I got 5 bloodfin tetras and a few new hat. rasboras yesterday. They are all swimming at the bottom of the tank and the tetras are swimming in place with rapid fin movement. What is going on here I am so confused.
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what is going on with my new fish
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How did you acclimate them? Were the lights off when you introduced them? You got them only yesterday so give them time to become accustomed to your tank.
The tank is cycled, I have had it since June I believe. It is a 45 gallon cornor tank. And has a Spotted Raphael catfish, the 5 new bloodfins and 6 hat rasboras. I will check the parameters, I hate doing it though because of all the posions in that stuff but I will do it. lol
new fish?? how did you acclimate them? are they in quarantine?
Hate doing the tests because of the poisons??
the chemicals in the test should never come in contact with the main tank..they should only come in contact with samples of the water from the main tank in test tubes..if you follow correct procedures you should be able to minimize any cross contamination issues.
I floated the bags in the tank for 30 minutes and then put them in. I also for a couple minutes before I added them added a little of the tank water into the bags. No not in quarantine. I am not worried about cross contamination I am worried about it getting it on my skin and the chance of accidently harming myself or dropping it.
I used red sea freshwater lab deluxe test kit.
ph - 6.2
ammonia - 2.5
nitrite- 0.05
I did do 2 water changes this week not sure what made the ammonia so high
I used red sea freshwater lab deluxe test kit.
ph - 6.2
ammonia - 2.5
nitrite- 0.05
I did do 2 water changes this week not sure what made the ammonia so high
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I agree, both ammonia AND nitrite are way too high. Do as many wc's as possible asap to get both down to 0.
I have spilled test chemicals numerous times on myself (clumsy me) and never had any irritation at all.
How did you cycle? Its possible that the colony was not sufficient enough for the new amount of bioload added.
I have spilled test chemicals numerous times on myself (clumsy me) and never had any irritation at all.
How did you cycle? Its possible that the colony was not sufficient enough for the new amount of bioload added.
I did a fish cycle back in June. I used to have rosy barbs and cories in this tank and the raphael cat but the barbs and cories got killed by my firemouth. The firemouth lived in the tank untill about a month ago. When it passed but the raphael cat is still going strong