stalinman1
Aquarium Advice Newbie
I have a 29 gallon that crashed a couple of months ago. I had a surviving bristlenose pleco and a cherry shrimp. Since then my tank has remained cycled. I got the tank back up to par and added 3 neon tetras and 2 glowlight tetra two months ago. One glowlight died, I'm assuming it had issues when I purchased it. In any case I waited a couple of weeks to add more fish. One week ago I purchased two peacock gobies, two neon tetras, two cherry shrimp, and an assassin snail. Normally I wouldn't add so many fish at once, but have added several new plants at the same time and water parameters have remained unchanged.
Two days after the purchase I lost a neon, the next day I lost another neon, etc. Yesterday two fish died and today two more. All in all I lost my BN pleco whom I've had for several months, 1 cherry shrimp, my glowlight tetra, and 5 neon tetras within this one week. I am baffled and have no idea what's going on. My only theory is that the gobies could be killing them, although I haven't seen them attack at all. I tested my water levels yesterday with my API kit and Ammonia, Nitrates, and Nitrites are all at 0. The fish haven't looked sick at all, I just find them dead. I've never lost fish like this before, other than my tank crashing due to my own negligence in the past and I'm frustrated and not sure what the problem could be and don't know if I should take the gobies back or not. They are a male/female pair but I haven't seen them act aggressive at all. The only thing I've done differently is add an appropriate dosing of seachem flourish a week ago with a 20% partial water change, which I have always done. I wondered if it was the flourish but thought if it was I would have lost all of the shrimp and they would have gone first. Any advice would help.
Also, the temp is at 78, I have a marineland bio wheel 200 rated for 50 gallons, and currently left are my two peacock gobies, an assasin snail, a mystery snail, and two cherry shrimp. PH tested at 8.6. I know it's high but successfully acclimated a GBR and Angel and they thrived before my tank crashed, not to mention I've had the first few tetras for quite a while before the new additions when everything started dying off.
Fish get fed shrimp pellets on occasion, usually they get high quality angel food flakes.
Two days after the purchase I lost a neon, the next day I lost another neon, etc. Yesterday two fish died and today two more. All in all I lost my BN pleco whom I've had for several months, 1 cherry shrimp, my glowlight tetra, and 5 neon tetras within this one week. I am baffled and have no idea what's going on. My only theory is that the gobies could be killing them, although I haven't seen them attack at all. I tested my water levels yesterday with my API kit and Ammonia, Nitrates, and Nitrites are all at 0. The fish haven't looked sick at all, I just find them dead. I've never lost fish like this before, other than my tank crashing due to my own negligence in the past and I'm frustrated and not sure what the problem could be and don't know if I should take the gobies back or not. They are a male/female pair but I haven't seen them act aggressive at all. The only thing I've done differently is add an appropriate dosing of seachem flourish a week ago with a 20% partial water change, which I have always done. I wondered if it was the flourish but thought if it was I would have lost all of the shrimp and they would have gone first. Any advice would help.
Also, the temp is at 78, I have a marineland bio wheel 200 rated for 50 gallons, and currently left are my two peacock gobies, an assasin snail, a mystery snail, and two cherry shrimp. PH tested at 8.6. I know it's high but successfully acclimated a GBR and Angel and they thrived before my tank crashed, not to mention I've had the first few tetras for quite a while before the new additions when everything started dying off.
Fish get fed shrimp pellets on occasion, usually they get high quality angel food flakes.