apinkmanatee
Aquarium Advice Activist
My husband is a caretaker at our apartment building. Today he went to clean out an apartment that someone moved out of a few months ago. There were two fish tanks in there, without filters or heaters running, with fish still in them. Half were dead, the other half were swimming around in green water. There are a few chichlids still living, and another fish that I don't know what it is...I don't really do freshwater. It's large and black and looks like its a bottom feeder of some kind. He is not doing well, he is just laying at the bottom corner of the tank. They put fresh water in there, with conditioner, and turned the filter and heater on. Is there anything else we can do for these fish? I know we are probably going to have to change the water every day because I doubt the tank is cycled since its just been sitting. Also, I don't know what kind of chichlids these are but they are pretty big. The tank looks to be about 30 gal (the other tank, all the fish were dead). So sad!! Who would do that?