bio new
09-02-2004, 09:14 PM
Hello nice people here,
I m a new here. I have a 3 ft tank and using wet n dry filtration.
I have cycled my tank. Ammonia and nitrite read zero. Test kit is Sera.
Presently, I have 6 juvenile discus, looked like SS to me, bought from a LFS about 1 week ago. I feed them daily but not more than 3 times with homemade beefheart. The size of the beefheart is abt a normal dice.
At least 10% of WC is done daily before lights off.
Yesterday, I found one of them had clamp fins.
A quick test revealed that the ammonia shot northward tremendously.
I was panicked , and made at least 30% WC and put in abt two handful of table salt ( i smuggled it from my kitchen he he).
What went wrong? Cud it be because of the debris of uneaten beefheart which was left in the tank or the filtration could not take in amount of bio load of food that I gave to the discus?
Thank you.
I m a new here. I have a 3 ft tank and using wet n dry filtration.
I have cycled my tank. Ammonia and nitrite read zero. Test kit is Sera.
Presently, I have 6 juvenile discus, looked like SS to me, bought from a LFS about 1 week ago. I feed them daily but not more than 3 times with homemade beefheart. The size of the beefheart is abt a normal dice.
At least 10% of WC is done daily before lights off.
Yesterday, I found one of them had clamp fins.
A quick test revealed that the ammonia shot northward tremendously.
I was panicked , and made at least 30% WC and put in abt two handful of table salt ( i smuggled it from my kitchen he he).
What went wrong? Cud it be because of the debris of uneaten beefheart which was left in the tank or the filtration could not take in amount of bio load of food that I gave to the discus?
Thank you.