I might give up on fish caring...

CaitxSith

CaitxSith

A little too obsessed with neons.
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It's just too much for me. My ick infested glolite was *looking* fine (except for the white dots) until I was finished with my homework. Then I looked and found it stuck on the filter. I don't get it! I'm just sick of killing fish, even when I didn't know about much on freshwater stuff. And everytime I add a fish, more than 3/4 of the group dies. The rest dies the next day. I hate myself for killing all these fish so I'm probably going to give up of this freshwater business. This is just too much for a newbie and I don't get anything about freshwater tanks, while my fish dies one by one (but btw, my black neons and silvertips are fine but those are exceptions..)... I might as well give up on this whole thing, not worry about it, and just not see any dead fish in that tank anymore!

and by the way, water is fine.
Ammonia - 0ppm
Nitrite - 0ppm
Nitrate - less than 5ppm
 
Some times I feel the same way--I try and try and some fish just die no matter if you are doing the right things. It is hard to tell what is going on inside your fish, and you never know what they've been trough before you got them. It isn't that experienced fish keepers never lose fish--they just tend to lose them during the quarentine process. It is kind of a growing up process to realize that there are just somethings beyond our control. I'm learning that.
 
I understand your pain, though I have always had very good luck in fishkeeping. if you want to get rid of ich for good, you may want ot drain and dsiinfect your tank with a tiny amount of bleach, and then use bio-spira to re-cycle it and put your fish back in. and homer... neons are just as hardy as danios IME.
 
I'll not risk the chance of a teeny weeny bit of bleach entering my tank. And where would the tetras stay?

I'm still looking for a quarentine tank!

btw, how long should I wait until I can add neons? I know that the ick is still in there, just gotta know.

how many should I add? I know that adding too much can cause the tank to crash....
I always stuck to 4 fish a day but they all die (or at least 3, next day the last one)...

And I have this straaaange feeling that my tank is "impure"...
1)No green algae AT ALL (I mean, I NEVER got to see a BIT in my tank AT ALL)
2)That driftwood... it's been bugging me forever... Nothing's happening to my fish though, so I'm guessing it's ok. But still.......
3)I just feel like it. This feeling that I have ammonia or nitrite in my tank....

the color of ammonia is yellow.
It's either 0 or very low....
it's the VERY LOW part that gets me, though. But if that was true, wouldn't the fish be dead?

........
 
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I am sorry to hear this. if your close enough I have an empty tank here yuo can have. it's a 30G...
 
CaitxSith said:
I'll not risk the chance of a teeny weeny bit of bleach entering my tank. And where would the tetras stay?

I'm still looking for a quarentine tank!
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you combat that by giving a super big dose of dechlorinator after you put water back in. bleach is, in essence, a type of chlorine. I highly reccomend doing it after you get QT tank if you want ich to never haunt your tank again.
 
Ghost_knife said:
I am sorry to hear this. if your close enough I have an empty tank here yuo can have. it's a 30G...
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I'd LOVE to have it.......
BUT

I really don't trust giving my address to people I really don't know...
and I don't think we're close..

but still, it's tempting....

@fishcatch22
I really don't know.. I think it's risky. I'm just going to wait it out, hope that none of my other fish will get it...

so how long do I have to wait?
 
CaitxSith said:
I'll not risk the chance of a teeny weeny bit of bleach entering my tank.
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Bleach is fine to use in your tank. Just make sure that you rinse really well and then rinse again really well using dechlorinater.

Don't get discouraged with fish keeping. All newbies make mistakes, but you have already taken the initiative to improve by coming here and seeking advice! I think that you can do it!! My biggest piece of advice to everyone out there beginning in this hobby is to read all that you can!! :read: :read: You can never know too much!! Good luck and don't give up!
 
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