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[dabruno]

!!!!fish dead help!!!!

ok i have a problem
4 of the 6 fish that i got died already,
one of them just dissappeared and the rest floated to the top. i went to bed yesterday and thay were all fine and in the morn.......dead
the 4th death was noon today and i noticed htat b4 it died it's top lip was gone?
what is going on here???
?!?!?!?!?:help:!?!?!?!?!

 

[cam191919]

idk but it sounds bad

 

[cam191919]

sorry

 

[dabruno]

any real help at all???
when i got the water tested everything was fine...
there night have been a tiny bit of ammonia tho it was so close u coludnt tell... it read btw 1-0 but was closer to zero.???
HELP

 

[dabruno]

could the shrimp possibly be killing the fish since they are living so close together?

its down to 2 fish from 6

 

[DAVIDFBT]

The water is fine now because the cycle hasn't even started. The first stage if Cycling is a rise in ammonia after about 2 weeks, there is a rise in Nitrites, then 2 weeks after that, the ammonia and the Nitrites go down as the Nitrates level increases.

The water part of the vivarium hasn't started yet, that's what killed off your fish. I told you that a cycle usually lasts about 4-6 weeks, yet you got the fish anyways. Go back to the store where you got them from and return them until the cycle is complete.

 

[dabruno]

i thought that that was about 4 weeks ago so i added fish
i guess ill waight a little whilt w/o fish
can i still keep the shrimp in there? cuz they are really good cleaners and eat anything that i dont want in the water

 

[DAVIDFBT]

I should have clarified and said that the 4-6 weeks starts when you put something alive in the water.

You can still keep the shrimp. But expect a couple of them to die.

 

[dabruno]

oh... oops my bad im really new to this as my dad runs the other fish tank in the house. i will transfer them to my dads tank tonight (it is a community tank so it is ok.)
i will get a test kit so i can monitor the cycle as it goes
is there anything that i can do to push the cycle along?

 

[DAVIDFBT]

Yes, you can! Ask your dad for some gravel or sand from his tank, put it in a nylon stocking, and hang it in your tank water. This should speed the cycle along and it would take only 2 weeks. Or better yet, if your dad throws out some filter media, put some in a nylon stocking and do as before. Still, you should get a test kit.