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Last update: Today I lost my last rasbora. I'm kind of in shock that I managed to lose 12 fish in less than a week, but there you are. I honestly think some of them ended up dying of fin rot and not chlorine poisoning because after I purchased them, I noticed that some had frayed fins. As soon...

The stuff that came with my tank is almost gone now, so I will definitely pick up some Prime next time I got to my lfs. :) Yes, it didn't fizz.

Thank you. Another one is dying now, though I think this was the one that was already breathing rapidly and twitching earlier. I hope that I found the source of the problem and just was too late to save her. I know you're right but I still feel bad. Hopefully the remaining 8 survive.

I feel really dumb and may have provided myself with a solution. I've been using a water conditioner that came with my aquarium kit. The cap went my 5 mL increments, and the directions said to use 5 mL per 10 gallons of water. So, since during water changes, I add water from a 2.5 gallon bucket...

I am about to do a 50% water change. Not sure how dividers would help me at all here. It seems odd that only 1 species is dying. There is not much algae in my tank and the tank doesn't look darkened. If it helps at all, closer inspection of the new rasbora reveal that they have some frayed fins...

So, two more died today alone. I am now down to 9. When I woke up, one was swimming back and forth along the surface of the water, again and again, and died within 10 minutes. And when I got home from work today, another had died. No evidence of any fungus or anything on the gills. The one that...

Nope, I haven't noticed anything like that :(

Google says that fish display a white cottony growth. If that's true, it's not what this is. All 8 dead fish have looked completely normal. I've inspected each one after death and there are no physical signs of disease, other than a slight pallor on a few of them. But, I believe that's due to...

An update: I have been losing Harlequins left and right. I began with 9, from the same store, and lost a few on a weekly basis. However, their deaths became more frequent, and eventually I began losing one every 1-2 days. I was down to 3 yesterday before I was finally able to make it up to a...

If it's not likely the rocks, will a 50% water change really do any good? A 50% water change will take me at least an hour to do, and for an extremely slim possibility, it seems like it's not worth my time. I have had the fish for 6 weeks and none of the other fish in the tank appear affected...

My mom said there's no chance of the rocks having chemicals on them. She said the lawn care men were digging up a plant and found them underground (not sure how I got the idea that they just appeared on the driveway, lol). They didn't spray anything that day. The only thing I could think of...

Alright, I took them out but can't do a water change until tomorrow night (I work Sundays and really should be sleeping right now). The rasboras look okay but aren't shoaling together like they normally do. Tomorrow I'll ask my mom about the possibility of chemicals on the rocks. I'll keep you...

Hmm okay, I'll make sure to do that soon. The rocks are from my mom's house. The lawn care guys left them on her driveway and she has no idea where they came from. To be honest I have no idea what the lawn company does for her but I guess there's a chance there's fertilizer or pesticide on them...

Aqueon water conditioner. Something that it might be is my filter is really dirty. I feel silly for this but it just occurred to me to check it today. X_x I am going to buy a replacement tomorrow but could a dirty filter be the cause of this? Last I had checked it was maybe 2-3 weeks ago, and...

I don't see any skeletal deformities. The second fish that began twitching seemed instantly okay once I did my water change, so I thought I was out of the clear and just needed to watch nitrate levels more closely. The barrel rolling seems to be a new symptom, and only the one did it. :/