please someone help me save my rtc . hes dying

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Don't change 50% of ur water at one shot.. you are going to mess up all your parameters big time and your fish wouldnt be able to adjust to it. Instead start with 10% twice a day and slowly increase it in 4-5 days time to 20% and so on. What you can do immediately is to add more airstones into the tank and improve you filtration capacity in terms of GPH and media. You should also start to find ways to re-house the fish that you have so that the overcrowding will not kill them off. Come on guys lets help do the more urgent thing which is to save the fish and not flame him for housing them inadequately.
 
Of course, I accept your point,that's why I added the caveat that it was for "normal" fish (sorry missed out the fish after normal within original text) i.e. communtity fish and should not be interpreted blindly. But this is the problem too many people do not think! I was merely trying to highlight the point. One 12" Oscar is obviously going to produce a lot more metabolic waste than 12 x 1" Guppies. And obviously body shape/mass enters the equation, so if we use your hypothetical scenario of 30" fish in a 30 gallon tank.... A Fire Eel 30" may have the same mass/weight as a 12" Oscar. One would also hope that common sense would also prevail with regard to the size of fish which could be kept, in most cases determined by the width of the tank, so if it's 15" that's your max etc etc. I also made the point of the extraordinary waste load of the large predatory cats make, of which he has a large quantity within his tiny tank.
 
sohfatfish;706838;706838 said:
Don't change 50% of ur water at one shot.. you are going to mess up all your parameters big time and your fish wouldnt be able to adjust to it. Instead start with 10% twice a day and slowly increase it in 4-5 days time to 20% and so on. What you can do immediately is to add more airstones into the tank and improve you filtration capacity in terms of GPH and media. You should also start to find ways to re-house the fish that you have so that the overcrowding will not kill them off. Come on guys lets help do the more urgent thing which is to save the fish and not flame him for housing them inadequately.
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In this situation more drastic action is required. 33% water changes will not cause the tank to re-cycle, I would suggest that new tank syndrome already exists in any event. Drastic problems require drastic solutions, and quickly.10% changes per day at this point (3 Gallons) will barely keep up with the additional burden of the waste products of the fish involved. Remember 13 CATFISH IN A 30 GALLON TANK. And look at the heavy feeding regimen, the bio-load on such a small volume of water. With the Clarias and now the RTC showing no signs of external physical trauma you must thouroughly analyse the water. Another things that worries me is when relative neophytes say the water is clean, and when many add I've just cleaned my external in the sink with tapwater, the filter is spotless and the water clean.
Optically "clean" is not necessarily safe, we then go to (the water) also being "safe, I've checked". There is no unambiguous statement as to what has been checked! pH, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, oxygen, redox, what?
 
pfff... peeps who have no idea what they are doing come here and ask for help and are surprised we burn them down for having a ridiculous stock in a small tank :( :( :( :(
 
thank you soo much guys . ive been too busy with university classes . actually im a noob fishkeeper who only started november last year . i was too excited after seeing a giant red tail for the first time in a local aquaria . it was about 2 to 3 feet and many of them . isince then i read books and stuff . i thought ive read enough . . . you guys have been very kind with all the solutions . as for those who flamed , i take it as a serious lesson that ill never repeat again . thanks guys .
 
I'm happy that you actually started to enjoy fish, and yes, huge RTC's are truly impressive. (Still not sure what your idea was, for when EACH of those many fish got ... say... a couple of inches longer...) but, still, I appreciate the fact that you have taken this lesson seriously, and when you have done your research, your homework, and gotten an adequate size aquarium, we would be more than happy to help you out again.

By the way, a 30 gallon is an awesome little tank. We'd be very happy to help you stock it accordingly.
 
thanks santoury . ill do more research on the fishkeeping topic . im doing diploma in music and currently teaching guitar at local musci school as a part time job . so time is always in the way .

damn i love catfish . anyways the rtc ( i name him rambo ) have eventually eat . a lot . he has grown an inch since i bought him last 3 weeks
 
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