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
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When I started my 36 gallon (it's been 20 years since i had my 55 gallon), I was forgetting practically everything and did it all wrong this time. The first thing I did was forget about cycling the tank. So I put in my plants, added the water conditioner and the bio stuff that says you can safely add fish, got some fish and had most of them die. When I relearned about the actual cycling needed (from a real -fish shop owner) and the month+ it takes for the tank to actually cycle, I felt horrible for all the fish I lost. It has to 'cycle' through ammonia, nitrites and then nitrates, for the tank to be safe for the fish. I did have a few hearty fish survive the actual cycling, but I had double the amount that didn't. My tank is a happy place now. Wish I had read up on the correct ways to start a new tank and the necessary cycling that must be done before adding the fishies. You can start a new tank with Mollies to get the process with ammonia and nitrites going. That was a hard lesson. We started the 55 gallon with Mollies, but I forgot about that. I just remember being over-run with Mollies (live birth) and vowed never to get Mollies again!
I think those "quick start liquid additives don't actually work". They didn't for me either!
When I started my 36 gallon (it's been 20 years since i had my 55 gallon), I was forgetting practically everything and did it all wrong this time. The first thing I did was forget about cycling the tank. So I put in my plants, added the water conditioner and the bio stuff that says you can safely add fish, got some fish and had most of them die. When I relearned about the actual cycling needed (from a real -fish shop owner) and the month+ it takes for the tank to actually cycle, I felt horrible for all the fish I lost. It has to 'cycle' through ammonia, nitrites and then nitrates, for the tank to be safe for the fish. I did have a few hearty fish survive the actual cycling, but I had double the amount that didn't. My tank is a happy place now. Wish I had read up on the correct ways to start a new tank and the necessary cycling that must be done before adding the fishies. You can start a new tank with Mollies to get the process with ammonia and nitrites going. That was a hard lesson. We started the 55 gallon with Mollies, but I forgot about that. I just remember being over-run with Mollies (live birth) and vowed never to get Mollies again!
I think those "quick start liquid additives don't actually work". They didn't for me either!