Problem all of a sudden. Please help. Im a newbie.

well I would feed them about 8 am. then 1 pm then 10pm before bed.
Usually just a pinch.

Im really mad about this vacation food. I thought to myself "WOW this great I dont need to worry about anyone feeding them when Im gone". Im really pissed cause I know this is what happened. As soon as I put that in ..Bam gone!

Im just glad I did test it before we left. then putting it in and getting back to dead fish.


where can I find cool fish aquiarium ornaments for inside the tank? I saw petco had a spongebob square pants figure, but wonder where I can find more stuff. any cool sites?

Thanks in advance again guys. This has been great help.
 
what did you mean when you said you cleaned the whole tank out? And is this something you always do? I would say that the fish you introduced may be the biggest cause of the problems. I have used fish meds before and yes,they can be stressful, but they aren't guarunteed to kill your fish. However, it is extremely important to use them properly, or even at half dose if that is the treatment route you chose to take.

Do you know exactly what type/brand the automatic feeder was? Just the dissolving blocks? In general those feeders are useless, but in and of themselves they don't kill fish. Especially when you only had it in the tank for such a short time. Kas~ how do you know they are fish killers?!?! Can you site some proof? I would like more info.
 
Hi yes I clean the whole tank out once or twice a month. I find it better to do it that way instead of just vacumming the bottom. I did this for one year no problems.



vacation food -----Dats what happened the water got alittle cloudy and they are not dying. Nothing happened till I got that fish food.

But then again, it could be the three new fish I introduced too. To hard to tell since i did both at the same time.
 
Gotti Jr said:
Hi yes I clean the whole tank out once or twice a month. I find it better to do it that way instead of just vacumming the bottom. I did this for one year no problems.
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:thud: Nooooo! There is bacteria the converts ammoina (fish poo) to nitrite and then nitrates. If you totaly wash out the tank all the bacteria dies. All you need to do is weekly 25-50% water changes, and weekly or once every other week gravel vacs. Also the filter media only needs to be changed when its falling apart. However it should be washed out in old tank water once a month. You have to use old tank water because the chlorine in tap water kills the bacteria.
 
wow. I dont understand this. I was doing that for a year and nothing went wrong at all until I introduced the vacation food or the new fish.

Hmmmm. this is getting frustrating. I thankyou for the tips though. Wow. :sick:


P.S Filter media??? :help: its 10:34 est. 5 of my fish are roaming the tank as usual...just ate....looking lively.....1 fish (guppie) is down on very bottom inside a ornament. Not moving much. :idea2:
 
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The vacation food has calcium carbonate in it i think (or plaster.. sort of) it can and will affect carbonate hardness but not much unless you put a 10 day feeder in a goldfish bowl.

I have used it in the past without issue. It does introduce alot of food at one time though and i think that is what happened to you.

You sterilized your tank twice a month for a year, but was keeping your feedings low so you probably had ammonia spikes but were controlling them by breaking down your tank completely. you dumped the feeder in and all the sudden there was a huge source of rotting material with no biological filter to handle it. ammonia spiked high frying your fish which, unfortunately, probably were already weakened with the smaller ammonia spikes and your medication (which magnifies the affects of the ammonia/nitrates)

I dissagree though on one point mentioned here. You need to treat the entire tank with Ick. the parasite has 3 life stages, fish pustoule (white spots) a sinking phase that "hatches out" of the spots , and a freeswimming phase which infects new fish. the only phase suseptible to meds, so treating the fish would be almost useless.

I would recomend you learn about the nitrogen cycle (google search or search here will give you so much information about it you need a PH.d in chemistry to understand it all, but there are simple enough explainations to understand for a casual fishkeeper)) then a search on ick would be good, its nefarious unless you understand it.

Don't feel bad you made a mistake, just learn from it and don't let it happen again. I made pleeeenty of mistakes (just search for my posts on here). still making them. the only people who don't make mistakes are either comatose or dead.

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ps. I wonder if i could sue microsoft for word. its autocorrect and spell checker has killed my ability to spell.. wonder what it would take to install spell checker plugin to this fourm .. must investigate and annoy owners with it:) j/k
 
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maaltan said:
I dissagree though on one point mentioned here. You need to treat the entire tank with Ick. the parasite has 3 life stages, fish pustoule (white spots) a sinking phase that "hatches out" of the spots , and a freeswimming phase which infects new fish. the only phase suseptible to meds, so treating the fish would be almost useless.
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I never said the you shouldent use salt and heat on the main tank :joke:

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ps. I wonder if i could sue microsoft for word. its autocorrect and spell checker has killed my ability to spell.. wonder what it would take to install spell checker plugin to this fourm .. must investigate and annoy owners with it:) j/k
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ROTF LAMO. Same here! With out the auto corrent I cant spell!
 
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