Emergency!

[Aphotic Phoenix]

Generally when someone says "get rid of them" around here they mean return them to your local pet shop, or find someone interested in taking them. No one is trying to be rude, but the I think most just assume that someone new to the hobby may not yet be ready to commit to purchasing a huge tank in the future for the sake of a few fish. Also, the longer someone keeps the fish the more attached to them they might grow to be, and the easier it is to justify to oneself that they "are just fine where they are".

 

[pratty675]

i would switch the loaches

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

You say one of your female fighters died within hours of moving the loaches to their 35litre tank, have you tested the tank water quality for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and ph?
The tank is overstocked, in an overstocked tank the water quality fluctuates a lot more and is more likely to go bad, its posible that by moving the loaches into the small tank you pushed the filters ability to handle the bioload of the tank too far and the water quality went bad, causing the female fighting fish to die. The fishes death could also be completely unrelated to the loaches too though, how are the fish looking at the moment? Are any pale/faded looking, hanging around the surface or bottom of the tank lots, gasping/breathing rapidly etc?


Edit: I would also add that its imposible to cycle a tank from scratch in just two weeks, how did you go about cycling the tank exactly and how long has this 35litre tank been running for exactly and how was it cycled?