bubblej17
Fish Crazy
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hi all, ok heres my story,
my friend had a tank he wanted rid of so i said i'd have it, its an aqua one 620, it came with 2x angel fish 1x large silver shark, 1x plec, 2x tetra, 1x mollie and 2x goldfish!!, so first off i filled the tank up put stress coat in aswell as tapsafe let the fish settle down for a few days then it was time to give the tank a complete make over and a good scrub and clean (it was poorly looked after and over stocked i think)
so a house move was in order for the plec, 2 angels which went into my fella's 6ft6 fish tank and the goldfish got slowly acclimatised to cold water again and into my daughters tank,
anyway back to my tank, gave it a good clean added new gravel and filled back up with water left the filters the way they were with plenty of good bacteria put the tetra'a back in and the mollie and gave it another few days then i thought time to restock it so off i went and got 6 albino cory's and 3 female mollies no more than 24 hours later i had a dead cory so took it back to the lfs along with a sample of water, which came back fine so i got my new fish and off home i went acclamtised the cory as i do with all my fish, then another 24 hours later i had another dead cory so i checked my levels and there was a slight trace of ammonia but nothing drastic but i did a 25% water change anyway, another day passed and yes you guessed another dead cory, now im starting to wander if its a weak cory stock at the lfs,
i tested my levels again and there was only a very very slight trace of nitrite and i mean very very slight trace, so another water change,
just went i thought things were getting better i returned from work to find another 3 dead cory's, and lastnight my poor male mollie died, my levels now are pretty much spot on, so why are my fish dying could it be just weak stock or i have i done something wrong?? and what can i do to make it right? any help would be much appreciated, thanks
my friend had a tank he wanted rid of so i said i'd have it, its an aqua one 620, it came with 2x angel fish 1x large silver shark, 1x plec, 2x tetra, 1x mollie and 2x goldfish!!, so first off i filled the tank up put stress coat in aswell as tapsafe let the fish settle down for a few days then it was time to give the tank a complete make over and a good scrub and clean (it was poorly looked after and over stocked i think)
so a house move was in order for the plec, 2 angels which went into my fella's 6ft6 fish tank and the goldfish got slowly acclimatised to cold water again and into my daughters tank,
anyway back to my tank, gave it a good clean added new gravel and filled back up with water left the filters the way they were with plenty of good bacteria put the tetra'a back in and the mollie and gave it another few days then i thought time to restock it so off i went and got 6 albino cory's and 3 female mollies no more than 24 hours later i had a dead cory so took it back to the lfs along with a sample of water, which came back fine so i got my new fish and off home i went acclamtised the cory as i do with all my fish, then another 24 hours later i had another dead cory so i checked my levels and there was a slight trace of ammonia but nothing drastic but i did a 25% water change anyway, another day passed and yes you guessed another dead cory, now im starting to wander if its a weak cory stock at the lfs,
i tested my levels again and there was only a very very slight trace of nitrite and i mean very very slight trace, so another water change,
just went i thought things were getting better i returned from work to find another 3 dead cory's, and lastnight my poor male mollie died, my levels now are pretty much spot on, so why are my fish dying could it be just weak stock or i have i done something wrong?? and what can i do to make it right? any help would be much appreciated, thanks