Zebra Nitrite Crisis :-O Few Options, What to do!??? :-/
Posted: 03 Jun 2003, 19:19
I need some opinions here on what I should do here. I got a Zebra plec last week. I put her into a new tank with a new filter with established water and gravel. Hoping to speed cycle it and give her a safe solitary home. I've been doing water changes every other day, not really testing anything. As I had thought all was well and good, being as she was alive, eating, and looked happy from what I could tel l. . . . . . .
Tested the water today and the Nitrite level was through the roof!! Not a shade of blue on the reading card to describe it. So I guess that brings me to the spikes probelms with an uncycled tank etc, I'm guessing?
Just did a huge water change in desperation.
So my options are.
A: Pull a few corys from the big tank, and bring them into the lil one to help keep all the uneaten food comsumed and and possibly keep the water more pure?
B: Possibly pull other fish and bring them into the zeb tank (would that even help matters?)
C: Do nothing at all but daily large water changes?
D: Put Lil Miss Zebra into the big established tank? ..what worries me about this is there's 8 corys looking for food 24/7 down there, zebra getting fed properly..etc.
PLEASE give me some advice, what you would do in this situation, ideas, etc. Thanxx
Tested the water today and the Nitrite level was through the roof!! Not a shade of blue on the reading card to describe it. So I guess that brings me to the spikes probelms with an uncycled tank etc, I'm guessing?
Just did a huge water change in desperation.
So my options are.
A: Pull a few corys from the big tank, and bring them into the lil one to help keep all the uneaten food comsumed and and possibly keep the water more pure?
B: Possibly pull other fish and bring them into the zeb tank (would that even help matters?)
C: Do nothing at all but daily large water changes?
D: Put Lil Miss Zebra into the big established tank? ..what worries me about this is there's 8 corys looking for food 24/7 down there, zebra getting fed properly..etc.
PLEASE give me some advice, what you would do in this situation, ideas, etc. Thanxx