Sudden Sickeness

[tetraman]

My platy was eating fine and swimming normally when I left yesterday and when I came back 2 hours later he was acting weird. He has either been stationary at the surface or laying at the bottom. I also have a neon tetra that hasn't been looking so good this morning. Help!

 

[black angel]

More than likely your params may be off with all those fish. Even though the 40 fry are small they still give off ammonia. Test for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and ammonia.

Your sig worries me too. A one gallon bowl for a buenos aires tetra and the same for a goldfish? Tetras do better in shoals and needs a 3 ft tank and a common goldfish needs 20 gallons.

http/www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/tet-bair.htm

 

[tetraman]

I know. My friend asked me to take his fish, and one of them turned out to be a lone buenos aires tetra that bullied all of my other fish. The goldfish is a tiny wild variety that I caught in a nearby goldfish pond which I am using to teach my sister how to care for fish with. Anyway, back to the subject. The platy's breathing, swimming motion, and appearence are fine, but he seems to have a punctured swim bladder or something, because he sinks. The neon tetra died, but I think it was from some unrelated cause, since it was extremely fat and had a large colorless patch on its side this morning. What do I do?!

EDIT - I don't have ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate test kits.

 

[tetraman]

He died. Too late.

 

[WILDER]

Sorry bless him. R.I.P.

 

[tetraman]

What could have caused it? Overfeeding? I don't want it to happen again. I do admit I might have gone overboard on feeding the day before. Could that be the cause?

 

[WILDER]

I would take a sample of your water to the lfs and tell them to write the readings down for you.
I would invest in a test kit liquid ones are the best.
How many gallons or litres is the tank.
Never add fish from a pond they could be fetching anything into the tank.
Till we know water stats it hard to say.

 

[tetraman]

Repeat:

I don't have ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate kits and I'm 12 so I can't buy them myself.

 

[WILDER]

I said take s sample of your tank water to the lfs them to test.

 

[tetraman]

Oh, LFS = local fish store? I didn't catch that since it wasn't capitalized!