sirichmond
New Member
Hello all,
After one of our Platys had a little bit of skin/fungal damage on its mouth we started treating the tank with Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Melafix that we purchased from our LFS its a Antibacterial Fish Remedy for many ailments. its an all Natural product and contains tea tree and Melaleuca 1.0%, does'nt say what else it contains but the tank smells of albas oil now. We stated treating 3 days ago 5 tea spoons as it says 1 tea spoon per 38L as we have a 200litre tank thats enough for 190L. The Platy is getting much better the skin/fungal damage is going.
We took the carbon out of the filter as have read that removes medicine and been treating tank daily as its says on Medicine. Tonight we did out daily ammonia test and got 0 as usual and also Nitrirte and Nitrate which we do every 3 days. The Nitrite has increased from 0.1mg/l to 0.3mg/l which is just on the threshold before needing to do a water change according to our Nutrfin book that came with test. Nitrate has risen from 5mg/g to somewhere between 10 and 20mg/l again closing in on the threshold which is 50mg/l.
Does anyone know why these two are incresing? Is it natural or could the medicine or the fact that the carbon has been removed have anything to do with it.
Hope the post is not oo long winded.
Cheers
Simon
After one of our Platys had a little bit of skin/fungal damage on its mouth we started treating the tank with Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Melafix that we purchased from our LFS its a Antibacterial Fish Remedy for many ailments. its an all Natural product and contains tea tree and Melaleuca 1.0%, does'nt say what else it contains but the tank smells of albas oil now. We stated treating 3 days ago 5 tea spoons as it says 1 tea spoon per 38L as we have a 200litre tank thats enough for 190L. The Platy is getting much better the skin/fungal damage is going.
We took the carbon out of the filter as have read that removes medicine and been treating tank daily as its says on Medicine. Tonight we did out daily ammonia test and got 0 as usual and also Nitrirte and Nitrate which we do every 3 days. The Nitrite has increased from 0.1mg/l to 0.3mg/l which is just on the threshold before needing to do a water change according to our Nutrfin book that came with test. Nitrate has risen from 5mg/g to somewhere between 10 and 20mg/l again closing in on the threshold which is 50mg/l.
Does anyone know why these two are incresing? Is it natural or could the medicine or the fact that the carbon has been removed have anything to do with it.
Hope the post is not oo long winded.
Cheers
Simon