Hey everyone! I feel like I'm posting a question almost every other day, so I apologize but I've got another one...
So I believe the cycling of my tank has finished with ammonia at 0, nitrites at 0, and nitrates hovering around 20ppm. It's been steady for the past week, so I was hoping to add in some fish. Unfortunately my last goldfish wound up dead this morning, and I'm concerned that the tank really isn't ready for fish. I had 3 others die over the past 5 weeks but i had attributed those deaths to either ammonia or nitrite poisoning. Now with this one dead I was wondering if it has anything to do with the high alkalinity of the water (300ppm).
I've been doing research all day but I didn't really stumble upon anything that linked high KH to the deaths of fish. Is there something I'm missing? Also, after soaking my drift wood for several weeks, I finally put it in. The water is very subtly yellow, but could this also have had an impact on the KH or my last fish?
So I believe the cycling of my tank has finished with ammonia at 0, nitrites at 0, and nitrates hovering around 20ppm. It's been steady for the past week, so I was hoping to add in some fish. Unfortunately my last goldfish wound up dead this morning, and I'm concerned that the tank really isn't ready for fish. I had 3 others die over the past 5 weeks but i had attributed those deaths to either ammonia or nitrite poisoning. Now with this one dead I was wondering if it has anything to do with the high alkalinity of the water (300ppm).
I've been doing research all day but I didn't really stumble upon anything that linked high KH to the deaths of fish. Is there something I'm missing? Also, after soaking my drift wood for several weeks, I finally put it in. The water is very subtly yellow, but could this also have had an impact on the KH or my last fish?
