glennn Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Ok Have moved my fish today and currently have them in a holding tank (300 litre) moving large tank tomorrow and going to swap them back over My Plec looks all good as well as the corries but my loaches arnt looking good, floating around the tank, laying on bottom/side/ kind of wedged in loach hidy holes but this isnt normal behavior Ph is @ 6.5in tank, tap water is the same Ammonia 0 Nitrite <0.3 Nitrate between 5 and 10 Not too sure what to do, I could do a water change but water chemisty would stay the same! Half of the water thats in the tank is old water and half new water from here Anybody got any ideas please?? glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 If you have nitrite then when you do a water change the water chemistry won't stay the same. Nitrite is toxic to fish so you will have to get it back to zero. Do a 50% water change and make sure you add water conditioners to get rid of any chlorine or heavy metals. I assume you do have a filter running on the container? Did you acclimatise the fish when you added them. What was the pH of the previous tank and what temperature is the water at now compared to the original temperature of the tank they came from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennn Posted April 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Cheers Adrienne, Have water draining as we speak, Yeah I have my 2 fx5s running albeit turned down some what I did acclimatise but maybe not enough, Temp is the same from both tanks but dont know the previous ph as it was a sweet stable setup and stopped checking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Have you just moved within Masterton or are just changing to a bigger tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennn Posted April 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Moved with in Masterton, the plan was that they would go back in the larger one tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Oh okay. I just thought that a pH of 6.5 out of the tap was quite low but if you have only moved within Masterton its probably similar to what you have had in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennn Posted April 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Was on tank water before, now on mains Cheers Adrienne, water changed and a bit of movement, will do another in the morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 It is highly unlikely that your tap water is actually pH 6.5 as with the water that acidic it would cause dezincification of brass (all your taps would be dripping), corrosion of copper (your hot water cylinder and any copper pipes would be full of pin holes and water would be running all over the floor) and the phones at the council office would have melted with people ringing up to complain. Water supply authorities keep the water slightly alkaline for this reason. I would suggest you invest in a better pH testing kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennn Posted April 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Fair enough Alan will do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.