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I've put this in free for all because it is for my tropical tank and not my axie tank. I bought an 'established' trop tank last week with fish, etc, brought home 60% of the water roughly but everything was filthy, think thick brown sludge... There were 5 filters in there that were all clogged up, it's only a 2ft. Anyhoo, after cleaning it today (not had a chance before now because of work and exams) I ended up doing a 75% ish change because the water after all the scrubbing was vile. Put 40L of clean tap water, added the correct seachem prime dosage and tested the readings as I expected them to be a tad off perfect since the sand had been stirred up. The ammonia was at 1 and the nitrite was darker than 5 so I took all the water out and did a 90% change again. Tested the readings, the ammonia is 0.5 now but the nitrite is still over 5!
Meanwhile my poor fish are sat in a 1ft tank with their temp dropping. I've never had this issue with the axies and I know there are a lot of clued up people here with aquatics so thought this was a good place to ask. I really don't have the time to do another 90% change, let alone more. Is there any quick fix for this? i.e if I add a double or triple dose of seachchem prime to the water, would it help bring my readings down? I don't want to lose my new fish, especially not my three cat fish. I didn't realise the tank would be this bad, it didn't look good but I figured a large change would do the job
Meanwhile my poor fish are sat in a 1ft tank with their temp dropping. I've never had this issue with the axies and I know there are a lot of clued up people here with aquatics so thought this was a good place to ask. I really don't have the time to do another 90% change, let alone more. Is there any quick fix for this? i.e if I add a double or triple dose of seachchem prime to the water, would it help bring my readings down? I don't want to lose my new fish, especially not my three cat fish. I didn't realise the tank would be this bad, it didn't look good but I figured a large change would do the job