I Need Ur Help Urgently

[rahina]

Hi All
I am a new fish tank owner I have bought a tank, left the water for three days, added the gravel, the filter and the live plant and left it for three days extra then I added six guppies.; two males and four females
this was last Tuesday. the problem is they did not eat food, flakes and dried worms except Friday's morning. they ate finally . one of my friends said that this might me because of the change of the tank and the fish might be feeding on the live plants. I saw one of the females doing so but what about the others?
On thursday one of the females died . she made some hysterical mobes before her death. I noticed something strange as well one of the males seemed shy and hid within the gravel. was it because the other male was dominating and wanted the females for himself? Well! guess what? the other "bold" male died on Friday . I found him lying dead at the bottom although he seemed lively and suffered no problem since I bought him
I have read about the nitrogen cycle. I figured that my tank hasn't cycled yet although my plants seem great. they are not considered a symbol to show that the tank has cycled. now I have decided to buy no more fish before two weeks and do the tank maintenance regularly. I think it is very important to buy the test kit although it won't be easy to find it.
Wish me luck and I highly welcome all your advice

 

[demonmagus]

well, you know yourself you didn't cycle, so is there any fish in ther atm?

Plants don't mind about cycling so...

you can buy test kits online

 

[Bex]

Your LFS should have all the test kits you will need. The best ones to get although a little pricey are the master test kits, as they have all the test you will need. All my tests are different makes and it gets a bit confusing. I intend to go get a master test kit soon. Good Luck!

 

[ArielC]

if you live in the U.S. master test kits are about 25-30$ and will last you a very long time. They are much much more accurate that the average test strips. Just a suggestion. :]

What size tank did you buy?

 

[rahina]

Thanks for all those who replied
I am going to buy the kits definitely
Today Saturday I found two more dead fish. only two females left and I doubt one of them is pregnant. I did not take this nitrogen cycle seriously at first in fact five years ago when I had my first tank I knew nothing about it
yet still I want change my plan I determined to have a healthy fish tank so I will wait this time and be patient for the cycle to continue
WISH ME LUCK

 

[rahina]

One more important question which bothers me is that I learnt that I have to change the fish tank water totally every six months and partially every week after the total water change do I have to leave the tank fishless to do its nitrogen cycle and just add live plants and fish food and check the percentages daily then introduce the fish after the cycle is completed??? is that it?