SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Ive had a nitrate (no2) in my tank. Ive done two separate water changes with no avail.ive lost on extreme bb and 2 shadow pandas smh. Should i move all shrimp out of tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Have you tried floaters to get it under control for now? Frogbit, hornwort, guppy grass, duckweed, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Do you know your ph? Did you airline siphon the new water in? What are you remineralizing your ro to,or are you using tap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 How old is your tank? Did you cycle it before adding shrimp? NO2 is nitrite, NO3 is nitrate. What are all your parameters (NO2, NO3, ammonia, pH, etc.)? Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Sarah, I just came back to the thread after reading the other post. SOT wrote "all are young tanks (less than a month old)." New Tank syndrome crossed my mind as well. sarah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 i don't have any of that on hand and we are in a blizzard right now(go figure). i have a few different mosses in there mineral rock cholla wood. two 30% water changes with ro water. even tried using some prime nothings working. its a 20g with 15 or so blue pandas and 25 bb. i dont think its them that causing the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 i cycled all tanks for two weeks prior to adding all other tanks are perfect even my 55g community tank that i don't keep a eye on I've been caring for fish for 10plus years. shrimps month or so. no3-0 no2-1.5-2 gh 5 kh2 ph 6.4-6.8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 and yeah Soothing i siphon water in and out when adding i do it 3 different intervals to avoid stress idk it that even helps. Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Okay, so let's help try to figure this out. Shrimping is a huge learning curve. When I first started I lost 9 tanks of shrimp. Just keep at it. It's very rewarding. You mentioned two 30% wc with ro. If the ro was not remineralized that would drop your gh pretty fast. Are you using co2? ferts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 no co2, the first change i used replenish from my lfs. waited a day and a half and no real improvment and did the second one and i didn't remineralize it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 tds is 220 i can't get it under200 for some reason didn't have to worry about it as much when breeding fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 i really hope i don't lose 9 tanks either!!!! if thats the case i need to sell these and do cheap rcs lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zodiac Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 so,a nitrite problem... even if you cycle a tank if you don't feed it ammonia both bacteria die and start growing again when ammonia is present. i guess you do what people do when they cycle a tank with fish. do water changes to keep the nitrite to under 1 ppm. treat with seahem prime every 2 days. then hope for the best. prime makes ammonia and nitrite less toxic up to 1 ppm. prime evaporates in 48 hours. be sure you remineralize the water when doing water changes. gh and kh should always be the same in the tank. SOTG402 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 ok thanks i usually always do but when i did the first one didn't do anything. i figured i try it without remineralize it. do you think i should place them in a different tank until i can stabilize it again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zodiac Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 wait a sec,you have a 55g fish tank. i assume it's cycled and aged? you could take media from the filter of the 55g and just add it to the shrimp tank. rocks,decorations,ect...would also work,all will have bacteria on it. if you add enough bacteria,the nitrites will drop to zero pretty quick. idk,maybe in a month you can remove it.there will be enough bacteria growth all over the tank. Soothing Shrimp, Wygglz and SOTG402 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTG402 Posted February 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 ya its been running for 5 years or so and awesome ill put some drift wood in there check on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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