I'm new here and really have no idea what I'm doing! I bought a tank for my son and the fish all died. A friend told me about "cycling" the water. So that is where I am ... BUT, I keep testing it and the water is getting worse rather than going in the other direction. I've put all the chemicals the store recommended to "help" but the ph level keeps raising and raising. Everything is close to normal so we went ahead and put a couple fish in there. They didn't make it through the night. I don't want to hurt anymore fish so I'm here to try and figure out what to do!