Hello,
Okay, so I'm really -really- new to this, and I'll post what information I have, but I'm afraid I don't have it all. I got my first aquarium about two months ago, and until a yesterday the fish seemed to be doing okay, but I noticed it was acting weird last night, just sort of lurking at the top of the tank just below the surface which it's never done before. I came home today from work and it was dead. I have two other fish of the same variety in there and they're beginning to behave similarly. If theres anything I can do to prevent them dying I'd love to know.
I should note that the one that died, I was watching it for awhile earlier and I couldn't see anything wrong with it except that it's body had taken on a weird shape, it was sort of pulled in just below the head and sort of swollen just past that.
1. It seems to be the glofish that are effected. I had three, the one I bought earliest seems to be fine, but the ones I bought in a set are the ones acting strange.
2. I don't know the water levels, the clerk at the store talked me out of buying water testers.
3~ 20 gallon tank thats been set up appx two months.
4~My filter is a Marina brand Slim s20 and I had just replaced two of the bio-carb filters (over the course of several days).
5. There were 6 fish in the tank, 3 glofish, a strawberry and blueberry tetra and a black tetra. They're all about 3/4 of an inch in size more or less. One of the glofish is more like 1/2.
6. I did an water change early last week, but I'm not very good at it and removed about 1/2 of the water.
7. The newest one has been in the tank about two weeks but the one that died had been in there more than a month.
8. I have not added anything new to the tank recently.
9. I'm feeding it Nutrafin Max tropical fish flakes.
I'm really sorry if I'm being a total idiot, but I just would like to prevent any more of them from dying.
Thanks!
Okay, so I'm really -really- new to this, and I'll post what information I have, but I'm afraid I don't have it all. I got my first aquarium about two months ago, and until a yesterday the fish seemed to be doing okay, but I noticed it was acting weird last night, just sort of lurking at the top of the tank just below the surface which it's never done before. I came home today from work and it was dead. I have two other fish of the same variety in there and they're beginning to behave similarly. If theres anything I can do to prevent them dying I'd love to know.
I should note that the one that died, I was watching it for awhile earlier and I couldn't see anything wrong with it except that it's body had taken on a weird shape, it was sort of pulled in just below the head and sort of swollen just past that.
1. It seems to be the glofish that are effected. I had three, the one I bought earliest seems to be fine, but the ones I bought in a set are the ones acting strange.
2. I don't know the water levels, the clerk at the store talked me out of buying water testers.
3~ 20 gallon tank thats been set up appx two months.
4~My filter is a Marina brand Slim s20 and I had just replaced two of the bio-carb filters (over the course of several days).
5. There were 6 fish in the tank, 3 glofish, a strawberry and blueberry tetra and a black tetra. They're all about 3/4 of an inch in size more or less. One of the glofish is more like 1/2.
6. I did an water change early last week, but I'm not very good at it and removed about 1/2 of the water.
7. The newest one has been in the tank about two weeks but the one that died had been in there more than a month.
8. I have not added anything new to the tank recently.
9. I'm feeding it Nutrafin Max tropical fish flakes.
I'm really sorry if I'm being a total idiot, but I just would like to prevent any more of them from dying.
Thanks!
