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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / March 2008I'm Happy With My Gouramis...BUT
They are much more hardy than Goldfish..and they are labyrinth so they can breathe oxygen. The water is crystal clear at last. The only problem is the ammonia level is off the wall. I have to do water changes almost every night, and even after I change like 90% of the water, the card still reads a dark green! WHY? Will the ammonia level ever drop down? > They are much more hardy than Goldfish..and they are labyrinth so they > can breathe oxygen. The water is crystal clear at last. The only problem [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > WHY? Will the ammonia level ever drop down? Maybe.maybe not. Your still dealing with a small tank and an overly inefective undergravel filter I assume. Undergravel filters are a trap for junk which produces ammonia. And all fish breath oxygen, they just get it in different ways.............To be honest, IMHO a gold fish is very hardy.......and IMHO your skating onthe edge by having labryinth fish as if it or any other had to assimilate its o2 intake OUT of the water they wold have died. This is not a sign that gouramis are more hardy by any means, and its not how fish are really judged to be hardy or not. The ammonia levels can certainly catch up and burn the fishs gills and yes they do have gills, as well as possibly cause more problems with pathogens that are deadly to any fish be it a labrinth type or not. Yeah.....that small tank and that stupid undergravel filter. Do you recommend the Aqua Clear hang on the back filter? I keep adding AmmoLock to the water every other night, cause the ammo levels are scary. Gosh, changing 90% of water, you think would at least help a BIT. Yeah, I do see some buried crap under that stupid filter. Should I maybe not use ANY gravel? Why is the water finally so clear, if the ammonia is so high? > Yeah.....that small tank and that stupid undergravel filter. Do you > recommend the Aqua Clear hang on the back filter? I keep adding AmmoLock [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Why is the water finally so clear, if the ammonia is so high? No relationship between the two. Water can have ammonia, nitrite and nitrates off the scale and still be clear. My personal preference in hob filters is the Aqua Clear simply because its been around so long and its a tired and true design that works and is so simple and quick and cheap to maintain...........There are lots of good hob filters out there but they will nickle and dime you to death on keeping them supplied with filter media as well as cleaning them. You should just not have to add that amount of ammo lock. I personally have never used one drop of the stuff in my life. Its plain to see with high ammonia you simply do not have any conversion to nitrite to nitrate going on which is the sign of a healthy system. Its like you have a perpetually cycling aquarium. Get a AC40 or better yet a 70 and a 10 gal tank at a minimum YEA! Tonight the ammonia level dropped down! Far from perfect, but it's dropping! Thanks for your advice. I want the Aqua filter and a bigger tank. Lu clear tank or pond water is a danger sign. it means everything is dead, the bacteria and the algae. Sometimes when I had tanks (and UGF) I would get a nitrate problem from rotting vegetation and would have to draw the water down to a few inches, then run water in one side and out the other. I had a couple rubbermaids I used for this, run the water into one, add the dechlor, then pump it out. http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/care/hardware.html#AGING once I got rid of the gravel I didnt have that problem. Ingrid >Yeah.....that small tank and that stupid undergravel filter. Do you >recommend the Aqua Clear hang on the back filter? I keep adding AmmoLock [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Why is the water finally so clear, if the ammonia is so high? |
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