Please help

[Simonebrigham]

Hello, So I started keeping an aquarium a few years back i started with a 5 gallon and kept moving up until I got to a 40 gallon, the group I had in there then I had for I know at least 2 and a half years maybe longer no issues. THEN I MOVED, I swear I did everything rightI. It was only 10 minutes to the new house. I even got one of those power strip thing that you plug into the cars USB port and kept everything running for them the entire trip, kept half the old water and the bio wheel and put them in there and everything seemed fine . Woke up the next morning and they all were dead. I Know maybe the stress of the move. I broke the tank down after that and cleaned every inch of it you could set it back up let it run for like 4 days put the stuff that makes tap water safe in it and conditioner and brought some fish home and they died within a hour. For the past 2 months I have been trying to add fish and they keep dying. I don't know why. Every single one. Only difference i can notice is I went from well water to city water at the new place. But I'm when I do a test strip it is still within parameters according to the back of the bottle. HELP what is going on. It is depressing! This morning after I found yet another one dead , leaving me with none I unplugged it and said I was done. But evertime I walk past it I know that I do not want to be . But I cannot financially or emotionally keep bringing fish home for them to die like that

 

[Colin_T]

Does the new place have chlorine or chloramine in the tap water?
Contact the water company via their website or phone and get water analysis report. The new water could be completely different to the old well water you used to use. The new water will have chlorine or chloramine in and that needs to be neutralised before it can go in a tank. You can post a copy of the water report here and people can go through it with you.

Don't get new fish until this is sorted out.

 

[GaryE]

I agree with Colin. You need to know the water, and that sounds like water with chloramines. You should read up on the nitrogen cycle as well, but I doubt that's the issue.
I see you're in the USA, and chloramines are extremely commonly used there.
I'm one of those water changing aquarists, as I've learned that if you don't change water regularly, and then you do a big change, fish die. That might explain the move problems. Slow but steady wins the race with aquariums, and I change 25-30% at least 3 times a month, if not weekly.

You should also find out if your new tap is soft or hard. Not all fish can handle both, and a lot of us have to adjust what we try to keep in terms of what we keep them in. There are a lot of fish I wouldn't try in my super soft conditions.