health, most upsetting was my pleck dieing in the night, he normally comes out at night about half hour after lights out, i saw him 2 days ago and thought he looked welll good, but this morning he was on the bottom of the tank, again no obvious sighns of ill health.
I,m a little concerned about the recent spate of dead fish, is it the raise in temperature that is my problem, i have done 25 percent water change. The only other clue i can give is my plants don't seem to be doing so well, i have changed 3 yesterday, but they need to get established, the others were badly eaten over the last couple of days
My tank is 6 months old now and has been running perfectly well, all my readings are good, Nirtate 0pm, Amonia 0pm, Nitrite 0pm. We have been on hol, for a week and while we were away, the children fed the fish, they are 20 and 21 years old so were given good instructions. The tank is a 300lite Jewel Corner unit and has well adequate external filtration. The temperature is normally a rock steady 23 but has crept up to 27.
The tank has the following fish left in it, 5 red eye tetra, 4 silver sharks, 2 silver dollars, 2 salefin mollies, 7 mollies, 4 tiger barbs, 2 male guppies, 1 plec (died this morning) 2 plattys, 7 neon tetras, we have had all these fish quite a while and have built them up over the months.
Yesterday a tiger barb died, there appeared to be no obvious sighns of ilness, theday before a molly died, again no obvious sighn of ill health, most upsetting was my pleck dieing in the night, he normally comes out at night about half hour after lights out, i saw him 2 days ago and thought he looked welll good, but this morning he was on the bottom of the tank, again no obvious sighns of ill health.
I,m a little concerned about the recent spate of dead fish, is it the raise in temperature that is my problem, i have done 25 percent water change. The only other clue i can give is my plants don't seem to be doing so well, i have changed 3 yesterday, but they need to get established, the others were badly eaten over the last couple of days
