Hello!
I've have had my aquarium for over a year now, but I still seem manage to kill off a fish every few weeks. I know in the beginning I was too naive about everything, but now I don't know what i'm doing wrong. I had a good streak over the summer where all was well for about 3 months, but I've had two deaths (platys) in the last couple of weeks. One hadn't been eating and had been hiding for a while, but with no obvious external problems. The other had one white spot on it's tail yesterday and was dead this morning.
I do a 20% water change once a week and the parameters always seem ok. Ammonia nil, nitrite nil & nitrate 25mg. I feed my fish every other day.
My tank's only 30L which I have discovered in hindsight is somewhat small (small seemed good to an ignorant beginner). It contains 7 neon tetras, 1 ember tetra, 1 platy, 4 guppies and 3 snails.
I'm at the stage where I'm either going to stop buying replacement fish or consider gambling on a bigger tank, but I don't want to find that I'm still doing something wrong and it has nothing to do with tank size.
Does anyone have some good advice for me? Many thanks in advance!
I've have had my aquarium for over a year now, but I still seem manage to kill off a fish every few weeks. I know in the beginning I was too naive about everything, but now I don't know what i'm doing wrong. I had a good streak over the summer where all was well for about 3 months, but I've had two deaths (platys) in the last couple of weeks. One hadn't been eating and had been hiding for a while, but with no obvious external problems. The other had one white spot on it's tail yesterday and was dead this morning.
I do a 20% water change once a week and the parameters always seem ok. Ammonia nil, nitrite nil & nitrate 25mg. I feed my fish every other day.
My tank's only 30L which I have discovered in hindsight is somewhat small (small seemed good to an ignorant beginner). It contains 7 neon tetras, 1 ember tetra, 1 platy, 4 guppies and 3 snails.
I'm at the stage where I'm either going to stop buying replacement fish or consider gambling on a bigger tank, but I don't want to find that I'm still doing something wrong and it has nothing to do with tank size.
Does anyone have some good advice for me? Many thanks in advance!
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