Fish Dead

[tetra king]

my scissore fish died the other day their didnt seem to be anthing wrong with it could any one tell me why that happend.


thanks

tetra king

 

[QuotheRaven]

Has your tank been cycled? What is the size of the tank & it's tank mates as these can all contribute to a mysterious death.

 

[littlest]

What size tank, what's your stocking, what are you water levels? (ammonia, nitrite etc)

 

[tetra king]

my tank is 20 litres and it mates wore noen tetrasall normal and water levle fine

 

[littlest]

That tank is awfully small for neon tetras or scissortails (which I am assuming if the same fish as you mean). Both need to be in large groups because they are schooling fish and they need lots of swimming space.

Did you cycle the tank before adding the fish? What are your actual water levels? How many fish in the tank?

 

[siamese king]

That tank is awfully small for neon tetras or scissortails (which I am assuming if the same fish as you mean). Both need to be in large groups because they are schooling fish and they need lots of swimming space.

Did you cycle the tank before adding the fish? What are your actual water levels? How many fish in the tank?

thanks for the advise on the scissortails but i know the neon tetras come in groups.

thanks

tetra king

 

[littlest]

Why are you using two different user names?

The advice of tetras being groups still doesn't address the fact the tank is too small for those fish.
You also haven't given your test results for the water. Are you testing your water? If not I really suggest you go and buy some test kits right away. Drop kits are better and more accurate than strips. If your tank isn't cycled and is still showing ammonia and nitrite, that is very bad for your fish indeed. I suggest you read the pinned topic about cycling.

Are there any other fish in this particular tank? You posted before about having a gold sucking loach and a betta in a 20 litre tank, is it the same tank?

 

[tetra king]

Why are you using two different user names?

The advice of tetras being groups still doesn't address the fact the tank is too small for those fish.
You also haven't given your test results for the water. Are you testing your water? If not I really suggest you go and buy some test kits right away. Drop kits are better and more accurate than strips. If your tank isn't cycled and is still showing ammonia and nitrite, that is very bad for your fish indeed. I suggest you read the pinned topic about cycling.

Are there any other fish in this particular tank? You posted before about having a gold sucking loach and a betta in a 20 litre tank, is it the same tank?

i am going to do a check up on my water tomorrow to see what the lvls are.i do have a sucking loach but not gold and no betta. but my logged into his and i did not realise.

 

[littlest]

A betta is a siamese fighting fish btw. Even if you and siamese king are different people, you are clearly talking about the same tank, and a post by siamese king said you have a gold sucking loach, a siamese fighter (betta), 5 neon tetras and a couple of mollies.

 

[tetra king]

A betta is a siamese fighting fish btw. Even if you and siamese king are different people, you are clearly talking about the same tank, and a post by siamese king said you have a gold sucking loach, a siamese fighter (betta), 5 neon tetras and a couple of mollies.

that is my freinds tank not mine.

 

[littlest]

so what, in total, do you have in your tank?
Can you list what species and how many of each you have in the tank.

 

[tetra king]

so what, in total, do you have in your tank?
Can you list what species and how many of each you have in the tank.

3 neon tetras and a guppy

 

[tetra king]

so what, in total, do you have in your tank?
Can you list what species and how many of each you have in the tank.

3 neon tetras and a guppy

 

[tetra king]

so what, in total, do you have in your tank?
Can you list what species and how many of each you have in the tank.

3 neon tetras and a guppy

 

[littlest]

you said you also had a sucking loach, so I assume you have 1 sucking loach, 3 neons and 1 guppy.
Neons need a bigger tank than yours because they need the swimming space. They also need to be in larger groups than that.
For the guppy, I'm not so sure, but I think they are better in groups and would do with a bigger tank also.
I don't know about the sucking loach so I won't comment, I'm not even sure what species you are referring to.


You didn't say whether you did a fishless cycle or not, so I assume you didn't. How long has the tank been set-up, when did you buy the fish, and how often are you are doing water changes? Considering you (probably) didn't do a fishless cycle and you aren't testing your water it is very likely you have got high ammonia or nitrite, which could explain why your scissortail died and why you are now having problems with your guppy.

I'm not experienced enough to tell you exactly what to do, but a 50% water change would probably be a good idea, and you need to return the neons, probably the sucking loach and possibly the guppy (hopefully someone else who's more experienced will come along and give you some more definite advice).

If you haven't cycled your tank, and considering all or most of your fish are unsuited to your set-up the best thing would probably be to return all the fish, do a fishless cycle (with test kits), and use this time to properly research the fish you can have in that tank.