Hi all,
My daughter received a new 10 gallon tank with 5 glofish tetra fish yesterday for her birthday from a well meaning and responsible but perhaps oblivious aunt. I don't know much about keeping fish either but have been reading up like crazy in the last 24 hours or so. 4/5 of the fish seem to be doing fine, but one has gone very motionless, lying on top of the aquarium decorations. If I prod it, it can move but will go still after a short while and just drifts back down. Its poor gills flutter rapidly in bursts.
I asked the aunt about how this was all setup, and she had taken some advice from the pet store guy and rinsed tank, gravel, decorations with warm water and no soap. She included a bottle of API Quick Start and Searchem Prime that she was sold along with the tank, and said she had put in the prescribed amounts. She also floated the bag in the water for 20 minutes, poured some water from the tank in for 5 minutes and then put the fish into the tank. The fish have been in tank about 36 hours now.
All of this SOUNDS ok to me as a novice, except that I understand that this tank should have been keep for weeks with water cycled to build up good bacteria.
I bought an API water test kit to see how everything is doing. It's a little subjective, but ammonia test looks totally yellow to me, i.e. 0 ppm. MAYBE the next level at .25 ppm but I really don't think so. Nitrate and Nitrite are clearly 0. pH is 7.6. Temperature is 78 degrees.
I put some more Prime and Quick Start in, hopefully no harm in that. I am thinking to do a 25% water change, but not sure what else to do at this point. Is there anything I can do to save our new little friend?
Thank you for reading!
My daughter received a new 10 gallon tank with 5 glofish tetra fish yesterday for her birthday from a well meaning and responsible but perhaps oblivious aunt. I don't know much about keeping fish either but have been reading up like crazy in the last 24 hours or so. 4/5 of the fish seem to be doing fine, but one has gone very motionless, lying on top of the aquarium decorations. If I prod it, it can move but will go still after a short while and just drifts back down. Its poor gills flutter rapidly in bursts.
I asked the aunt about how this was all setup, and she had taken some advice from the pet store guy and rinsed tank, gravel, decorations with warm water and no soap. She included a bottle of API Quick Start and Searchem Prime that she was sold along with the tank, and said she had put in the prescribed amounts. She also floated the bag in the water for 20 minutes, poured some water from the tank in for 5 minutes and then put the fish into the tank. The fish have been in tank about 36 hours now.
All of this SOUNDS ok to me as a novice, except that I understand that this tank should have been keep for weeks with water cycled to build up good bacteria.
I bought an API water test kit to see how everything is doing. It's a little subjective, but ammonia test looks totally yellow to me, i.e. 0 ppm. MAYBE the next level at .25 ppm but I really don't think so. Nitrate and Nitrite are clearly 0. pH is 7.6. Temperature is 78 degrees.
I put some more Prime and Quick Start in, hopefully no harm in that. I am thinking to do a 25% water change, but not sure what else to do at this point. Is there anything I can do to save our new little friend?
Thank you for reading!