drooke
Member
Hi all,
I've lost some fish recently, given the tank a clean out and done a 25%ish water change with HMA filtered water. It's looking bright and clean again.
On Saturday I went to buy some new fish and bought two Whiptails, two Cory Arcuantas (to add to my existing 4), six Congo Tetras and two Rabbit Snails.
I noticed that the Whiptails didn't really move yesterday and coming back from work tonight they're still in the same position and had died. The snails haven't really emerged from there shells either in the last day, not sure how to tell if they're okay. The corys and tetras seem happy though.
So I'm a bit gutted and would like the know if there's anything wrong with my water with these deaths and the earlier deaths of a couple of corys.
The tank is a big 350 litre Rena with an Eheim 2080 filter filled with Alfa Grog, Eheim Substrat Pro and some Purigen. I've never regenerated the Purigen yet but some is still white. It has a 300W Hydor external heater with tank temperature being 27C which stays constant. For Substrate I have Tropica Plant Substrate topped with play sand. I have mostly Amazon Swords and some floating Salvinia which regularly likes to take over the top of the tank. The substrate has been in now for about 3.5 years. I use a Devotedly Discus HMA 80-C three cartridge system for fresh water but I don't do many water changes. I have quite a low pH I believe at roughly 6, this is right on the boundary of the two test kits I have.
Looking up the common Whiptail species they should be fine in my pH and temperature water. I do take timein acclimating the fish also after their half an hour journey home from the shop, I open the bags and introduce a cup full of tank water 2/3 times every 5 minutes for about 15 minutes in total. I don't like to leave it longer as that seems to have caused me problems in the past.
Any help or advice appreciated. It makes me feel like giving up the hobby to be honest when I buy nice healthy looking fish get them home and they die a day or two later.
Thanks,
Dan
I've lost some fish recently, given the tank a clean out and done a 25%ish water change with HMA filtered water. It's looking bright and clean again.
On Saturday I went to buy some new fish and bought two Whiptails, two Cory Arcuantas (to add to my existing 4), six Congo Tetras and two Rabbit Snails.
I noticed that the Whiptails didn't really move yesterday and coming back from work tonight they're still in the same position and had died. The snails haven't really emerged from there shells either in the last day, not sure how to tell if they're okay. The corys and tetras seem happy though.
So I'm a bit gutted and would like the know if there's anything wrong with my water with these deaths and the earlier deaths of a couple of corys.
The tank is a big 350 litre Rena with an Eheim 2080 filter filled with Alfa Grog, Eheim Substrat Pro and some Purigen. I've never regenerated the Purigen yet but some is still white. It has a 300W Hydor external heater with tank temperature being 27C which stays constant. For Substrate I have Tropica Plant Substrate topped with play sand. I have mostly Amazon Swords and some floating Salvinia which regularly likes to take over the top of the tank. The substrate has been in now for about 3.5 years. I use a Devotedly Discus HMA 80-C three cartridge system for fresh water but I don't do many water changes. I have quite a low pH I believe at roughly 6, this is right on the boundary of the two test kits I have.
Looking up the common Whiptail species they should be fine in my pH and temperature water. I do take timein acclimating the fish also after their half an hour journey home from the shop, I open the bags and introduce a cup full of tank water 2/3 times every 5 minutes for about 15 minutes in total. I don't like to leave it longer as that seems to have caused me problems in the past.
Any help or advice appreciated. It makes me feel like giving up the hobby to be honest when I buy nice healthy looking fish get them home and they die a day or two later.
Thanks,
Dan