I've had a lot of fish die in the past, and still have a couple of deaths.
Once a fish starts acting sick, my experience has been that they almost always die.
Two days ago, I had a fish that I thought was already dead. It was floating around upside down. When I touched it, it moved.. barely. I just installed an RO system, so just as an experiment, I put that fish in a half liter (2 cups) of RO water. I was sure that fish would be dead within minutes or at most hours.
I was amazed to see that a day later, that fish is 100% healthy again!
I have previously tried everything imaginable to save fish, and nothing worked. I've used erythromycin, melafix, rapid cure, aquarium salt, heater, water changes with rain water, water changes with treated tap water, etc. Nothing worked!
RO water worked a miracle! I admit that I am not an expert on fish, but then again.. I have yet to find a so-called fish expert that knows what they are talking about. There are a lot of people with successful aquariums, but they don't know WHY they are successful, nor why other people are not successful. Most people will tell you to change the water quite a bit. However, changing one type of bad water with another type of bad water is no help.
I think most pet stores use RO water for their tanks... but they really don't know WHY they use RO water. I think the basic problem is that many people's water now contains chloramines instead of just chlorine as was used in the past. Chlorine is easy to get rid of. Chlorarmine breaks down into chlorine and ammonia (nitrates / nitrites). Getting rid of ammonia and it's by-products is extremely difficult. The additives such as "AmQuel" do NOT work effectively.
Once a fish starts acting sick, my experience has been that they almost always die.
Two days ago, I had a fish that I thought was already dead. It was floating around upside down. When I touched it, it moved.. barely. I just installed an RO system, so just as an experiment, I put that fish in a half liter (2 cups) of RO water. I was sure that fish would be dead within minutes or at most hours.
I was amazed to see that a day later, that fish is 100% healthy again!
I have previously tried everything imaginable to save fish, and nothing worked. I've used erythromycin, melafix, rapid cure, aquarium salt, heater, water changes with rain water, water changes with treated tap water, etc. Nothing worked!
RO water worked a miracle! I admit that I am not an expert on fish, but then again.. I have yet to find a so-called fish expert that knows what they are talking about. There are a lot of people with successful aquariums, but they don't know WHY they are successful, nor why other people are not successful. Most people will tell you to change the water quite a bit. However, changing one type of bad water with another type of bad water is no help.
I think most pet stores use RO water for their tanks... but they really don't know WHY they use RO water. I think the basic problem is that many people's water now contains chloramines instead of just chlorine as was used in the past. Chlorine is easy to get rid of. Chlorarmine breaks down into chlorine and ammonia (nitrates / nitrites). Getting rid of ammonia and it's by-products is extremely difficult. The additives such as "AmQuel" do NOT work effectively.