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My guppies were swimming with their heads up and then died the same day. I later realised that there was a malfunction with my heater and the water was way too warm!

Do you think that the rainbow shark could be eating algae off the inside walls of the cave/pipe? :look: cos that would be a lot better than ammonia poisoning!

Thanks. Do you think my fish will survive this terrible ordeal? Maybe I should just cycle the tank with no fish. . . I wish I came here before buying anything!! :unsure:

Thanks a lot for the information. I'll change the water tonight. So what I'm gonna do is add conditioner to the new water and remove 95% of the current water? Every day for how long?

thanks for your help! the filter is "Filter box includes; wool, charcoal and bio-balls". its the 3-step filter system i think. So i should change 95% of the water?! wow thats a lot.

The tank has been set up for about 3 days. I added some live bacteria on the first day in hope of speeding up the cycling process.. but maybe I should have waited longer? Is there anything I can do to help my fish? :-( Would it eventually become normal?

Hi! Im new to the tropical fish keeping hobby and I just bought a rainbow shark two days ago. However for the last one day my rainbow shark has been acting strange, it is constantly reversing and swimming back into a vertical pipe(decoration) in my aquarium and has been doing so for the last 24...