7 Fish Dead. More To Go?

[Little-Fizz]

Alright, so I have a ten gallon tank. I have four plattys, three sword tail, five fry, and two golden mystery snails. Well that is what I had. They fish looked questionable yesterday. I don't have a water testing kit and I was supposed to get one last night. But that didn't happen. So I woke up this morning. All five of my fry are dead. Two coral plattys, And the last remaining two are on thier sides almost dead. Two sword tails don't look that good, but stable. The other swordtail looks sick but acts fine. Infact she is the only one swimming and kind of eating. Oh, by the way yesterday when I saw my fish looked sick I preformed a 25-20% water change. I'm thinking it has something to do with ammonia levels in the tank. but unfortunatly I don't have as kit as of right now. I'm going out in a few hours to buy one. So if it is a problem with the levels in the water how do I fix it? Can anyone tell me ideal readings of an aquarium. And can my swordtails be saved? I'm rather upset from loosing all the babys. three of the fry I had for a while and they were getting so big, and two of them I just found yesterday and they were all small and cute n stuff. One of the swordtails are pregnate I believe. With the huge loss of fish I just had, I would love more fry. Anyone? I just need help. I don't want to loose all my fish.

 

[drewry]

Alright, so I have a ten gallon tank. I have four plattys, three sword tail, five fry, and two golden mystery snails. Well that is what I had. They fish looked questionable yesterday. I don't have a water testing kit and I was supposed to get one last night. But that didn't happen. So I woke up this morning. All five of my fry are dead. Two coral plattys, And the last remaining two are on thier sides almost dead. Two sword tails don't look that good, but stable. The other swordtail looks sick but acts fine. Infact she is the only one swimming and kind of eating. Oh, by the way yesterday when I saw my fish looked sick I preformed a 25-20% water change. I'm thinking it has something to do with ammonia levels in the tank. but unfortunatly I don't have as kit as of right now. I'm going out in a few hours to buy one. So if it is a problem with the levels in the water how do I fix it? Can anyone tell me ideal readings of an aquarium. And can my swordtails be saved? I'm rather upset from loosing all the babys. three of the fry I had for a while and they were getting so big, and two of them I just found yesterday and they were all small and cute n stuff. One of the swordtails are pregnate I believe. With the huge loss of fish I just had, I would love more fry. Anyone? I just need help. I don't want to loose all my fish.

uv done the best thing doing a water change u do need some testing kits though
how long has ure tank been up and running ?
cheek to see if ure filter is still working

 

[Little-Fizz]

Alright, so I have a ten gallon tank. I have four plattys, three sword tail, five fry, and two golden mystery snails. Well that is what I had. They fish looked questionable yesterday. I don't have a water testing kit and I was supposed to get one last night. But that didn't happen. So I woke up this morning. All five of my fry are dead. Two coral plattys, And the last remaining two are on thier sides almost dead. Two sword tails don't look that good, but stable. The other swordtail looks sick but acts fine. Infact she is the only one swimming and kind of eating. Oh, by the way yesterday when I saw my fish looked sick I preformed a 25-20% water change. I'm thinking it has something to do with ammonia levels in the tank. but unfortunatly I don't have as kit as of right now. I'm going out in a few hours to buy one. So if it is a problem with the levels in the water how do I fix it? Can anyone tell me ideal readings of an aquarium. And can my swordtails be saved? I'm rather upset from loosing all the babys. three of the fry I had for a while and they were getting so big, and two of them I just found yesterday and they were all small and cute n stuff. One of the swordtails are pregnate I believe. With the huge loss of fish I just had, I would love more fry. Anyone? I just need help. I don't want to loose all my fish.

uv done the best thing doing a water change u do need some testing kits though
how long has ure tank been up and running ?
cheek to see if ure filter is still working

Ummm my tank has been running for almost 2 months now. I don't think it was finished cycling before I added the fish and that posed a problem. But I thought things were finialy going alright. I had a case of ich but I believe it is gone now. I'm acctualy just about to get ready if the fish store is open and I'm going to get a water tester. I preformed another water change this morning and one of the swords have pick up by the looks of it. I'm pretty positive another platty is dead. And the other swordtail is now on the bottem.

 

[starrynightxxi]

if you had fish in the tank for two months, it probably did cycle, but many medications can kill off the good bacteria in your filter so if you just recently treated for ich, you may well experience a second cycle.

 

[Little-Fizz]

if you had fish in the tank for two months, it probably did cycle, but many medications can kill off the good bacteria in your filter so if you just recently treated for ich, you may well experience a second cycle.

I didn't use meds for the ich. I used a salt + heat treatment. It worked really well. But I did do the test and it read Nitrate 10ppm, ammonia 0.25ppm, nitrite 0 - 0.25 (I couldn't really tell), and ph is 7.6. I did a water change and put something that removes the nitrate, ammonia, and nitrate. The bottle said it wouldn't harm humans pets or fish so it sounded promising. And my snails didn't die. So I guess that is a good sign. All the baby snails died though? Is this because of the spike? Maybe the littlest ones were the first to go. I don't know, but if anyone has any advice for me after you have seen my test results, that would be sweet. Thanks for the posts.

 

[scooterchick]

Ok, something has caused your tank to cycle again. A 2 month old tank you wouldn't expect to see any amonia or nitrite so something's happened. Did you suffer a power cut? When you clean your filter hyow do you do it? When you clean the filter you should basically give it a swirl in the water you've removed from the tank, if you clean it under a tap too vigourously you'll kill off all the good bacteria, thus your tank will cycle after every water change.

Things must have been ok at some point for you to have fry, unhappy stressed fish generally don't give birth so whatever's happened has happened recently.

In the meantime I'd stay clear of anything that removes amonia or nitrite, certainly at the levels you have. When you chemically remove this things, the good bacteria doesn't get a chance to build up so the tanks ends up taking even longer to cycle. daily water changes are the way to go til you get amonia and nitrite down to 0.

 

[Little-Fizz]

Ok, something has caused your tank to cycle again. A 2 month old tank you wouldn't expect to see any amonia or nitrite so something's happened. Did you suffer a power cut? When you clean your filter hyow do you do it? When you clean the filter you should basically give it a swirl in the water you've removed from the tank, if you clean it under a tap too vigourously you'll kill off all the good bacteria, thus your tank will cycle after every water change.

Things must have been ok at some point for you to have fry, unhappy stressed fish generally don't give birth so whatever's happened has happened recently.

In the meantime I'd stay clear of anything that removes amonia or nitrite, certainly at the levels you have. When you chemically remove this things, the good bacteria doesn't get a chance to build up so the tanks ends up taking even longer to cycle. daily water changes are the way to go til you get amonia and nitrite down to 0.

The filter got turned off for an hour an a half. I was doing something when I had come home from school and forgot to plug it in and went back (it's just down the street) For one class and then came back, It might have even been off for less than an hour, could that have something to do with it? (when I pluged the filter in it didn't turn on right away so I took it apart and then put it back together and it worked?)