New Water

Today Eric and I just took 2 buckets of dirty water out of the tank so it can be replaced with 2 buckets of water that each had 1 cap of chlorine water conditioner.

night out

I put 1 tsp of nightout in the tank.

amenoia testing

Yesterday we tested the ammonia and it was dark green which means the fish intestines are slowly shutting down they could die soon.

Josh testing for nitrites.  Nitrites can form from nitrifying bacteria that may develop in the tank.  The nitrites form from ammonia, from fish waste.  Both ammonia and nitrites can be poison to the fish.  Nitrates can then be converted to nitrates by other bacteria. Nitrates are not so bad.

Jeremy Whalen, Macie's dad, who works for Fish and Wildlife, teaches us how to siphon off waste to reduce ammonia levels.  It's tricky not to also siphon up the fish!

Ammonia

The Ammonia this week has been very, very high.  8.0 ppm.  We have been changing the water 4-5 times but the Ammonia has stayed the same.  The normal Ammonia level is 0.0.  That is the test that we did today, 4/7/17.  Ammonia is caused by to much of the fishes waste.  We are hoping the Ammonia level will lower.  

Feeding the fish!

We just fed the fish, with a pinch of food in each net. In one net we made a new bottom, to allow food through so it doesn't clog the net up. The fish ate and so far none are dead that we know of.

fish update

I do the PH test for the fish. The PH is the amount of acid in the tank, the usual PH is 7.0-7.2. If the PH is above 7.2 or lower than 7.0 the fish will slowly start dying. To maintain the usual PH you should clean out the tank daily and every once a while change the water.



Today's PH is 7.2.   :)