EMERGENCY! Dying fish. Bullied guppy. Need help

[Rocky998]

Apparently after your tank is cycled you cant add all your fish at once? Your meant to add a few at a time. Is this true and if it is why? People keep saying your meant to including myraan.

Im going to be quaranting my gudgeons for a few weeks and then adding them, after that I will quarantine the lambchop rasboras for a few weeks and then add...

 

[Obsessed with fish]

Theoretically you can - but it's better to be safe than sorry. If you leave a week between each new addition of fish you can check for ammonia just in case.

It helps you beneficial bacteria keep up. Add too many fish at once and it won’t be able to handle it all. If you need to add all your fish at once, you can just make sure to test it and do water changes whenever there is ammonia reading

ok thankyou, i will add half the fish on 1 week and half the 2nd week

 

[Obsessed with fish]

Im going to be quaranting my gudgeons for a few weeks and then adding them, after that I will quarantine the lambchop rasboras for a few weeks and then add...

thats a smrt way to do things but my hospital tanks only 1/2 a gallon and my 3 galllon has a dandrous betta.

 

[OliveFish05]

thats a smrt way to do things but my hospital tanks only 1/2 a gallon and my 3 galllon has a dandrous betta.

Your best option then is just adding all your fish to the 22 gallon tank. Stress is the main cause of disease

 

[Myraan]

Just remember to use your test kit and ammonia to check it actually is cycled and you should be fine

 

[Rocky998]

Your best option then is just adding all your fish to the 22 gallon tank. Stress is the main cause of disease

Different things can work for different people

 

[Obsessed with fish]

Ok im gonna add the 2 dwarf goumaris in the 1st week and the othe fish in the 2nd week.

 

[Rocky998]

thats a smrt way to do things but my hospital tanks only 1/2 a gallon and my 3 galllon has a dandrous betta.

A 1/2 gallon hospital tank ... I would reccomend a 5 gallon for that.

 

[Obsessed with fish]

Just remember to use your test kit and ammonia to check it actually is cycled and you should be fine

ill test every 2nd or 3rd day after its been a few weeks.

 

[Obsessed with fish]

A 1/2 gallon hospital tank ... I would reccomend a 5 gallon for that.

i cant currently afford 1 emty 5 gallon box, if i ever get a 3rd tank ill get a 5 gal hospital.

 

[Myraan]

Half a tank of fish if you wrong about it being cycled will be easier to deal with than the entire stock as they will be producing half the ammonia is all we mean. But plenty of people will say the advantage of fishless cycle is the ability to 100% stock. I just prefer to be over-cautious.

 

[Rocky998]

Ok im gonna add the 2 dwarf goumaris in the 1st week and the othe fish in the 2nd week.

I have heard that gouramis can be aggressive so what I would do is add some of the other fish first and then the dwarf gourami to hopefully get the gouramis to realize that they were there before them and they wont fight... Thats how I view it at least...

 

[Rocky998]

i cant currently afford 1 emty 5 gallon box, if i ever get a 3rd tank ill get a 5 gal hospital.

Rlly? At wal-mart its like $14

 

[Rocky998]

Rlly? At wal-mart its like $14

Oh, I forgot... You are in a different country... Sorry I forgot

 

[Rocky998]

Oh, I forgot... You are in a different country... Sorry I forgot

Unless you do have wal-marts out there