nataliedd
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Ok im writing afresh from start til now my fish story. I've written various threads about differing problems over the last couple of months and i continue to have problems so im hoping for clarification to rectify rubbish advice me and my husband have been given. sorry it's a long one....
Firstly I want to add that all steps that we've taken have always been under advice from lfs , so as newbies we felt we were in good hands. ( SO Not the case)
Bought a 340litres tank to start our new hobby together as a family. we went for a fish in cycle, so after 8 days of tank being started we bought 6 tetras, every week we went back to shop and as advised by lfs continued to buy a handful of fish.
Having researched further and reading forum threads I now understand our choices to be stupid and hasty but we didn't know this at the time and took lfs at his word.
Over 8 weeks of cycling our purchases have been 10 neons, 6 rummys, 6 corys 4 mollys and 5 guppies. We developed ich a few weeks ago and completed 2 week heat treatment ( I now realise the importance of a quarantine tank, you don't need to tell me!! ) we then had possible columnaris due to new molly being highly stressed and having white fluff on face. This fish was put in a borrowed, cycled quarantine tank but died.
We have recently lost 2 corys and 2 mollys so I now think we may have "new tank syndrome" as our amnonia has been sitting at 0.25 for days despite constant water changes and limited feeding. Before this our amnonia and nitrites were sitting at 0 so I assumed our tank was cycled. At the minute PH is slightly high at around 7.8, nitrates and nitrate are 0. Amnonia 0.25.
So I understand nitrites and amnonia have to be 0 and this increase has probably caused the last few deaths. We now know we should have taken things much slower and we have learnt not to go near lfs ( who Fyi informed me not to bother testing water cos in 30 years he has never felt the need to, he just goes by fish behaviour! !!! I know that will make people cross )
Anyway I'm frustrated and just want to be a successful fish keeper. So please offer comments and advice to help me weather this new storm! I know there will be info missing so ask questions if you need. Nat
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Firstly I want to add that all steps that we've taken have always been under advice from lfs , so as newbies we felt we were in good hands. ( SO Not the case)
Bought a 340litres tank to start our new hobby together as a family. we went for a fish in cycle, so after 8 days of tank being started we bought 6 tetras, every week we went back to shop and as advised by lfs continued to buy a handful of fish.
Having researched further and reading forum threads I now understand our choices to be stupid and hasty but we didn't know this at the time and took lfs at his word.
Over 8 weeks of cycling our purchases have been 10 neons, 6 rummys, 6 corys 4 mollys and 5 guppies. We developed ich a few weeks ago and completed 2 week heat treatment ( I now realise the importance of a quarantine tank, you don't need to tell me!! ) we then had possible columnaris due to new molly being highly stressed and having white fluff on face. This fish was put in a borrowed, cycled quarantine tank but died.
We have recently lost 2 corys and 2 mollys so I now think we may have "new tank syndrome" as our amnonia has been sitting at 0.25 for days despite constant water changes and limited feeding. Before this our amnonia and nitrites were sitting at 0 so I assumed our tank was cycled. At the minute PH is slightly high at around 7.8, nitrates and nitrate are 0. Amnonia 0.25.
So I understand nitrites and amnonia have to be 0 and this increase has probably caused the last few deaths. We now know we should have taken things much slower and we have learnt not to go near lfs ( who Fyi informed me not to bother testing water cos in 30 years he has never felt the need to, he just goes by fish behaviour! !!! I know that will make people cross )
Anyway I'm frustrated and just want to be a successful fish keeper. So please offer comments and advice to help me weather this new storm! I know there will be info missing so ask questions if you need. Nat
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