Filter killing my community fish

[CRUSHER]

i even had one of two corydoras stuck to the filter intake... his mouth was the main part that was stuck... the aqueon 55 has some good suction!
I need to make a list of what types of tetras I have in the tank... i did have some buenos aires tetras (5) in there but took them out and put them in with my big fish in the 100 gal they are doing great in there, the oscar, green terror, jack dempsey dont even bother with them.

[rmalford]

Aren't neons some of the less hardy variants of tetras? RIP penguin tetras.

[nightster]

My neons out lasted the penguins, I felt like an idiot trust me lol...

[aquabee]

I'd have to agree with the "something else is doing it" opinion. In thinking of things that naturally change at night, it's pretty much the oxygen content in the water and predatory activities. I once had a killer angelfish that only murdered neons at night. I'd wake up to several dead fish each morning that were stuck on the filter intake. But when the corys start dying too, it makes me think there's an oxygenation issue. I'm not sure how Flourish/Excel kills fish... I would think that a chemical contaminant would kill fish at any time of day or night, but if you're adding the chemicals in the morning, maybe it's taking until night to kill them? Not sure how all that would play in.

Q, you're lucky that your microrasboras haven't been sucked in! Mine were doing fine too, first batch and second batch, until I looked and saw that one of the new batch had been sucked in and then gotten stuck in one of the holes in the spray bar of the sponge filter!! So weird!
And sorry about your penguins nightster. Those are some cool lookin fish.

[rmalford]

My neons out lasted the penguins, I felt like an idiot trust me lol...

Never had problems with the penguins but I've lost more than a few neons before.

[Kiko]

your flourish dosing is prolly overkill.. depending on how much plants you have... alot of plant = daily flourish should be fine... a couple of plant= daily flourish is no bueno... plant co2 intake amount is prolly the key here...

[eklikewhoa]

Tot...
It does have a few plants plus a micro bubble wand. i pour a cap of Flourish Excel each morning. I do have a heater on each end of the tank and the killer filter is right next to one. Sad, i bought four neons to go with the only one i had and the next morning all four were on the filter and my only one was just swimming around looking for his new buddies... :(

A capful for a 55g doesn't seem like much.

[Totenkampf]

I dose 1.5 capful every other day for a 75g

[eklikewhoa]

I'm guessing I over do it then cause I use to dose that much for a 20g... the excel is organic so I imagine it would require a lot to become deadly.

[jwh0818]

I would only dose .6 ml for every gallon once a week but, everytime I dose I get tons of algae. Why

[aquabee]

I would only dose .6 ml for every gallon once a week but, everytime I dose I get tons of algae. Why

I have the same issue with my nano. Every time I dose, the BBA goes nuts!

[jwh0818]

I have the same issue with my nano. Every time I dose, the BBA goes nuts!

On top of that, I only dose flourish. I have quit using fert and I only use co2. The algae made a big impact on my plants, killed em off for the most part. 3 days 5 days ago, I pulled all leaves off my swords and added diy co2 and this is the progress since then (sorry for taking over this thread, I was confused)

[Totenkampf]

those are the immersed leaves and thats what you want!

[Totenkampf]

I'm guessing I over do it then cause I use to dose that much for a 20g... the excel is organic so I imagine it would require a lot to become deadly.

thats how much flourish is use, which is what i thought we have been talking about. the convo has been bouncing between that and excel. i would imagine the other ingredients in excel could be a problem eventually.

[jwh0818]

those are the immersed leaves and thats what you want!

And im only running a 24w 12k bulb