Hi I'm Cheska, and my family finally bought a tank after almost 15 years since the last we owned fish back home in the Philippines. But it's proving much harder than we last remembered so I would love to get as much help as possible!!
Had originally bought a 10 gallon when my friend and I won some goldfish but they died a week later. Then had more bad luck with tetras we bought after.
We did a water change and have left the tank running the past 2 weeks. We have a live plant and some moss decorating the tank.
The water temperature is usually bw 74-78F. The water tests have shown no ammonia, nitrate and nitrite. The pH is about 7.6 and is pretty hard water. I tried balancing it before but these numbers have been constant the past week.
Today my dad bought 5 zebra danios and I made sure to add some quick start & stress coat when I added the fish. Also carefully acclimated them and netted them into the tank.
Maybe I am just paranoid after the past two times we tried adding fish, but the danios are only swimming near the surface. They are not gasping for air but just swim near the surface all together, they won't seem to go below and swim around. Is this normal? Anything I should do?
Had originally bought a 10 gallon when my friend and I won some goldfish but they died a week later. Then had more bad luck with tetras we bought after.
We did a water change and have left the tank running the past 2 weeks. We have a live plant and some moss decorating the tank.
The water temperature is usually bw 74-78F. The water tests have shown no ammonia, nitrate and nitrite. The pH is about 7.6 and is pretty hard water. I tried balancing it before but these numbers have been constant the past week.
Today my dad bought 5 zebra danios and I made sure to add some quick start & stress coat when I added the fish. Also carefully acclimated them and netted them into the tank.
Maybe I am just paranoid after the past two times we tried adding fish, but the danios are only swimming near the surface. They are not gasping for air but just swim near the surface all together, they won't seem to go below and swim around. Is this normal? Anything I should do?