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So it would have been better to leave the nitrites a little high and lower them slowly? I didn't realize that...I guess I panicked and just wanted them down into the safe range. Yep hindsight. The three Ns zeroed out after everyone died and have stayed there ever since, going on a month now...

Update on this tank is that everyone died :cry: Surprisingly, one neon survived for a really long time. One of the bubble-eyes and a neon died and all we had left was the other BE, one neon and the pleco. I kept a close eye on the chemicals twice a day and changed the water as necessary...

Hi all, I'm the one who had the erroneous advice from a lfs employee to put neons with two bubble-eyes and a pleco in my son's new tank with very hard water. I last posted a week ago. Strangely enough, we now have one bubble-eye, the pleco, and one neon. They all seem to be fine. I feel bad...

Well, I spoke with the manager of the lfs where we got the fish. It turns out that both employees that we dealt with are new and are currently taking their tests (they require employees to take six tests). She apologized and said she would follow up with them. The neons never should have been...

Well, I think I know the problem. Here are the readings with the noting on the chart in parenthesis: PH 8.4 (alkaline), KH 300 (high), GH 300 (very hard), nitrite .5 (caution), nitrate 20 (safe), ammonia .25 (safe). It looks like the water hardness and alkalinity is likely the problem. I...

Thanks all! This site has been a great help. Good news, all the fish lived through the night :D I inched the temp up to where it's now around 78F and they all look good this morning. I'm definitely going to keep gathering info, get that test kit, and try to keep them all alive long enough to...

Thanks JohnPaul, I appreciate the encouragement! I haven't tested our water, but we have a terrible time with buildup in the dishwasher and such, so I figure it's pretty hard. I specifically went to a non-chain store specializing in fish because I thought they would be more knowledgeable. It...

Thanks loganj and SoylentGrundy! My son really likes the neons. But he really likes the bubble-eyes, too. I had read up a little on neons because I knew he liked them, but he just saw the bubble-eyes and liked them, too. It's frustrating that we (who know little) rely on the store employees and...

Thanks Frank_The_Tank, I thought it sounded odd that the lfs guy said it would be okay to add them all at once. I know it maxs out the tank and had only planned on us bringing home one type to start with. This store (which is supposed to specialize in fish and aquariums) had the fish grouped and...

OK, I've been reading up some here and am beginning to figure out that maybe neons aren't such a good idea for a new tank until all of the biological levels even out and it's cycled for awhile with fish living in it. Would this be accurate? And that I need to get a test kit if we hope to keep...

Hi all, We got a 10 gal. tank for our son. It has a Whisper bio filter and a heater set at 72F (my son's room gets pretty cold, he's on an upper corner of the house). We have fairly hard water, so I filtered it through the Brita and added Aquasafe per the directions. It cycled fish free for...