Gilles
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- 29 Mar 2011
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lately I have lost a lot of amano shrimps. After talking to Chris Lukhaup (who i know personally) on a fair last weekend he told me that the Amano shrimps could suffer from a bacteria, especially since other fish didn't seem to be affected.
So yesterday i decided to uproot some plants while doing a water change. All of a sudden, most of my fish started swimming eradic (upside down, lying flat, shooting to the water surface) with no obvious reason. My filter was OFF during the uprooting to prevent dust going throughout my entire tank. I had not started filling the tank yet i was only draining it while uprooting plants at thesame time (to achieve that most of the dust would go to the toilet and not land on my plants)
After filling my tank all returned to normal but it is not sitting right with me. Dying shrimps (especially amano shrimps) mean there is something wrong since they are hard ass
Here are some details;
I do get some BGA on the substrate like i posted before on this forum. As an advice i then doubled my nitrate dosing but still i get some BGA once every while. So i'm dosing recommended EI but with double the Nitrates, My substrate is half year old akadama without any additives. My drop checker is yellow througout the day and my fish are fine with that. They are all swimming like they should.
Filter is a Fluval FX6, which is cleaned (rinsed) every 3-6 months; with a spraybar across the entire length of the tank facing forward and with enough holes in a diameter that matches the outflow capacity of the filter. I see all my plants slowly waving (also my foreground plants) which made me to assume i have enough flow.
Normally my fish are NOT swimming eradic, they are all fine, so i do NOT suspect CO2. I suspect the substrate that it contains certain byproducts that are harmfull for fish. Thinking about ammonium, ammonia, nitrite (haven't tested this).. What is your take on this? Since i did a large WC yesterday chances are that the harmfull concentrations are gone by now or are at least severly diffused...
Any tips are welcome...
So yesterday i decided to uproot some plants while doing a water change. All of a sudden, most of my fish started swimming eradic (upside down, lying flat, shooting to the water surface) with no obvious reason. My filter was OFF during the uprooting to prevent dust going throughout my entire tank. I had not started filling the tank yet i was only draining it while uprooting plants at thesame time (to achieve that most of the dust would go to the toilet and not land on my plants)
After filling my tank all returned to normal but it is not sitting right with me. Dying shrimps (especially amano shrimps) mean there is something wrong since they are hard ass
Here are some details;
I do get some BGA on the substrate like i posted before on this forum. As an advice i then doubled my nitrate dosing but still i get some BGA once every while. So i'm dosing recommended EI but with double the Nitrates, My substrate is half year old akadama without any additives. My drop checker is yellow througout the day and my fish are fine with that. They are all swimming like they should.
Filter is a Fluval FX6, which is cleaned (rinsed) every 3-6 months; with a spraybar across the entire length of the tank facing forward and with enough holes in a diameter that matches the outflow capacity of the filter. I see all my plants slowly waving (also my foreground plants) which made me to assume i have enough flow.
Normally my fish are NOT swimming eradic, they are all fine, so i do NOT suspect CO2. I suspect the substrate that it contains certain byproducts that are harmfull for fish. Thinking about ammonium, ammonia, nitrite (haven't tested this).. What is your take on this? Since i did a large WC yesterday chances are that the harmfull concentrations are gone by now or are at least severly diffused...
Any tips are welcome...