Showing posts with label neons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neons. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Recovering from low oxygen

Increasing the air input yesterday seems to have helped the tank to regain it's balance. I did the water quality tests just before a 20% water change and the Nitrite was back to zero. I can only assume that lowering the air input lowered the oxygen (hence the shrimps at the top of the tank with the Guppies and the Danios being a lot quieter) and this affected the bacteria also. Makes sense, I suppose.

Unfortunately, the shrimp is no longer carrying eggs. Even I am not optimisitic enough to hope they all hatched and are hiding - I think that she was removing them yesterday as I was trying to recover the oxygen levels. Maybe as the Oxygen dropped the levels got too low for the eggs and they died - just days before they should have been ready to hatch.

Unfortunately, it also looks lile the white spot is back! The halfbeak seems clear - he usually shows new spots on Wednesdays though so we'll see tomorrow. This time two of the Neons seem to have tiny whitespots. Will I ever get the tanks sorted and running happily?