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That’s pretty much what I’m doing. No other choice lol I am extremely emotionally attached to the angels and I really hope they survive. The one just looks so rough

Excellent, I’m happy about the plants. As far as the ph goes I’ve resigned myself from fixing it. It’ll just have to do what it’s gonna do and I’ll keep hoping that some of the fish survive. Will the ph naturally fluctuate while it’s cycling?

****UPDATE**** I want to continue to thank everyone for their advice, tips, and hints on how to fix my problem. My master kit arrived last week as I previously posted it I have been testing the pH every day I have managed to get the pH down to about 8.0- 8.2, still very terrible I know. But...

Wow thank you I think this is actually the key piece of information no one’s ever told me it takes four weeks for a tank to cycle I thought it was maybe two or three days I guess I’m going to ride this out and see who lives.

What should I do? Or should I just leave it alone? At this point I’m ready to burn it down

Another update The pet store did not have any medications so I had to order them offline. My master kit came today and golly g willikers. The pH is 7.8 Ammonia is 2.0ppm Nitrite is 0ppm Nitrate is 20ppm

I’m heading to the pet store now. Motivation in full force lol

Fortunately the filter was not dried out so I think I was able to save the bacteria. Called an aquatic vet this morning and he instructed me to add five heaping tablespoons of salt to my tank(29 gallons, I think about 94 cm³) to help and to purchase the antibiotics you mentioned, but he didn’t...

OK so as helpless as I’ve felt since I started this thread I have been doing the right thing. It’s really hard to just leave them alone when you see them looking so bad. I’ve had this tank running consecutively for like 10 years and I’ve never had a problem. the worst thing I’ve ever dealt...

So should I still try to medicate my fish? Or should I just let it cycle and let them die? This message board is great but I really wish I could just call someone on the phone and then they can explain it all to me I feel like I should just send my fish to a rescue and give up. ☹️☹️

I found my filter along with my plants I had left them sitting in a bucket of the old tank water and forgotten about them until Sunday. Was it still alive sitting in the bucket or did the bacteria die anyway? When I found it in the bucket what kind of rinsed it in the water that was there and...

**UPDATE** I’ve lost another fish and two more have developed the fuzzy spots on their back. Upon further research it appears I have a columnaris infection in my tank. The angel is swimming better but his sore hasn’t improved.

It seems to be swimming around more and actually using its dorsal fin so I’m hoping that’s a good sign. Thanks for the advice, I’ll be making another trip to petsmart.

UPDATE: I have ordered a master test kit. If I did the math correctly {(76.5x31.5x40)/1000} the volume is 96.39 cm³ By some stroke of luck I found the sponge that was in with the old carbon filter in it’s gross old glory so I lightly rinsed the large debris off it and put it where the...

I am not sure on the ph but the lady showed me the strip and it was the next to last shade of green on the top scale in the photo. I will be returning the chemicals tomorrow as well as another fish that has unfortunately passed away since I posted this. I will take note of your water change...

Just the regular activated carbon filter and nothing else.

When I cleaned the gravel I used a gravel vacuum until the top of the gravel wasn’t fuzzy anymore. (The too much food fuzz) it pulled about 10%of the water out doing that and then I vacuumed again after letting the debris settle back on the gravel and pulled about another 20% of the water...

I don’t even know where to start. It’s bad. I neglected my tank for sometime but the fish were cool, they had their homeostasis going on. I decided that I wanted to add a few more fish to my tank, so I cleaned the tank and the gravel lightly and let it run about a week to run it’s cycle. The...