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Thanks so much, Byron. I too have had bad experiences with wood and rocks...even those from an aquarium store. I have since been trying to eliminate contaminants and as such, have removed all rocks from the tank. And you're right about the general cure, I've never had to use anything like that...

Thanks crystal. I did test the tap water. It sits at 7.8ph, hard, < 5 ppm nitrate, no nitritie or ammonia and chlorine seems pretty standard. I think my cycle must be very sensitive. So much so that I must not be able to add nore than one fish per week. I will seek out some media from an...

Thanks for responding, Munroco. I did test after each death. I have a liquid ammonia test and it shows zero every morning. The test seems to work as I used it during cycling to maintain my ammonia levels. The fish didn't exhibit the common symptoms of ammonia poisoning such as gasping at surface...

I guess I should add that there are no obvious symptoms of ich or velvet. The tank water has no noctious smells. No drastic spikes in water chemistry (testing daily at this point). I don't use cleaning chemicals near the tank. And whatever affects the fish kills ghost shrimp in about 3 days.

Freshwater fish constantly dying! Hi all. New to posting on this forum but have been following threads for quite some time. I've been keeing fish for some 20 years. Parameters. Tank 75gal. Cycled for 2 months fishless cycle. Substrate: caribsea moon sand Filter: sunsun 304b (450gal/hr) Two...