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Just an update. Two days ago in the evening, we lost three more. Leaving just one survivor. On Monday, when the other three died, he was looking just as bad as the others. Super rapid respiration, on the bottom of the tank, even resting on the substrate itself. Not eating nor moving. I've been...

That sounds like good advice. I'll switch to doing my water changes that way from now on.

If we assume that something toxic (i.e. fungus/mold) was introduced/developed in the tank, what would be my best course of action? If I remove the fish and put them into an uncycled tank, I would assume that would remove the exposure to the toxin, however I'm concerned about the potential shock...

Well, the rapid respiration they have. The red gills/flared gill cover I don't think I see (although maybe it's just not obvious to my untrained eyes). And they are definitely not anywhere near the surface but rather sitting about as low as possible in the bottom of the tank. Thanks!

I don't feel like the fish's level of fatness has changed significantly in the past few weeks. We feed them tiny amounts, never more than what they can finish in 1 minute, twice a day. Perhaps even that is too much? Our well water is professionally checked annually for heavy metals/etc, and...

I assumed that distilled water would not contain any chlorine or chloramine. I purchase Target store-brand distilled water which has an online purity statement that specifically states that it is free of chlorine. Thus I don't add conditioner to the distilled water, just the tap water. I don't...

We're on a well, not city water. We add neither chlorine nor chloramine, and past official water tests of our tap water didn't have any issues other than the hardness. I'm not using pure distilled water but rather mixing it with much larger quantities of tap water to slightly reduce the...

2+ inches of Caribsea Eco Complete Black Planted Substrate

As stated in another comment, I would call the ammonia level a 0. There have just been moments in certain lighting in which I think I might be seeing the slightest hint of green in the yellow, though still definitely well below 0.25 and it's possible I'm only imagining the green because my wife...

Thanks!

I should clarify. I would call the ammonia levels 0ppm, but there are times in certain light when I think I see the very slightest, almost imperceptible twinge of green in the yellow. I don't think it's anywhere close to 0.25ppm, but I don't feel confident every time in saying that it is...

I have been very slowly reducing the hardness of the water by mixing tap water with small amounts of distilled water during water changes. I didn't want to do this too quickly because I didn't want to risk stressing them. All of this was long before any of them were symptomatic.

I've already upped my WCs but I'll do 75% changes. The water quality is what's strange to me because the numbers look great, have looked great since I first added them, other then a slight spike when they were first added to my already-cycled tank. Although the water hardness and pH is on the...

My daughter's tiger barbs suddenly started dying off. Although my pH and hardness is high in my source water, they have seemed happy and active up until the past four days. My other parameters have been more or less textbook perfect. Four days ago, the smallest tiger barb stopped swimming with...