Hi there aye have 8 foot 264 gallon tank with 2 fx6 filters aye have 3 plecos 3 Oscar's 2 dempseys a devil and 2 jags and 2 blood parrots. I had a problem with ammonia in my tank what aye have resolved now but cant seem to get my nitrates down everything else is fine now my parrot laying on bottom of tank breathing fine just not himself so is my devil and Dempsey cichlid any ideas aye do half tank water changes weekly and youse sechem prime as a conditioner aye have tried double dosing the tank aswell not changed anything my fish are all large do you think it is too many fish and my filters cant break down the nitrates quick enough any ideas
Parrot fish laying on bottom of tank
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+1 You have too many fish that produce a lot of waste the Oscars and Pleco's are 2 of the species. Also would suggest replacing the Canister Filters with a Sump. Also Cannister Filters are Nitrate producing due too the grude that can build up in them over time.
The tank has been set up for year and half now got all my fish as young but they are now all pretty big my Oscar's are 12 inch zebra about 10 so are most of my fish the ph is perfect ammonia is perfect nitrite is perfect nitrate is through the roof really bad aye do half tank changes every week that tank has been fine up untill the last 2 or 3 weeks noticed the rise in ammonia and nitrate so got the ammonia under control but cant seem to do the same with nitrate Iam going to se up my other tank and put the devil the 2 parrots and the Dempsey in it and a few others do you think it could be two many big fish my tank runs on 2 fx6 filters the fx6 filters 3500 litres of water an hour aye have 2 of them more than enough filtration for a tank my size iam just stuck now and the devil and Dempsey and parrot fish all seem to be hiding laying on bottom of tank the bigger fish are totally fine the Oscar's and zebra pleco jags ect thanks again
Thank you for you're answers iam going to get rid of a few of my fish into another tank today iam no in the position to get a tank with a sump tight at the moment so going to have to stick with the filters at the moment aye am going to get rid of a lot of the fish into another tank then find them forever homes I kind of thought this was the case as when ayr got them all as babies everything was fine now there all bigger am getting these problems thank you
I was doing half tank water changes weekly for a while but spoke to people at the aquarium shop and they said just do 25% weekly so did for a while but going to go back to 50% changes with my filtration and water changes aye thought that would be plenty but it's not any more but makes sense as the fish are a lot bigger now
