i am bringing home fish into my tank i already have fish in this tank and they have been living there for years. The new fish i am bringing home are getting slime and cloudy eyes and slowly dying... like theyre loosing their mind. i had done a water change, and dumped the thing they told me to put in the tank, numonio thing that liquid... and it worked i put new fish in the tank and theyre still alive. so i go to my lfs today, and i see2 red devils i buy, i throw them in my tank (i have syphoned my gravel when i dumped that stuf fin.) they seem fine, i come back to check on them here we go again, the slime and retardnes scomes. they start floating around slowly dying. how can i 100% stop this? sorry if i typed this like an idoit, im playing diablo 2 great game. thanks i know i have came to the right place.
need fish expertise advice.!
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First off, What are your current water parameters? Second, you need to QT the fish you buy. Third, You need to pay attention to your fish if you want them to live. Cloudy eye is most likely bad water.
quarantine - as in put them in a seperate tank for a few weeks so they dont kill your current, healthy fish
I have payed attention to them. I notice they are fine, so i leave for several hours like 3. I came back they seem like this.. Hence the other fish i put in weeks ago lived, like my tank was doing this stuff, stopped and no wits repeating.
what kind of filtration do you have?
How often do you do WCs?
How big is the tank?
Have you tested the water?
How often do you do WCs?
How big is the tank?
Have you tested the water?
i have a 140... we did a 60% water change about maybe a month ago? Since then i have put a fish in, lived recently, the two fish i just added almost died, theyre chillin in the convict tank now... so in order for me to save these fish must i do another water change? syphon gravel? and add the nummonia liquid? How do I safely remove a fish and put him in a different tank wthout him dying?
Before you do ANY of that you need to trot down to PetsMart or Petco and get an API liquid test tube kit and test your water for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. I've seen that happen many times (to others) when they put new fish in when the nitrates are sky high. Best to keep them under 20 ppm but at least under 40 ppm. The resident fish have gradually gotten used to the less than stellar water conditions but the new fish can't take it.