Hello! We just got our first fish tank for our daughter’s birthday and are wanting to do the best we can to care for them well. We have two young female molly fish in a 5 gallon tank and a nerite snail, and we’ve had them since Saturday. Saturday and Sunday the fish and snail were active, busy, eating happily, and exploring the tank, but today they have been hiding behind/next to their heater and won’t come out even to eat.
At first I thought perhaps our tank was too cold. I double checked the temperature in their tank at four different points, and it was 77.5 F everywhere I checked. Do you have any other thoughts on what might be wrong and/or what I can do? We had our water tested on Saturday at the aquarium store before we got fish, and they said it looked great, and we did intentionally go to an aquarium store rather than a general pet store so that they could advise us well on tank, fish, food etc. Today, though, they are closed for the New Year.
At first I thought perhaps our tank was too cold. I double checked the temperature in their tank at four different points, and it was 77.5 F everywhere I checked. Do you have any other thoughts on what might be wrong and/or what I can do? We had our water tested on Saturday at the aquarium store before we got fish, and they said it looked great, and we did intentionally go to an aquarium store rather than a general pet store so that they could advise us well on tank, fish, food etc. Today, though, they are closed for the New Year.