KBaBy2989
New Member
hi, i'm new so i'm not exactly sure what i'm doing here but i'm willing to try anything to save my fish. so here's the deal:
me and my dad just set up our old hexagonal fish tank about a month ago, maybe a little more than that after 1 week we got a few fish and gradually added more and more. we had a blue paradise gourami, bala shark, snakeskin gourami, pictus catfish, golden gourami, rosy barb, and 1 painted tetra (i didnt find out what kind of fish this was until well after i bought, otherwise i wouldnt've bought it, but i'm not gunna disown it now, i just wont go back to that fish store) so those 7 fish were perfectly fine for awhile until the other day me and my dad went to petco and picked up some new fish. we got 2 long finned danios, 2 bleeding hearts, and 1 albino catfish. They seemed fine the first day and they all got along and there were no problems of fighting and the tank wasn't overcrowded. but later that afternoon i looked in the tank and 1 of the danios had a bunch of red spots all over it and kept going in and out of what seemed like a coma, i did notice a few red spots when he came home from the pet store but ignored it. i thot maybe he had a disease. he died later that nite. the next morning i found the albino catfish dead w/ a red spot on it. i noticed the other danio had a red spot on it but otherwise was fine. i found him dead in the tank the next morning. i also noticed that one of the bleeding hearts was discolored and has 2 large white spots, one on it's stomach and one on it's back, but it wasnt small like ick is. that fish died that afternoon when it started acting funny and swimming upside down. so 4/5 fish from petco had died and my gouramis were starting to act funny. one kept jerking back and forth, one was very very sluggish and kept resting at the bottom of the tank looking dead. me and my dad went to petco with one of the live gouramis, a sample of water, and the dead bleeding heart. we had been there a few days ago when the first fish died and they said teh water was fine but we wanted to check. they told us the water was fine and it didnt look like there was a disease among the fish. i didnt really know wat to do after that cuz i thot they were suppose to help me but they didnt help very much. so i went home put the fish back in the tank and everything seemed fine, minus the odd behavior already going on. the next morning, which was this morning i woke up to find my golden gourami dead. he had not marks on him tho i was quite upset to find out this ahd happened. also the other gourami that had been acting very sluggish looked very very sick and i noticed that his fins did look nipped at especially from the bottom. i watched the fish for quite some time and noticed that the painted tetra seemed to be nipping at the bala shark who did have a few scales that seemed to be missing. he was attacking from underneath the bala shark and nipping his underside. the only other nipper was the bleeding heart who was chasing the painted tetra. so i removed the painted tetra in hopes of settling things down. about 20 minutes ago the paradise gourami died. he was the one looking very sick. so out of 12 fish, i have 6 left and i have no idea what's going on. i dont know if there was a disease of if the painted tetra really had killed all those fish, althpugh i jsut noticed it nipping recently, of my a mix of both? if you have any ideas PLEASE help me and my fish.
me and my dad just set up our old hexagonal fish tank about a month ago, maybe a little more than that after 1 week we got a few fish and gradually added more and more. we had a blue paradise gourami, bala shark, snakeskin gourami, pictus catfish, golden gourami, rosy barb, and 1 painted tetra (i didnt find out what kind of fish this was until well after i bought, otherwise i wouldnt've bought it, but i'm not gunna disown it now, i just wont go back to that fish store) so those 7 fish were perfectly fine for awhile until the other day me and my dad went to petco and picked up some new fish. we got 2 long finned danios, 2 bleeding hearts, and 1 albino catfish. They seemed fine the first day and they all got along and there were no problems of fighting and the tank wasn't overcrowded. but later that afternoon i looked in the tank and 1 of the danios had a bunch of red spots all over it and kept going in and out of what seemed like a coma, i did notice a few red spots when he came home from the pet store but ignored it. i thot maybe he had a disease. he died later that nite. the next morning i found the albino catfish dead w/ a red spot on it. i noticed the other danio had a red spot on it but otherwise was fine. i found him dead in the tank the next morning. i also noticed that one of the bleeding hearts was discolored and has 2 large white spots, one on it's stomach and one on it's back, but it wasnt small like ick is. that fish died that afternoon when it started acting funny and swimming upside down. so 4/5 fish from petco had died and my gouramis were starting to act funny. one kept jerking back and forth, one was very very sluggish and kept resting at the bottom of the tank looking dead. me and my dad went to petco with one of the live gouramis, a sample of water, and the dead bleeding heart. we had been there a few days ago when the first fish died and they said teh water was fine but we wanted to check. they told us the water was fine and it didnt look like there was a disease among the fish. i didnt really know wat to do after that cuz i thot they were suppose to help me but they didnt help very much. so i went home put the fish back in the tank and everything seemed fine, minus the odd behavior already going on. the next morning, which was this morning i woke up to find my golden gourami dead. he had not marks on him tho i was quite upset to find out this ahd happened. also the other gourami that had been acting very sluggish looked very very sick and i noticed that his fins did look nipped at especially from the bottom. i watched the fish for quite some time and noticed that the painted tetra seemed to be nipping at the bala shark who did have a few scales that seemed to be missing. he was attacking from underneath the bala shark and nipping his underside. the only other nipper was the bleeding heart who was chasing the painted tetra. so i removed the painted tetra in hopes of settling things down. about 20 minutes ago the paradise gourami died. he was the one looking very sick. so out of 12 fish, i have 6 left and i have no idea what's going on. i dont know if there was a disease of if the painted tetra really had killed all those fish, althpugh i jsut noticed it nipping recently, of my a mix of both? if you have any ideas PLEASE help me and my fish.
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