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Hi,
I'm pretty new in having an aquarium, so I'll probably have lots of questions in these coming months.
I set up a 10 gallon aquarium with 6 fish in it. 2 gold colored algae eaters, two black tetras, and two silver dollars. Everything went fine for a month. The water cleared up beautifully, I put a couple of plants in, so those little snails started to show up and everybody seemed happy and healthy. Until one of the silver dollars had a wound (I think) on it's side. After a day it looked scarry, it looked like it was covered with some white hairy stuff. After 2 more days it died. I got an other silver dollar, that's when everyone of my fishies started to get sick (not the algae eater though). There were no particular simptoms, no wounds, but they became disoriented and died the next morning. Now I only have one last black skirt tetra and the two algae eaters. But my tetra changed color. it looks like it lost part of the blackness in its fins. So part of it is black and part of it is clear.
I don't understand what I did wrong. If I have to start over, can I use bottled water instead of tap water? Would that be safer?
I'm pretty new in having an aquarium, so I'll probably have lots of questions in these coming months.
I set up a 10 gallon aquarium with 6 fish in it. 2 gold colored algae eaters, two black tetras, and two silver dollars. Everything went fine for a month. The water cleared up beautifully, I put a couple of plants in, so those little snails started to show up and everybody seemed happy and healthy. Until one of the silver dollars had a wound (I think) on it's side. After a day it looked scarry, it looked like it was covered with some white hairy stuff. After 2 more days it died. I got an other silver dollar, that's when everyone of my fishies started to get sick (not the algae eater though). There were no particular simptoms, no wounds, but they became disoriented and died the next morning. Now I only have one last black skirt tetra and the two algae eaters. But my tetra changed color. it looks like it lost part of the blackness in its fins. So part of it is black and part of it is clear.
I don't understand what I did wrong. If I have to start over, can I use bottled water instead of tap water? Would that be safer?