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I have a 20 gallon freshwater tank that held 3 rosy red minnows for 13 months. Around 11 months, things fell apart. The ph was dropping. I would add ph increase and it would work for a while. One morning, I woke up to find one had died. The other just then swam into the tank wall and died...

I can’t mentally handle doing that. Especially without certainty of what this is. The tank conditions are within normal parameters. But only by using the type of ammoniakit that tests for free ammonia not total ammonia. Ph, nitrite, nitrate, are all normal too. I did a big change this...

My fish recovered. Then a few days ago began to seem like she was almost asleep, against one of the side walls of the tank. Then she’d see me looking at her and snap out of it and panic, darting everywhere. It’s 4 days later. Yesterday this began to happen. Now she cannot stop herself and...

Very sadly, two of my three fish died Tuesday morning. I had been monitoring the tank for slightly elevated ammonia and too low ph. But I didn’t think things were that bad. I was shocked and devastated to see the male floating. I saw my two females swimming. Then one stopped dead. She’d...