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No more fish have died since adding the bacteria. Had water checked on Sunday. Ammonia and Nitrates are high so they said to do a huge water change with spring water and that Prime isn't a great choice. We just did emptied 22 gallons. One of the dwarf gouramis is looking stressed. I hope he...

Doing water changes, went to a local aquarium store people swear by. They agree the tank is cycling and told us to put in a bacteria that can help with cycling and might help save the remaining fish. They also gave us something to plug the slats where water drains in the back of the tank to...

If Prime isn't a good choice what should we use to treat the water we are putting in? We want to start the water changes this morning.

Okay, I will try that.We were concerned that the water pressure coming out was causing issues so we attempted to lessen it and now the first fish we bought, a dwarf gourami died. It's a salt water tank we were told could be fresh water so thats what we are doing.The water being put out from the...

We've had it for 2 weeks. We put the tank together , filled it, treated the water and let it sit for 3 days empty with the filter running before adding the first two fish. They are still going strong. The fish were purchased over the three weeks and we had lost one platy due to getting stuck in...

I have a 55 gallon tank with 3 small catfish, 8 danios, 2 black loaches, 1 platy, 3 dwarf gouramis, 1 Molly, 1 guppy, 3 white skirted tetras and 5 neon tetras. I have had 2 platys,2 mollys, 1 hippie and 3 danios die after exhibiting odd behavior. They stopped eating and were swimming along the...