Please help us figure out what is going on with my daughters 10 gallon aquarium with a basic Top Fin filter 10. We set up the tank in early September. Under the advice of Petsmart, we let the tank run for 48 hours before adding any fish. The first couple of months we had several losses, off and on. But since mid-November, things seemed to be great. We
2 zebra danios
2 red wag plattys
2 black skirt tetras
4 Dalmatian Molly's
1 rubber lipped plecostomas
](Note: we do realize this slightly overstocked the tank, but figured it would be a temporary thing since we are upgrading soon).
About 10 days ago our plecostomas died suddenly, without appearing to be sick at all prior to dying
]About 4 days ago we noticed one of the red wag plattys was staying at the bottom, or hiding behind a leaf. The next day we noticed what looked like ich (it appeared like sugar crystals) on both plattys, one of the tetras and three of the Molly's. By the afternoon one of the plattys and two of the Molly's were dead. We got some ich tablets from Petsmart and followed the directions. The next day the tetras appeared to have fin rot and ich and another Molly died. We've lost one of the tetras now. The only thing left is one tetra with fin rot and ich, one Molly with ich, one platty with ich, and two zebra danios who seem to be healthy ( and ironically are two of the fish we started with in the beginning).
Our seemingly good aquarium seems to have taken a terrible turn! When we were in Petsmart we had out water tested and it all tested good so we just don't know what the problem is. We have had it tested frequently over the past few months and it always tests good.
We do weekly water changes of 20-25% and vacuum the gravel with each change.
]I have the Api stress coat and stress zyme that we use with each water change.
My daughter has asked Santa for a larger tank for Christmas (a 36 gallon bow front), but it appears we may be completely starting over with the new aquarium
2 zebra danios
2 red wag plattys
2 black skirt tetras
4 Dalmatian Molly's
1 rubber lipped plecostomas
](Note: we do realize this slightly overstocked the tank, but figured it would be a temporary thing since we are upgrading soon).
About 10 days ago our plecostomas died suddenly, without appearing to be sick at all prior to dying
]About 4 days ago we noticed one of the red wag plattys was staying at the bottom, or hiding behind a leaf. The next day we noticed what looked like ich (it appeared like sugar crystals) on both plattys, one of the tetras and three of the Molly's. By the afternoon one of the plattys and two of the Molly's were dead. We got some ich tablets from Petsmart and followed the directions. The next day the tetras appeared to have fin rot and ich and another Molly died. We've lost one of the tetras now. The only thing left is one tetra with fin rot and ich, one Molly with ich, one platty with ich, and two zebra danios who seem to be healthy ( and ironically are two of the fish we started with in the beginning).
Our seemingly good aquarium seems to have taken a terrible turn! When we were in Petsmart we had out water tested and it all tested good so we just don't know what the problem is. We have had it tested frequently over the past few months and it always tests good.
We do weekly water changes of 20-25% and vacuum the gravel with each change.
]I have the Api stress coat and stress zyme that we use with each water change.
My daughter has asked Santa for a larger tank for Christmas (a 36 gallon bow front), but it appears we may be completely starting over with the new aquarium
