Day Mors

DEAD FISH… how can I prevent this from happening over & over?

I have a fish tank that i have been reusing for a few years now a 10 gallon.. every time I purchase new fish and reuse the tank, you know empty all the water, rinse off all tank items clean the glass in side and out and re fill, adding a fish based cleaning Solution to the water and connecting the air bubbles.. and let stand hooked up over night or less before adding new fish , so I get the new fish / gold fish different varieties, and some black mors and guantias… after the first day and after feeding my water gets cloudy and soon after my fish kick the bucket it never fails……. so CAN ANYONE GIVE ME SOME SUGGESTIONS, POINTERS, AND THING WILL HELP…this sort of thing didn’t use to happen.

you’re actually doing pretty much everything wrong, sorry. even though you may think cleaning everything off is good, you’re actually killing all the bacteria that breaks down the fish poop…

please do some research. a 10gallons is tight for a single goldfish, a few is WAY over stocked.

the cloudiness is bacteria trying to build up.

basically your fish are dying because they are being posioned by their own waste….
so, what can you do? a fishless cycle!

let me explain… in an established tank there is bacteria that breaks down the ammonia into nitrite. then there is more bacteria in the tank that breaks down the nitrite into nitrate. nothing breaks down the nitrate so you need to remove that with 25% water changes using a gravel vacuum once a week.
in a new tank, there is no bacteria. so when you add a highwaste producing fish (or two in your case) they produce all this ammonia and there is nothing to break it down.

to keep any more fish from dying you’ll need pure ammonia, a test kit for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, a gravel vacuum, and a few weeks. basically you’ll add enough drops of pure ammonia to make the ammonia test read 5ppm. add that many drops everyday until the nitrite spikes then cut that number in ha;lf and add that everyday. once the nitrate spikes you’re done. change half the water and then you can add your fish.

now, a few weeks may seem like a long time, but you can use this time to do some research on fish that are suitable for your tank! here’s a list of fish that are suitable, do some research on them:

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=830+2855&r=3119&s=ts&start=1&page_num=1&count=24

and here is an article on fishless cycling:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5474137_do-fishless-cycle.html

A Mother’s Love – Jim Brickman