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My question wasn't about whether stress Zyme vs stability was better...it was about how much water to change and how often. Anyway, rightly or wrongly I've decided to do a 20% change every day or every other day. Last water change I did I could swear the fish were following the jug of fresh...

I was using stress Zune but they said stability was better. Can't get live stuff. So what do I do for the best?

So after the 90% change, one of the platys got dropsy I think and died. So no deaths for 5 days now and I've been adding prime and stability every day. The man at the LFS got cross with me saying the 90% change was the wrong thing to do and now the bacteria won't grow. Been testing ammonia and...

well, sadly the poor thing died that night. I suck at keeping fish :(

They've been on very very little food past 3 days because I have ammonia issues in my tank. Could it be stress/dropsy? :(

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Have a sunburst platy whose belly was slightly bulgy when we got it but thought that was normal. Now it's belly is massively bulgy. Thought I saw a pointy fin and it was sold to me as male so either I'm wrong and it's now a pregnant female (all I need) or a very poorly male.

You'll be pleased to know the tank is a lot happier place to be this morning. All the fish have perked up completely :) Thank you all so much for your help. I understand I'm not out the reeds just yet but hopefully I can learn some lessons and maintain a healthy situation.

So I woke up at 2:30am after having bad fishy dreams and decided to check on them. Neon lost almost all colour, 1 ram looking dull, many fish listless and not caring to move, two gasping at the surface. So I stuck two fingers up at the LFS and did a 90% change. It went well but phew how do you...

twotankamin...I have contacted someone off the list to ask for filter media. Will ask my neighbour and friend about rehoming fish. From what I've read around now I understand I'm looking at an eventual MAXIMUM of 10 small fish. Where they got the number 20 from at the LFS I will never know.

But then why not just sell me 10 fish week 1? Why make me wait 4 weeks and test my water etc. It really appeared that they cared for the welfare of the fish. I was just reading through the beginner info and tips pages I was linked to and it says never do a big change rather do 15% daily. I'm...

why didn't the LFS tell me to do a big change? They said don't change at all just use chemicals (expensive chemicals!) and wait. Feel like I don't trust them anymore even though they were recommended.

Might be a daft question but where do I put the fish if I take that much water out? leave them in just enough water to swim?

our instruction to set up was as follows: Set up tank, filter, heater etc etc and run empty for 1 week. Add 2 Mollys and 1 platty and cycle for 3 weeks. After 3 weeks they tested and said tank was cycled. We were told not to change water during this time. The next week we were told we could...