Dealing with Ich and High NO3
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:41 am
Hi all,
My first post here... I have 2 tanks and have a wide variety of fish but my favourite are 8 clown loaches which I've had for well over a year. Almost overnight they were covered in whitespot and I tried treating them straight away with Ich Gaurd II for scaleless fish. Within 2 days I had lost all my loaches and a few other fish. The 3 Yoyo loaches survived??
I have just spotted a couple of spots on one of my clown loaches in my other tank a few minutes ago and wondered what to do.
I also used the 6 in 1 Tetra test strips and both tanks recroded the same values...
Cl2 - 0
pH - 6.8
Kh - 6
GH - 8
NO2 - 0
NO3 - 100 mg/l
I have tried doing a couple of 25% water changes but the NO3 remains high. What causes the NO2 to be zero but the NO3 to be so high?
Many thanks in advance
p.s. the active ingredients for Ich Gaurd II are Formalin (37%), victoria green, nitromersol, acriflavine.
I have also tried Tetra ContraSpot in the past (in haf recommended dosage), also with little success.
My first post here... I have 2 tanks and have a wide variety of fish but my favourite are 8 clown loaches which I've had for well over a year. Almost overnight they were covered in whitespot and I tried treating them straight away with Ich Gaurd II for scaleless fish. Within 2 days I had lost all my loaches and a few other fish. The 3 Yoyo loaches survived??
I have just spotted a couple of spots on one of my clown loaches in my other tank a few minutes ago and wondered what to do.
I also used the 6 in 1 Tetra test strips and both tanks recroded the same values...
Cl2 - 0
pH - 6.8
Kh - 6
GH - 8
NO2 - 0
NO3 - 100 mg/l
I have tried doing a couple of 25% water changes but the NO3 remains high. What causes the NO2 to be zero but the NO3 to be so high?
Many thanks in advance
p.s. the active ingredients for Ich Gaurd II are Formalin (37%), victoria green, nitromersol, acriflavine.
I have also tried Tetra ContraSpot in the past (in haf recommended dosage), also with little success.