TomO Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Since Sunday morning I've lost a dwarf Gourami, and adult Angel and a cory. My parameters aren't bad: pH is 7.5, Nitrites are .25 ppm, Nitrates are .5 ppm, KH is 180 and ammonia is .25 ppm. Those are the only tests I can run. I have test strips and an API Master kit. My weekly water changes occur every Saturday. My temperature is 76. This has only occurred in one tank. It's a new 75, It has 5 cherry barbs, 4 harlequin rasboras, 5 brilliant rasboras, 3 angels, 2 corys, another dwarf gourami and a dojo loach. Yesterday the dead angel didn't eat, and her belly was rounder than normal, but when I fished her out of the tank I gave it a little squeeze and eggs came out. The overall appearance of the water is a little cloudy. But I thought since it was a new tank this was normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFins Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Your ntirtrites and amonia are a bit high, they should be at 0. When did you stock this tank? when did you get the dead fish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Nitrites and ammonia are to high and are poisoning you fish nitrites and ammonia should 0 do small water changes daily and cut back on feeding API nitra-zorb filter pouch to put in filter will help low nitrites and ammonia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomO Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 The fish have been in the tanks for about 3 weeks, they have even spawned once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 You have put to many fish in the tank to quickly the tank is still cycling need to get ammonia and nitrites down as a priority or you will loses more fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomO Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 Should I make the angels to a different tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) You can move some fish to lower the bio load Edited December 15, 2020 by Colu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I can't help but wonder if something else is going on. While I agree they should be at zero, 0.25 ppm each of ammonia and nitrites shouldn't be killing your fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomO Posted December 16, 2020 Author Share Posted December 16, 2020 There isn’t any other marks, missing scales or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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