A Battle with my tank. At last the problem is getting better

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  1. Stalker

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    For the last 4weeks I've been battling to get my tank water correct for my fish and forpeople not to get sinusitis, flu, fever, monster headaches, vomiting and itburns your eyes like fire. That is what my tropical fish tank is doing topeople in general. I’ve done up to 2 water changes a week to get the problemfixed and it just kept on getting worst.

    Now what is the problem? The problem is the vacuum cleaner. As there was astone in the vacuum cleaner, it didn't had the power to vacuum all the fish pooand left over food up. The bomb exploded with a ammoniac spike that will knockyou off your feet.

    Didn't matter how many times I've done water changes, it just got worst. TodayI went to a pet shop and they tested the water. The water was fine, but the teston the ammoniac was greener than the lawn outside, it was supposed to be verylight yellow to clear.

    They inspected my filter system and did a small upgrade to improve thebiological filter and mechanical filter.

    I got home to do a water change again and started to vacuum the tank, somehowthe pipe pulled out of the vacuum and I saw the stone. After removing the stonethe vacuum cleaned better than ever before and i vacuumed the tank so good andclean.

    After I added the new water I saw a change in the fish, they were active againand looked happy. The new problem is 2 off my Angels is fighting for a femaledirectly after the water change.

    I almost ended in hospital because of the ammoniac bomb in my room.

     
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    OOOOoooooppppppsssss. Thanks for the warning on that! At least you seem to have the problem sorted out and it didn't result in major hospitalisation or sickness on a super grand scale...

    Regarding the Angels, if the fighting is causing bodily harm then I would remove one of the males in the mean time. Otherwise just let them bicker it out and see what happens if it is not too serious. Try make sure that there is enough room and 'division' for both males to live semi-amicably in the tank.

    HTH.
     
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    I've got way to many Angels in my tank. These 2 Angels is been fighting for months and then they are happy with each other till there is big changes in the tank or you add fish.
     

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