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Just Lost a Glass cat fish now was actually watching it swim about then 2 mins later was on botom of tank dead so have lost 4 today. The Tank is in the front room and nothing has changed in the last 4 months i have had it. i will take a look at those links. i was just wondering about RO...

Now My last Elder Guppy has died, i took some more water to a fish shop for the 4 time a differnt one this time and was all ok. so no idea will just have to wit for them all to dye now and start again. 1 other thing i was going to ask, when you do water changes can you use RO water rather than...

also today my last 2 yellow tailed guppys that i brought last week have died. have gone water changes every day right up to 90% but still no good any one got any more ideas thanks Mark

also now my last Red Dragen guppys Tail has split so its in 2 halfs now mmm just dont know what it is have done a 90% water change now

got home and the guppy was dead. Thanks for reply tom i will do that now i had 3 small glasscat fish, 2 molys, 4 platys, bristle nose plec,4 guppys, 4 danios they were all small bigest was the Danios about 2-3 cm long. if it was over stocked wouldnt the Amonia/Nitrite go up is that right ...

i had been doing them twice a week since the first died last week i done a water change last night will do another tonight and prob keep doing them each day now but when do i stop ? should i do 80% each day ? thanks Mark

now my last red dragon guppy has lost its colour on its tail looks the (bones) of the tail is there but none of the colour it did have a huge tail last night. im mistified now i even took a sample of water to 2 fish shops to triple check they said water was fine which agreed with my tests

Doh!!! i was thinking that but thought it was a coinsidence that they have died at same time and most are from diffrent shops

what is lfs

Heater is fine thats first thing i looked at, i use a Nutrafin test kit, one with the testtubes and bottles. i have been keeping a diary since i started the tank of the levels last 3 weeks they havnt changed on the Amonia and Nitrite and Nitrate has only gone up or down by may be i colour not...

Hi thanks for Reply The other fish are all normal the Big Molly that died today has been normal was this morning got home tonight and it was dead the other one i got at same time is ok. Yes the original fish were exposed to Amonia and Nitrite but i still have 3 of the 4 danios which were my...

Hello i have had my 63 L tank since christmas all has been good up untill about 2 weeks ago. first i had 2 class cat fish dye then few days later i had 1 elder guppy then the next day i had 1 red dragen guppy and a yellow guppy die i have been checking all the levels every other day and...

hello again all is well at the momemt My Ammonia has drop right down to more or less zero for a about a week at a time now then cradually goes up to 0.6, but my Nitrite and Nitrate has shot through the roof NI is 3.3 and NA is 110 im asumming thats the next point after Ammonia has gone the NI...

Hi yes using tetra water conditioner for water changes Will just have to keep at it with water changes and hope the ammonia stabilises soon Mark

hmmm its been 7 weeks now and takes 1 1/2 days to go from 0 to 1.6 on ammonia