Dimitri146
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
i purchaced an eclipse 6 gallon tank about 2 months ago and things have not been working out so good. at first i had 2 african dwarf frogs in a 2 gallon tank and after i set up the 6 gal. for 24 hours I put the frogs in, everything was ok. a few days later i got 4 phantom tetras. everything was cool. a week or so after that i got 3 small zebra dianos. cool (except for they are wayyy too wild) after letting the tank adjust to all these fish for about a month i bought a gold nugget pleco.
my pleco seemed active for the first day but the day after that i noticed he wasnt grazing or going for the algaewfer that i put inside. 2 more days passed of him not eating or doing much of anything for that matter and then i noticed that his suction was getting weaker on the tank and he was starting to slide down. he still wasnt eating and a few days after that he died. i felt terrible. i change about %20 of my water once a week and try to do everything i can keep the tank healthy but i think my ph was still a little too high.
anyhow i went to the fish store and asked about it and they said that they have a 24 hour ruturn policy and that the best they could do was give me a chinese algie eater to test my water and if it held up ok after a few weeks they would give me another gold nugget at their cost. i agreed. i took the chinese algie eater home, changed most of the water and put him in. he was doing fine for the last three weeks, but today the problems started.
The Dainos have realy been getting on mu nerves so today i decided i would take them out and donate them to the fish store. easier said then done. i worked to get them out of the tank for a good 20-25 minutes. i tried to go as slow as possible but i couldnt even come close. i sped up the process trying not to stress the other fish and frogs out and i finally got them. i took them to the fish store, told them my algae eater was fine and asked if they thought it would be time to try another pleco. they said yes so i purchaced it along with a small piece of wood and some stuff called proper PH that is supposed to keep my tanks PH at around 7.0. when i came home i knew the fish might have already been stressed but i did a partial water change, put in the proper PH, and put the bag with the gold nugget pleco in the water to get used to it. 20 min later i put the pleco in the tank along with the wood.
he really didnt do much but sit there in the same place for a while and blink. i put a few pieces of wafer in there and decided not to disturb the tank any more then i had . the wierdest think happen next. a while back i had treated my fish and frogs to some worms and i though they had eaten them all. apparently i was wrong because all the sudden they started coming out of the gravel from everywhere. my frogs went crazy and ate all of them that they could, the fish had a few here and there too but i dont know where they came from! i guess it was the proper PH salt that brought them out but i dont know. anyway, I didnt feed the fish, i let them be hoping they would eat more of those worms and get rid of them. then i left for the day. when i came home tonight the gold nugget pleco was still ust sitting there but in a different spotand the other pleco was DEAD. the frogs were huge from eating so much. the tetras had lost most of there color and looked like ghost but were moving around normally and the water in the tank was very cloudy.
can anyone give me some advice. i mean well i swear i do. and i dont want to lose anymore of my fish or frogs. is it too late? was it stress? is there anything else i should add or take out from the tank??? help!
my pleco seemed active for the first day but the day after that i noticed he wasnt grazing or going for the algaewfer that i put inside. 2 more days passed of him not eating or doing much of anything for that matter and then i noticed that his suction was getting weaker on the tank and he was starting to slide down. he still wasnt eating and a few days after that he died. i felt terrible. i change about %20 of my water once a week and try to do everything i can keep the tank healthy but i think my ph was still a little too high.
anyhow i went to the fish store and asked about it and they said that they have a 24 hour ruturn policy and that the best they could do was give me a chinese algie eater to test my water and if it held up ok after a few weeks they would give me another gold nugget at their cost. i agreed. i took the chinese algie eater home, changed most of the water and put him in. he was doing fine for the last three weeks, but today the problems started.
The Dainos have realy been getting on mu nerves so today i decided i would take them out and donate them to the fish store. easier said then done. i worked to get them out of the tank for a good 20-25 minutes. i tried to go as slow as possible but i couldnt even come close. i sped up the process trying not to stress the other fish and frogs out and i finally got them. i took them to the fish store, told them my algae eater was fine and asked if they thought it would be time to try another pleco. they said yes so i purchaced it along with a small piece of wood and some stuff called proper PH that is supposed to keep my tanks PH at around 7.0. when i came home i knew the fish might have already been stressed but i did a partial water change, put in the proper PH, and put the bag with the gold nugget pleco in the water to get used to it. 20 min later i put the pleco in the tank along with the wood.
he really didnt do much but sit there in the same place for a while and blink. i put a few pieces of wafer in there and decided not to disturb the tank any more then i had . the wierdest think happen next. a while back i had treated my fish and frogs to some worms and i though they had eaten them all. apparently i was wrong because all the sudden they started coming out of the gravel from everywhere. my frogs went crazy and ate all of them that they could, the fish had a few here and there too but i dont know where they came from! i guess it was the proper PH salt that brought them out but i dont know. anyway, I didnt feed the fish, i let them be hoping they would eat more of those worms and get rid of them. then i left for the day. when i came home tonight the gold nugget pleco was still ust sitting there but in a different spotand the other pleco was DEAD. the frogs were huge from eating so much. the tetras had lost most of there color and looked like ghost but were moving around normally and the water in the tank was very cloudy.
can anyone give me some advice. i mean well i swear i do. and i dont want to lose anymore of my fish or frogs. is it too late? was it stress? is there anything else i should add or take out from the tank??? help!