Hi everyone, so I am new to the hobby of keeping fish, and also new to this forum (I hope I'm posting this in the right topic)
So we've had fish since somewhere in September 2015. We bought a 17-litre tank (4 gallon) and 12 fish.
What we got: 3 livebearers, platy's to be exact, one of them a red wagtail platy.
5 harlequin rasbora's
4 neon tetra's
The tank has always been around 25°C (77°F), but we haven't really ever checked the pH.
Our tank is set up pretty moderately, we have rocks and some real plants, and a filter of course.
So what has happened is that the neon tetra's began dying (2 of them died), after a couple of months. One of the harlequin rasbora's and one platy died too.
Yesterday (16th of June 2016), we went and got 5 new fish. We got 2 skunk loaches, mostly to help with all the snails in the tank,
and 3 more platy's (I think they were golden comet and maybe golden moon ones).
One day went by and the two other tetras died and another platy died (we're left with the red wagtail platy).
Does anyone know what could be the cause of this? We are feeding them flakes every other day, since that is what the shop told us.
Thank you so much if anyone could help me with this!
So we've had fish since somewhere in September 2015. We bought a 17-litre tank (4 gallon) and 12 fish.
What we got: 3 livebearers, platy's to be exact, one of them a red wagtail platy.
5 harlequin rasbora's
4 neon tetra's
The tank has always been around 25°C (77°F), but we haven't really ever checked the pH.
Our tank is set up pretty moderately, we have rocks and some real plants, and a filter of course.
So what has happened is that the neon tetra's began dying (2 of them died), after a couple of months. One of the harlequin rasbora's and one platy died too.
Yesterday (16th of June 2016), we went and got 5 new fish. We got 2 skunk loaches, mostly to help with all the snails in the tank,
and 3 more platy's (I think they were golden comet and maybe golden moon ones).
One day went by and the two other tetras died and another platy died (we're left with the red wagtail platy).
Does anyone know what could be the cause of this? We are feeding them flakes every other day, since that is what the shop told us.
Thank you so much if anyone could help me with this!