Help Me, ???
I got 15 gallon tank and it is already cycling about two weeks. the first week I did all the necessary things such as removing chlor and etc.. w/ water conditioner and put some stress zyme. I have one driftwood, 24" bubble wall, one whisper compact filter, one guppy, one black tetra, one male betta, one neon tetra and, one ember tetra, these fish for cycling my tank. after one week then I decided to have a flourite gravel in my tank for future plants so I bought one bag flourite and one little bag of regular gravel, washed them and mixed the gravel in the tank, my water became very muddy, luckily I already moved the fish w/ some of the water from the tank ;D. after one day it cleared a bit ..then I changed 50% of the water w/ my tap water and put water conditioner to the tap, stabilized the KH&GH w/ the tank water and the water become clear the next day and the fish were back to the tank.
the thing that always bothering me is why when I get back home at 9.00 pm, when I turn on the hood light, the fish seems to be stressed and not active and they lose color, the neon back became kinda black and lose it's blue and red color, the same w/ the black tetra but w/ no blackish back. but after turning on the light about 15-20 minutes they regain their true color, can somebody tell me what's wrong? ( there is no algae).
and this happened before when I had a 3 or 5 cardinal tetras, the symptoms are the same w/ my neon, also the female betta became blind! because their eye membrane damaged! they are doing well until I removed all of my plants because they don't thrive, but before I had the chance to remove the fish (cardinals and the bettas) they are all gone in three or four days I think. I don't know what's the real McCoy because I think the first accident cause by the KH. It is too low ( My tap is very low on KH and high on PH !!!) and I think the ph swing Very fast.
but this time I redone the tank and have all the chemistry going well, like Ph at 7.2 w/ KH at 7-8 and th GH is at 8 ammonia is at 0.25 avg. no nitrite, I don't know the nitrate level. but the symsptoms come back. Is this because of the cycling is not completely stabil? and can you tell me if the first accident w/ the cardinals is because I removed the Plants and the water had very low KH? did any of you have experienced this? ???
Thank you.
I got 15 gallon tank and it is already cycling about two weeks. the first week I did all the necessary things such as removing chlor and etc.. w/ water conditioner and put some stress zyme. I have one driftwood, 24" bubble wall, one whisper compact filter, one guppy, one black tetra, one male betta, one neon tetra and, one ember tetra, these fish for cycling my tank. after one week then I decided to have a flourite gravel in my tank for future plants so I bought one bag flourite and one little bag of regular gravel, washed them and mixed the gravel in the tank, my water became very muddy, luckily I already moved the fish w/ some of the water from the tank ;D. after one day it cleared a bit ..then I changed 50% of the water w/ my tap water and put water conditioner to the tap, stabilized the KH&GH w/ the tank water and the water become clear the next day and the fish were back to the tank.
the thing that always bothering me is why when I get back home at 9.00 pm, when I turn on the hood light, the fish seems to be stressed and not active and they lose color, the neon back became kinda black and lose it's blue and red color, the same w/ the black tetra but w/ no blackish back. but after turning on the light about 15-20 minutes they regain their true color, can somebody tell me what's wrong? ( there is no algae).
and this happened before when I had a 3 or 5 cardinal tetras, the symptoms are the same w/ my neon, also the female betta became blind! because their eye membrane damaged! they are doing well until I removed all of my plants because they don't thrive, but before I had the chance to remove the fish (cardinals and the bettas) they are all gone in three or four days I think. I don't know what's the real McCoy because I think the first accident cause by the KH. It is too low ( My tap is very low on KH and high on PH !!!) and I think the ph swing Very fast.
but this time I redone the tank and have all the chemistry going well, like Ph at 7.2 w/ KH at 7-8 and th GH is at 8 ammonia is at 0.25 avg. no nitrite, I don't know the nitrate level. but the symsptoms come back. Is this because of the cycling is not completely stabil? and can you tell me if the first accident w/ the cardinals is because I removed the Plants and the water had very low KH? did any of you have experienced this? ???
Thank you.
