Background Info-
I have a 20g top fin set up tank that's been running with fish in it for about a month give or take a few days. In the beginning, I was testing the water and everything was fine. I had 5/6 bettas (I can't remember) in it and 5 mollies (I know it was risky to put so many fish in an uncycled tank.) In the tank, I have 2 amazon swords and a bit of java moss (all of those are recently added.) Just about a week ago I went to a fish store and saw the cutest fancy goldfish ever. He has buoyancy issues which are something that I really liked at first (I'm trying to fix it currently) I read that putting a goldfish in with higher temp. might help his swim bladder problems so once it gets better I will be removing him from the betta/molly tank and into his own. The temperature is steady at 79F. I have not tested the water recently. The goldfish does appear to have anchor worms which I am buying meds for him.
On to the question(ish)-
Last night one of my bettas looked like she was having serious troubles breathing but I thought nothing of it and went to bed. This morning she was dead on the bottom of the tank. I checked my other fish and noticed nothing unusual. A few hours later checked again and one of my bettas won;t use her left side fin, another betta looks like something took a big chunk out of her tail, another betta had a small grey spot on her. My last betta seemed fine. I left them to do more research to understand the problem. Like 6 hours later I checked on them again and each one of them seems to be very slow-moving (hanging around at the bottom) and the one with the grey spot had tripled in size. I immediately moved the 3 girls into a 5-gallon tank (I know this is way too small but it's for a short time) I did a 25% we on the 20g. I really don't know what to do for the bettas. I don't want them or my other fish to die. Does anyone know what the cause for all this may be??
I read that it may be the ammonia levels so I will be going to an LPS tomorrow and ask them to test my water for me. But in all honesty, I really don't believe that all this would be the cause of ammonia. Could the goldfish have brought all this??
Sorry for the long post!!
I have a 20g top fin set up tank that's been running with fish in it for about a month give or take a few days. In the beginning, I was testing the water and everything was fine. I had 5/6 bettas (I can't remember) in it and 5 mollies (I know it was risky to put so many fish in an uncycled tank.) In the tank, I have 2 amazon swords and a bit of java moss (all of those are recently added.) Just about a week ago I went to a fish store and saw the cutest fancy goldfish ever. He has buoyancy issues which are something that I really liked at first (I'm trying to fix it currently) I read that putting a goldfish in with higher temp. might help his swim bladder problems so once it gets better I will be removing him from the betta/molly tank and into his own. The temperature is steady at 79F. I have not tested the water recently. The goldfish does appear to have anchor worms which I am buying meds for him.
On to the question(ish)-
Last night one of my bettas looked like she was having serious troubles breathing but I thought nothing of it and went to bed. This morning she was dead on the bottom of the tank. I checked my other fish and noticed nothing unusual. A few hours later checked again and one of my bettas won;t use her left side fin, another betta looks like something took a big chunk out of her tail, another betta had a small grey spot on her. My last betta seemed fine. I left them to do more research to understand the problem. Like 6 hours later I checked on them again and each one of them seems to be very slow-moving (hanging around at the bottom) and the one with the grey spot had tripled in size. I immediately moved the 3 girls into a 5-gallon tank (I know this is way too small but it's for a short time) I did a 25% we on the 20g. I really don't know what to do for the bettas. I don't want them or my other fish to die. Does anyone know what the cause for all this may be??
I read that it may be the ammonia levels so I will be going to an LPS tomorrow and ask them to test my water for me. But in all honesty, I really don't believe that all this would be the cause of ammonia. Could the goldfish have brought all this??
Sorry for the long post!!
