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I am new to this site but I need some help. I have a 10 gallon tank that has been set up for 2 months now. It originally had 3 tiger barbs, 1 male betta and 1 male gourami. The betta was getting fin nipped a lot and I read that adding more tiger barbs might help. So i bought 3 more green tiger barbs. and also a pleco as the original one died. Everything was fine until a few days ago. I found one of the new barbs dead and the others are acting strange. they are swimming against the decor eratically and the 2 green barbs are head standing a lot. they also seem to be breathing a lot (mouths are always moving) and they are spending a lot of time at the top ofthe tank. they usually would all be clustered together but are now mostly seperated and staying still in one place. my betta is also more inactive than usual, I have a ship in the tank which provides a hiding place and he is always in there laying on the ground. he'll only really come out to eat. the gourami and pleco seem to be okay. From reading information online it seems that they could have a number of different things wrong with them. im assuming it was caused by adding the new fish. im thinking it might be velvet fish disease or maybe ammonia poisoning. however i recently checked the ammonia and nitrate levels and they were both 0-low. the ph is 7.6 which has risen since the last time i checked. i keep the temperature at 25 degrees celsius. I am located in a small town so Im not sureif our small pet supply store will have medicaton and im not sure what to do. I dont want to mistreat them for something but I also dont want them to die. please help!
Asia
I am new to this site but I need some help. I have a 10 gallon tank that has been set up for 2 months now. It originally had 3 tiger barbs, 1 male betta and 1 male gourami. The betta was getting fin nipped a lot and I read that adding more tiger barbs might help. So i bought 3 more green tiger barbs. and also a pleco as the original one died. Everything was fine until a few days ago. I found one of the new barbs dead and the others are acting strange. they are swimming against the decor eratically and the 2 green barbs are head standing a lot. they also seem to be breathing a lot (mouths are always moving) and they are spending a lot of time at the top ofthe tank. they usually would all be clustered together but are now mostly seperated and staying still in one place. my betta is also more inactive than usual, I have a ship in the tank which provides a hiding place and he is always in there laying on the ground. he'll only really come out to eat. the gourami and pleco seem to be okay. From reading information online it seems that they could have a number of different things wrong with them. im assuming it was caused by adding the new fish. im thinking it might be velvet fish disease or maybe ammonia poisoning. however i recently checked the ammonia and nitrate levels and they were both 0-low. the ph is 7.6 which has risen since the last time i checked. i keep the temperature at 25 degrees celsius. I am located in a small town so Im not sureif our small pet supply store will have medicaton and im not sure what to do. I dont want to mistreat them for something but I also dont want them to die. please help!
Asia
