Dead fish :(
I inherited a big tropical fish tank via Ruth and Paul as a late birthday present a couple of weeks ago.
It was *disgusting* and smelled bad and was *full* of lethargic fish and millions of tiny water snails.
We saved as many as we could and cleaned everything up, and I now have an awesome free fishtank :D
...but I've found 3 dead ones in the last 3 days :(
Took a smaple of water to the beautiful one-eyed girl at the aquarium shop by the office today for testing. She said it's probably just because the bacteria in the filter isn't coping well yet. There were low levels of ammonia and nitrites that my dipsticks hadn't picked up.
So the fish are officially on a 2 day fast to let things settle down again, then I have to take another sample in to her next week to see how things are going.
Poor fish.
It was *disgusting* and smelled bad and was *full* of lethargic fish and millions of tiny water snails.
We saved as many as we could and cleaned everything up, and I now have an awesome free fishtank :D
...but I've found 3 dead ones in the last 3 days :(
Took a smaple of water to the beautiful one-eyed girl at the aquarium shop by the office today for testing. She said it's probably just because the bacteria in the filter isn't coping well yet. There were low levels of ammonia and nitrites that my dipsticks hadn't picked up.
So the fish are officially on a 2 day fast to let things settle down again, then I have to take another sample in to her next week to see how things are going.
Poor fish.