New Tank Setup - All My Fish Are Unhappy

[Doogle]

Hi

I have just set up a new tank, and let the water stabalize for 3 weeks.

This is my setup:

90L Tank
2 Ehiem Aqua Balls
PH 7.5
Temp 25 degrees celcius
KH - 8 deg. dH
GH - 10 deg. dH
NO2 - < 0.3
O2 - 8
NH3NH4 - 0

Fish
5 - Neon Tetras
5 - Guppys

To treat the water, I used:
Tetra Easy Balance
Nutrafin Waste Control
Proper PH 6.5

As soon as I put the fish in they looked very unhappy. After 4 hours one guppy was dead and all the others had lost there colour, and look sedated at the bottom of the tank, only swimming along the pebbles.

Does anybody have any ideas what might be happening?

Thanks in advance.

 

[docbanzai]

Please, PLEASE read this...

Many people cycle with fish, I have in the past and had no real problems, but it can cause a great deal of trouble for you initially.

Guppies and Tetras are NOT considered 'hardy' any more (especially neons.) Guppies have weakened due to excessive in-breeding.

For emergency treament, I would suggest doing 10% - 15% water changes every day. Treat water with a decent chem such as Aqauplus. Avoid pH chems wherever possible. Most fish can adapt to changes so long as they happen slowly. Dumping a ton of chems in the tank is a bad idea except in a real emergency.

Good luck.
DB

 

[Doogle]

Seems logical once you know about these things.

Will hang on in there for this batch.

 

[dylema]

Just A question. Did you let the fish acclimatise (float the bag in the tank and slowly ad little amounts of tank water)? If the water in your tank was a different temperature or pH than the water in the bag that would stress the fish straight away.

 

[Doogle]

Yeah did the whole bag thing.

It definitley sounds like the new tank syndrome.

I will know for next time.

 

[docbanzai]

Don't get too depressed about everything.
OK, so you may have nts, but you CAN keep your fishies happy. It's a load of work, but it can be worth it. Keep doing regular, SMALL, water changes (10% every other day). Don't add chems except for water treatments (Aquaplus, Stress coat, etc) to remove chlorine. It may be useful to add products such as Cycle or Stress Zyme. I'm not going to get involved in that debate, but it may help, regardless of what others say.
Make sure you have plenty of O2 going on in the tank, airstones, etc... and don't over-clean. Allow the tank to reach it's equilibrium.
Sorry I can't give more specific info, but it very much depends on your circumstances (water quality, tank size, filtration, substrates, species, etc...)
Good luck.
DB

 

[Doogle]

Thanks for all your advice.