I have no idea why it's so high, never had a prob before. I will do another w/c tonite too. When I woke up this morning he was back to his old spot, back to eating and preying again, and seems perfectly fine now, his legs appear to be healing, but not sure about the hole in the top. Apparently the stuff I did last night helped somewhat or he would still be acting 1/2 dead. The tank is clean, sand is clean, nothing is dead, so I don't know what it could be. I read that someone said they used some sort of mesh bags for nitrate, does that work?
My perimeters are: Ph 8.0 , ammonia .25 , nitrite 0, nitrate is really high, like the highest it shows on the chart. 1) Don't know about predator attack, had him for at least 5 months w/ current fish, no one ever bothers him, 2) definitely not distended disk syndrome as I watch him eat every time I feed him and never give him too much. Apparently my nitrates could be the huge problem! Also, when I inherited him from the people I bought the tank from they told me they kept the salinity at 1.026 so I have always kept it there and no one seems adversely affected. Is that too high, they said when it was lower he was turning brown. He now has an eaten away part on 2 of his legs in the middle that weren't there yesterday. I have since used AmQuel + and "cycle" tonight and did a 10g water change, tested and retested and nothing has changed. Now I really don't know what else to do. :help: