Thanks to everyone for all the help and advise! I have another question about my 55 gallon tank. I had a huge spike in Nitrate it seems that this is what is killing my fish. Just when the tank is almost cycled I lose 2 or 3 of them. I was reading elsewhere on here what to do so I did a 50% water change today and the readings went from over 160ppm to just between 40 and 80ppm. Looks like I will have to do another big change. Should I do it tomorrow or wait for another day? I also have a lot of brown algae growing in the tank. I have cleaned it off the glass but didnt want to get all of it out so there is food for any algea eaters I am hoping to put in there in the next couple weeks. Should I clean it all off?
For those of you who may ask I am using prime and Stress Zyme at water change and the ammonia and nitrites are 0 but the ph is a little high at 7.2. I have a liquid test kit and the tank has been set up for about 4 months now. What I have left for fish: 2 black mollies, 2 zebra danios and 3 gold platys.
For those of you who may ask I am using prime and Stress Zyme at water change and the ammonia and nitrites are 0 but the ph is a little high at 7.2. I have a liquid test kit and the tank has been set up for about 4 months now. What I have left for fish: 2 black mollies, 2 zebra danios and 3 gold platys.