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  1. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Hi Not sure if people do followups on here - BUT, I'm going to 4 of my neons died in a day - the rest have been cool until one dies last week from a fungal thing, I have been treating the rest of them since then and they seem okay :good: REALLY hoping the disease treatment didn't wipe out all...
  2. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Thanks fish addict - this I have learned (no thanks to aquarium staff).... Hmmm, just had a look and it doesn't seem to fit neon tetra disease, no white cysts. If the worst happens and none of them make it (I don't think the store will mind them for me now :no: )... should I bother getting more...
  3. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    :rip: Three of my neons have died, and the others don't look good - water stats are all the same.... I'm going to do another water change just to make sure. They have a new symptom, whitish, ragged edges on their fins - not sure if its fungal or damage from bashing into the filter, a lot of...
  4. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Lol - I made sure I asked for someone that had owned fish at home for a while But now I have more issues!! My neons looked fantastic, swimming around, I thought: yay! They have settled in - now two hours later I think they are dying!! :sad: They are floating about, unable to stay upright...
  5. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Hi again - so I went out and bought some more test kits Nitrite - 0 Ammonium - 0 pH is down to 6, but that I can adjust easily The water is a litttle hard, but again - that is an easy fix, especially as I work in a lab and have access to unlimited distilled water. I also went to my local pet...
  6. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Thanks, yet again, for the advice!! It doesn't really match anything on the site, I will keep an eye on it and maybe purchase some of the recommended products anyway. A few hours on, and the neons seemed to be acting more normally - of course, I turned on the tank light and they swam back to...
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  9. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Thanks!! I did the water change straight away - since then some of them have been swimming about a bit more, but still looking stressed, and the swimmers have been on their own, which has me worried - but still, mostly just hiding. I've attached 2 pics of my plants - one is a red-purple plant...
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  11. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Okay - I just read the guide for new posters, sorry I didn't follow the format, hopefully I covered everything - but here it is again in a less waffly format: Tank size: 22L pH: ~6.4 ammonia: 0ppm nitrite: unknown (!!) nitrate: unknown kH: gH:unknown, but followed recommendations on box for...
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  13. Apotheosis

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  14. Apotheosis

    Help Needed With My New Tank!

    Eep! Some help, advice or even possibly justififed berating is needed! I am complete newbie to aquariums, although my Mum had fish for years and years when I was a kid, but I'm not certain how much of her advice I should take as it seems to have changed over the last 20 years - so some help from...
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