My tank was gift to my partner who isn't interested in looking after it, just looking at it. It's a 16 gallon fish box (uk). I just set it up according to the instructions with Filterstart and Stresscoat. after a week I went to get some fish, I know now how wrong this was. I started with pelican tetras, they were fine, then a few weeks later I got 5 neons, one pelican turned into a bully, I took him back and swapped him for a neon, another pelican tuned into a bully, while I was catching him, the other pelican jumped out and the dog caught him in his mouth. Me and all the fish were pretty stressed by now. I took the last pelican back and we had a couple of weeks rest. Then I went and got 6 harlequins, I have the water checked every time I go to
Lfs they use api kit. It always seems ok, once it had slight trace of ammonia. everything was great for another couple of weeks. I do
pwc every 2 weeks and Hoover the gravel I swish the filter out in the tank water. Then another disaster struck, brown algae, not much as yet and I just clean it off the glass and do
pwc. but even worse, I noticed one of the tetras going pale, it stopped swimming with the others. I researched and found out about neon tetra disease, it seemed a dead ringer for this and all the websites said no cure, euthanasia only way. I did it with vodka like they said but I feel so bad. The other tetras seem ok but I know they could die as well. I feel very disheartened. My profoundly disabled daughter loves this tank I just want to have two little shoals of fish, of about 5 or 6 and two others a bit bigger and golden coloured if possible.is this unrealistic? My tank is about 10 weeks old now I have gravel in the bottom, a couple of plants, a couple of plastic plants and two holey rocks.I use stress coat and the Filterstart as recommended at every water change
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