Just thought I would share this with you as it is quite amazing how these fish survived.
A friend of mine moved into a flat that his sister had been staying in, as after she got devorced she was too busy to clean the place and moved back in with her mom. In the flat she left a fish tank that used to belong to her husband.
Since he moved out six months ago the tank hasn't been cleaned at all.
So he called me and asked to come around and have a look, and help him sort it out.
The tank is a 250L tank with three large oscars in it they have been over fed and the tank looked like and smelled like a drain pipe, the canister filter was disgusting and the fish looked like they were about to die.
We done a massive clean out and the fish survived and a week later are looking much better and swimming around again.
Heres the crazy part.
The nitrate were zero the nitrites were zero and the ammonia was of the chart. Over 10mg/l in my tank this test has never measured over 0.010.
A friend of mine moved into a flat that his sister had been staying in, as after she got devorced she was too busy to clean the place and moved back in with her mom. In the flat she left a fish tank that used to belong to her husband.
Since he moved out six months ago the tank hasn't been cleaned at all.
So he called me and asked to come around and have a look, and help him sort it out.
The tank is a 250L tank with three large oscars in it they have been over fed and the tank looked like and smelled like a drain pipe, the canister filter was disgusting and the fish looked like they were about to die.
We done a massive clean out and the fish survived and a week later are looking much better and swimming around again.
Heres the crazy part.
The nitrate were zero the nitrites were zero and the ammonia was of the chart. Over 10mg/l in my tank this test has never measured over 0.010.