Hello All,
I've been keeping my Freshwater Aquarium for a few years now & everything has been going great. Though my area recently had a power outage for several days & my heater, filters, etc. were not working. Ever since then, I've been having issues with my tank. Several of my fishes have become ill, & I'm becoming concerned with what's going on. I did some water quality tests, & barring any wrongdoing on my part, the results were shocking to me.
To break it down, I have very acidic water with a ph at or below 6.0
Rediculously high Ammonia (nearly 8.0 ppm)
Nitrite levels look good at 0 ppm even
Then we have the Nitrate levels at a paltry 80-160 ppm.
Needless to say this is a huge problem & I'm rather upset that it got this bad.
So to wrap it up, I just want some advice on what to do to clear up this issue. I don't want to cause more problems than I've already got trying to figure this out on my own, but I want to get my poor fishes back to when they were happy again!
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Doctor Marmalade
I've been keeping my Freshwater Aquarium for a few years now & everything has been going great. Though my area recently had a power outage for several days & my heater, filters, etc. were not working. Ever since then, I've been having issues with my tank. Several of my fishes have become ill, & I'm becoming concerned with what's going on. I did some water quality tests, & barring any wrongdoing on my part, the results were shocking to me.
To break it down, I have very acidic water with a ph at or below 6.0
Rediculously high Ammonia (nearly 8.0 ppm)
Nitrite levels look good at 0 ppm even
Then we have the Nitrate levels at a paltry 80-160 ppm.
Needless to say this is a huge problem & I'm rather upset that it got this bad.
So to wrap it up, I just want some advice on what to do to clear up this issue. I don't want to cause more problems than I've already got trying to figure this out on my own, but I want to get my poor fishes back to when they were happy again!
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Doctor Marmalade