Help1 Why Are My Fish Dying?

[kate98]

talked to dad and yeah we arent going back to the LFS

but now im starting to clean the tank is there any things that can help cycle the water?
but not anything that i will need to by cause ive alrady spent my money

so yeah and would you have any pointers for when i clean it?

 

[fluttermoth]

The only thing that can sped up your cycle is to get hold of some mature, cycled media from another tank.

Apart from that, it's just plenty (daily, in your case, I would say) of large water changes.

As long as the new water is temperature matched and dechlorinated you won't have problems.

 

[kate98]

The only thing that can sped up your cycle is to get hold of some mature, cycled media from another tank.

Apart from that, it's just plenty (daily, in your case, I would say) of large water changes.

As long as the new water is temperature matched and dechlorinated you won't have problems.

matured cycled media???

 

[ZoddyZod]

mature cycled media is stuff (foam pads, ceramic balls, etc) that has been in a running filter for many months. It therefore already has some of the bacteria on it that consumes the harmful ammonia and nitrite. If you have a friend that already owns a fish tank, maybe they would be willing to give you some of their filter media to place in yours?

 

[kate98]

mature cycled media is stuff (foam pads, ceramic balls, etc) that has been in a running filter for many months. It therefore already has some of the bacteria on it that consumes the harmful ammonia and nitrite. If you have a friend that already owns a fish tank, maybe they would be willing to give you some of their filter media to place in yours?

noone i know has a fish tank O__o

 

[ZoddyZod]

in that case it is large daily water changes that you will need to be doing to avoid the build up ammonia.

on a tank that size and with the fish you have, I would be doing multiple water changes daily as there is so little water volume to dillute the ammonia.

always use dechlorinator and always try to match the new waters temperature to that of the tank (avoid shocking the fish). It doesn't have to be incredibly accurate, just use your hand to see if the two temperatures are similar.

Please do have a good read in the beginners section and the 'cycling' threads. This will really help you understand the situation you are now in.

 

[kate98]

in that case it is large daily water changes that you will need to be doing to avoid the build up ammonia.

on a tank that size and with the fish you have, I would be doing multiple water changes daily as there is so little water volume to dillute the ammonia.

always use dechlorinator and always try to match the new waters temperature to that of the tank (avoid shocking the fish). It doesn't have to be incredibly accurate, just use your hand to see if the two temperatures are similar.

Please do have a good read in the beginners section and the 'cycling' threads. This will really help you understand the situation you are now in.

thank you, today i cleaned the tank and did the dechloriniser stuff in and set the heatr to 25 degrees and yeah

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

If you are not going to even attempt to return the fish, you need to sort them out with a considerably bigger volume of water then this 9l tank, even at 50p size fish. As already stated several times in this thread, that 9l tank is only just debateably big enough for a single Betta, but unquestionably too small for any of the fish you bought. Small tanks can very quickly turn poisonous to fish, it is far safer to start with a tank of at least 150l, regardless of what fish are planned.

If buying a proper fish tank is out of the question (there are usually loads of second-hand bargins on Ebay and Aquarist-Classified.co.uk), pop along to a local store that sells large plastic containers with dimension of at least 60x30x30cm but the bigger the better (ultimately your Angelfish will need a tank with at least 45cm of actual water depth). When I was desperate for an extra tank last year, I paid £13 for a ~110l plastic container ~65x35x40, it was not pretty but it was functional.