fish dyeing

[asd159263]

I had some guppies for about a week, one of them started acting strange 2 days ago. It was always at the top of the tank and was moving around slowly, it would have moments of normale activity and then resume te slow thing. Today i woke up and he was dead at the top. Now there is another guppy that was purchased wed. is doing the same thing. please help what should i do


the tank is about 2 and a half weeks old.

Its a 10g tank with 5 male guppies (was 6) and 3 silver mollies

i changed the water today (25%)

 

[TKOS]

Is today the first time you changed the water? If so then the guppies died due to ammonia and nitrite poisoning. Your tank isn't cycled yet and daily water changes of a minimum of 25% are needed. If you have test kits then do water changes to keep the ammonia well under 1ppm and nitrite under 0.25 ppm. I also suggest you go the the top of the newbie forum and read the sticky on cycling tanks.

 

[galaga-girl]

I've had so much trouble with guppies! In the last few months i've lost well over 10 to all different conditions, I will no longer keep them. I have one left

 

[yzakj]

Hey galaga girl my friend is trying to raise guppies too and he has lost so far I think around 5. The reason he lost them is because he overstocked and didn't listen to my advice, but thats not the point. When I first started out I didn't know a thing about cycling and everything else important to fish keeping. I bought like 20 fish for my 20 gal and one by one they all died except one gourami. I think I overheated them but thats not the point.

I decided to start up again on aquariums, but before I even did I decided to do some research online. I spent about a month just looking at different websites for different ways to start out and I took everything slowly. Now I have had my tanks for about 5 months with the same angelfish, same zebra I FIRST bought and even a Flame tetra with one eye! Sorry for all this rambling but I just don't think you should quit because its all good once you get it right!

 

[Jtd724]

sounds like a water problem more then a fish problem, could be wrong I am not familiar with guppies but that high of a death rate is unusual ( i think ). Do you have pH water test kit and nitrite\nitrate test kit, If not, purchase them and they may give you the answer to your question.