Help Hell Tank!!!

[Chaz]

yes

 

[Mr Miagi]

Man, thats got me stumped then. Anyone else with fresh ideas?

 

[Chaz]

Help, this is one weird tank i have said to a friend that he may be able to have my angel but for his sake i don't think so

 

[simonbrown403]

I think you have just struck bad luck with you dealer.

I have over a dozen fish from 3 years ago still alive in y tank. And some from a dealer in town are still alive, but my last 6-7 purchases have passed away from the LFS down the road.

Try a new dealer when your ready.

You say your PH is 7.3 do you know what your dealers PH is, you and your dealers could have diferent water suplys, ether being higher or lower than yours, ether way it can carse PH/osmotic shock for your new fish, which might not kill them at first, but will stress them out and open them up to secondary infections

 

[Chaz]

Again after my first 10 swordtails died about 3 weeks ago i found out , it was 7.4 and i thought this was fine

 

[simonbrown403]

this can happen if the fish at your dealers are new and not aclimatized proplerly, A sort of pass the parcel, suplyer to lfs then to your tank, the stress can be to much, it's just one of them things.

i've always found that if i buy fish from anywhere than my lfs they usually die.

Could it be a terotory thing new fish into an established tank, gettig picked on.

 

[Chaz]

Thanks guys i will think about it

 

[sinistral]

60 liter tank? That's 15 US Gallons. And you had a tire track eel, an angel fish, giant danios, two silver sharks, 6 phantoms in the tank??? You also mention 10 swordtails??? All at the same time? I'd suggest (very strongly) your problem is overstocking.

Not all overstocking problems show up in water parameters. Often times it can be territoriality, fish just bumping into each other, causing stress, resulting in fish death.

What fish do you have in the tank right now? If it's as heavily overstocked as it sounds, you have no other option but to rehome most of your fish or buy a larger tank. Sorry for the stark news. HTH~

 

[Chaz]

The ten swordtails was a total, i only had two batches of five

At the moment i have one angel one tyre track eel three giant danios one gourmie and one silver shark +one shrmp

 

[CFC]

At the moment i have one angel one tyre track eel three giant danios one gourmie and one silver shark +one shrmp

Thats the problem, the tank is heavily over stocked and cannot physically support any more fish, a 60 litre (15 gallon) tank should certainly not hold more than 20 inches of fish. The tyre track eel and silver shark (bala shark to those in the US) will both grow far too large for a 60 litre tank with the eel reaching a adult size of around 3 feet long and the shark being able to reach over a foot, the shark should also be kept as part of a group as they are schooling fish. Based on average adult sizes your tank has the potential to be holding 70 inches of fish, to resolve the problem you will need to either buy a much larger tank (something in the region of 300 litres) or return the eel, shark and angel fish to the store or find a friend with a larger tank to take them.

 

[juanveldez]

I would hazard to guess that your tank is overstocked as it is, the angel is going to need a bigger tank as will the eel. never been a big fan of danios, and every gourmi that I have ever owned bit the dust.

 

[Chaz]

Thanks, after your inputs i have decided to rehome these fish: eel angel and shark, My dealer never told me these facts! but I guess i should have read up about these fish ) ) )

 

[Torrean]

just a thought. What do you clean your filter with? And how do you go about it?

 

[Chaz]

I clean the filter out with the tank water , squeesing it out evrey month

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Unless your tank is very planted, 0 nitrates indicates your bacterial cycle has issues as far as i know. I strongly agree with your rehoming the fish you mentioned and it will reduce alot of the stress that is killing your fish if you do.