So I have a 20 gallon fishtank with plastic plants and aquarium rocks for substrate.
I havent had good success with fish in the past year. I cycle the tank, wait for everything to go to the right levels. Then, I purchase maybe 5 fish (hardy fish like guppies or goldfish) acclimate them and then add them. Withing 48 hours they are all dead.
This time I am trying a acclimation method that I found online.
I add the water dechlorinate it and wait 24 hours to make sure the chlorine is gone.
Then I add 8.45 oz of tetra safestart plus within 2 hours of adding fish.
I added 2 fancy guppies (of course I acclimated them for temp and ph and kept the lights off for about 16 hours.)
The next morning I checked them and they looked good. Swimming around.
The next night the female guppy was acting kind of strange. Hanging around the top and occasionally laying on the bottom and breathing sort of fast. Sometimes swimming around with the male.
The male is acting completely normal.
One thing I noticed is that both of their rear fins are kind of shaggy looking.
Its been 3 days since I added them and thats whats happening.
I just dont really know if I should be worried or what?
Let me know and sorry for the longggg post
I havent had good success with fish in the past year. I cycle the tank, wait for everything to go to the right levels. Then, I purchase maybe 5 fish (hardy fish like guppies or goldfish) acclimate them and then add them. Withing 48 hours they are all dead.
This time I am trying a acclimation method that I found online.
I add the water dechlorinate it and wait 24 hours to make sure the chlorine is gone.
Then I add 8.45 oz of tetra safestart plus within 2 hours of adding fish.
I added 2 fancy guppies (of course I acclimated them for temp and ph and kept the lights off for about 16 hours.)
The next morning I checked them and they looked good. Swimming around.
The next night the female guppy was acting kind of strange. Hanging around the top and occasionally laying on the bottom and breathing sort of fast. Sometimes swimming around with the male.
The male is acting completely normal.
One thing I noticed is that both of their rear fins are kind of shaggy looking.
Its been 3 days since I added them and thats whats happening.
I just dont really know if I should be worried or what?
Let me know and sorry for the longggg post