Water Conditions,,How is This???

[Airwolf767]

I have a 75 gal tank with two emperor 400's. Tank was initially filled with well water and then I started doing water changes with straight RO. I lost a Blue Ram that was perfectly healthy (I think) after a water change. My friend gave me a bottle of Electro-Right to pour into the RO water when doing changes. I change 20% every 2-3 weeks. Tank has Angels, Kribensis, Blue Ram, Clown Loaches, Kuhli Loach............Am I doing the right thing?

Here are my water parameters:

Nitrate 10 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
GH 75ppm
KH 80ppm
PH 6.8-7.0 Hard to tell on the dip strip

Thank You in advance.

 

[smb]

Hi Airwolf767.

Sounds like you are doing everything pretty good. The filtration for a 75g that I think is the best is 2 Emperor 400's and you have that, so imo, it can't get better as long as it's not pushing the fish around the tank, that is, so I guess it depends on what fish you have.

The 10ppm Nitrates is good and of course 0ppm Nitrites is good. What is the level of your ammonia?

The KH, GH and pH all depends on the water params from where you bought the fish so I can't say if they are good or not.

I would recommend more than a 20% water change/gravel clean every 2-3 weeks for optimum results, imo. I realize that some do less and are very succesful but this is jmo.

I know I've probably already asked you this in the past but how long has this tank been set up?

Did you see any signs of illness with your ram before he passed? Did he eat like normal etc?

 

[Airwolf767]

Amonia is zero, tank has been up and running 6 months. That is what really suprised me the Ram ate well, blood worms, brine shrimp and some flake food. I feed a light feeding in the morn, flakes and maybee a loach tablet. Then in the evening I feed blood worms, etc. basically some type of frozen food with flakes. I did the water change in the afternoon and he was dead by evening, other one is still doing fine.

Thanks