Hi again guys,
Just got a few questions please as I got spare few mins on the net!!
I have recently had 3 fish die in the space of about a week for no apparent reason (2 Bala sharks and a clown loach).
I took a water sample to be tested and everything is absolutly perfect and so these are the only things I see that might have caused the problem because all the fish have been happy for years previouslly...
I replaced my light bulb for a more powerful one when it blew which seems to have caused an increase in growth of algae, it is now a 30W power-glo.
I had a plant that seemed to be decaying quite rapidly and leaving dead leaves floating in the tank (I have now removed this but no idea if it was the problem). Another thing to mention here is that all my plants have seemed to develop a brown tinge recently and I do not know why, is this a sigh of something unhealthy?
This is the biggy!!! - In seems that on the opposite side of the tank from the filter outlet (where the bubbles pop) there is a cloudy opaque skin that develops every few days from scum on the surface which I have no idea how to stop (today I also spotted little black balls on it. I have tried filterpaper to skim off the scum but it doesn't work. At the moment a take of the skin as it forms with my net but this is really worrying me.
I am worried that my fish maybe ingesting some of this skin when they feed from the surface.
Thanks for you time, any ideas are greatly appriecated!!
Sam
Just got a few questions please as I got spare few mins on the net!!
I have recently had 3 fish die in the space of about a week for no apparent reason (2 Bala sharks and a clown loach).
I took a water sample to be tested and everything is absolutly perfect and so these are the only things I see that might have caused the problem because all the fish have been happy for years previouslly...
I replaced my light bulb for a more powerful one when it blew which seems to have caused an increase in growth of algae, it is now a 30W power-glo.
I had a plant that seemed to be decaying quite rapidly and leaving dead leaves floating in the tank (I have now removed this but no idea if it was the problem). Another thing to mention here is that all my plants have seemed to develop a brown tinge recently and I do not know why, is this a sigh of something unhealthy?
This is the biggy!!! - In seems that on the opposite side of the tank from the filter outlet (where the bubbles pop) there is a cloudy opaque skin that develops every few days from scum on the surface which I have no idea how to stop (today I also spotted little black balls on it. I have tried filterpaper to skim off the scum but it doesn't work. At the moment a take of the skin as it forms with my net but this is really worrying me.
I am worried that my fish maybe ingesting some of this skin when they feed from the surface.
Thanks for you time, any ideas are greatly appriecated!!
Sam