I’ll add another vote for ammonia poisoning - the tank was full of tough fish but everything has a breaking point. The clawed frog won’t be far off unless you get the tank on track.
just lost all my fish in 75 gallon
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I agree with Deadeye@ ^^ I also think it's ammonia poisoning. Get your tank cycled and all of that good stuff 
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If you are going to keep that many fish, in such a small tank, you will probably nee to do "at least" a 40% water change every other day.
Its no surprise with a 10% water change once per month that all the fish are dying.
Its no surprise with a 10% water change once per month that all the fish are dying.
Make sure your test kit is fresh, not expired; read the instructions carefully and follow them. Learn to do this yourself, rather than trusting someone else.
That bunch of fish living in that tank with that kind of water-change schedule...cannot possibly be resulting in water that is "perfect".
That bunch of fish living in that tank with that kind of water-change schedule...cannot possibly be resulting in water that is "perfect".
Water changes are your best friend
make them large, do them often
the solution to pollution is dilution
new water should be ideal: proper temp and pH
your persistence is very good for LFS
they need your patronage
make them large, do them often
the solution to pollution is dilution
new water should be ideal: proper temp and pH
your persistence is very good for LFS
they need your patronage
Fin high WC's on a weekly basis and most of your tank problems will improve dramatically. There does appear to be an unusual aspect though and it is that a tank that has that much waste in it normally also has a huge amount of algae in it and yours appears to have none. What might you attribute that to?
gmsoup said:
So... what's the plan? You are the steward of these fish and knew this has been going downhill for some time. What have you done today to resolve the issue? If the answer is nothing the problem is not with the tank; it's you.
I have been treating them and I have spent almost all my time trying to fins out what is wrong with them and as soon as they are better ill give the frog to a friend who absolutely loved that frog and is more than capable of keeping him and then the gourami and pleco ill keep in a quarantine tank for a while and then once I am absolutely sure they are safe ill move them back into the 75 gallon witch I just cleaned out and restarted
I just glanced back at the beginning of this thread; I originally thought that you were changing 10% of your water monthly...i.e. almost nothing!...but now see that you actually answered "no" to the question about water changes! So you weren't even at the high end of that 0-10% range, but rather right at the zero end. And someone else was doing the water testing and saying the water was "perfect"...which you seem to have believed...
So aside from feeding the fish, how exactly do you take care of them?
Several people have already told you flat out in this thread that you need to change water, and lots of it. You now say that you have been "treating" the fish and trying to figure out what the problem is. The basic problem is just what we have all been saying: your water is terrible...literally uninhabitable. This of course opens the door for more problems like secondary infections, but the root of the problem is filthy water.
If you have cleaned out the tank and "restarted" it, you also now face the potential problems of an uncycled raw tank and the attendant ammonia produced by a bunch of big fish. Hopefully, you had a filter full of mature biomedia, which hopefully you rinsed lightly and then installed in the quarantine tank, and even more hopefully will return to the main tank when you put the few surviving fish back in. You will also hopefully do virtually no feeding for the first few days, and feed very lightly after that. And of course...hopefully...you aren't even thinking of buying any new fish to replace the unfortunate victims that have gone before.
But please, please, please listen to what you have been told over and over again: your "new" tank is going to go right down the drain just like it did the first time unless you start doing water changes regularly, at least weekly, and more on the lines of 80-90% rather than 0-10%. If you can't commit to that, better to just let those last few fish die and not get any more.
So aside from feeding the fish, how exactly do you take care of them?
Several people have already told you flat out in this thread that you need to change water, and lots of it. You now say that you have been "treating" the fish and trying to figure out what the problem is. The basic problem is just what we have all been saying: your water is terrible...literally uninhabitable. This of course opens the door for more problems like secondary infections, but the root of the problem is filthy water.
If you have cleaned out the tank and "restarted" it, you also now face the potential problems of an uncycled raw tank and the attendant ammonia produced by a bunch of big fish. Hopefully, you had a filter full of mature biomedia, which hopefully you rinsed lightly and then installed in the quarantine tank, and even more hopefully will return to the main tank when you put the few surviving fish back in. You will also hopefully do virtually no feeding for the first few days, and feed very lightly after that. And of course...hopefully...you aren't even thinking of buying any new fish to replace the unfortunate victims that have gone before.
But please, please, please listen to what you have been told over and over again: your "new" tank is going to go right down the drain just like it did the first time unless you start doing water changes regularly, at least weekly, and more on the lines of 80-90% rather than 0-10%. If you can't commit to that, better to just let those last few fish die and not get any more.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. When you get an answer such as, "idk, someone else does the test but she said it was perfect", to the basic questions on ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels, and then the answer to, "do you do water changes?" is a resounding "NO!" then you just know where the thread is heading. Slap those two on top of a stocking list that can only be described as ridiculous and it's no wonder the OP is having problems.
In a way this is the best thing that could have happened, It's the kick up the backside you need, a stark reality check that your approach to fishkeeping needs to change.
Three very important issues for you to consider OP....
1. You, and you alone, are in sole control of every aspect of your tanks wellbeing. Don't expect, but more importantly, TRUST, anyone else to carry out routine tasks. Your fishes lives depend on this!
2. Water changes are the most important part of the fish keeping hobby, by a long long way. The second most important part is water changes, and the third, fourth and fifth are....water changes. I'm sure you get my point.
3. Before you delve back in head first I'd also say do plenty of research on your stocking choices.
The mess you are in now could so easily have been prevented.
Saying that, I do wish you luck when you get your now empty 75 up and running again. Learn from this calamity and become a better hobbyist.
In a way this is the best thing that could have happened, It's the kick up the backside you need, a stark reality check that your approach to fishkeeping needs to change.
Three very important issues for you to consider OP....
1. You, and you alone, are in sole control of every aspect of your tanks wellbeing. Don't expect, but more importantly, TRUST, anyone else to carry out routine tasks. Your fishes lives depend on this!
2. Water changes are the most important part of the fish keeping hobby, by a long long way. The second most important part is water changes, and the third, fourth and fifth are....water changes. I'm sure you get my point.
3. Before you delve back in head first I'd also say do plenty of research on your stocking choices.
The mess you are in now could so easily have been prevented.
Saying that, I do wish you luck when you get your now empty 75 up and running again. Learn from this calamity and become a better hobbyist.
