We - me and my partner - bought a fish tank few weeks ago. I've never had fish before, and it's been years since my bf had a tank (it was his dad's really... 
)
Anyway this is what we did:
We bought second hand tank - app. 2ftx1ftx1ft. And we bought some chemicals - tapwater thing and Ph 6,5 thing... (I wish my English was better here...) And of course, water tester kit.
Because we were impatient we bought some fish next day - the water test at the LFS was perfect according them. And we got:
2 chocolate mollies
2 female guppies 1 male
2 sunset platy
the recommended not buying any plants for new tank.
The fishes seemed happy and all...
Few days later, another LFS we bought (yes, I know, too early, but
that's just me... )
1 male betta
5 neon tetras
Day later one of our chocolate mollies died for no apparent reason - we tested the water, all normal (to the instructions of yet another LFS where bf bought the chemicals) basicly: NO3 <25mg, NO2<14mg, KH 3 (who on earth I'm gonna do taht circle up in the air?) and ph 6,5. I know now (after lurking here) that the test kit should test for at least ammonia as well.
Then, 2 days later apparently the other chocolate molly had babies. We managed to see the last one of them being eaten (Having been away all day)
Few days later our betta started to look bit down - and eventually hid behind the heater constantly and, according the man, prolly burnt himself. Anyway, he died. We took him back to the fish shop, as they provided their fishes with warranty - they wanted water sample too.
Only thing they said about the water was that ammonia was bit high, but that would be expected with the betta dying - and also that the water was due for change next day really...
We bought some plants for the refund, to provide more oxygen in the tank. (as we're waiting for new airpump to arrive on postal order, as the one that came with the tank was packed up. Currently the filter pump provides the air in the water. And it's hell noisy...)
Next day bf did 50% water change. And managed to kill (we assume) one of the guppies...
Then the male guppy choked on bloodworm... that he'd been prolly choking on for a day...
And later same day, neon tetra decided to get stuck in the filter...
And today I found neon tetra dead.
Water statistics stay all the same all the time.
Is this amouth of deaths really normal, are we just unlucky or is our tank cursed?
)Anyway this is what we did:
We bought second hand tank - app. 2ftx1ftx1ft. And we bought some chemicals - tapwater thing and Ph 6,5 thing... (I wish my English was better here...) And of course, water tester kit.
Because we were impatient we bought some fish next day - the water test at the LFS was perfect according them. And we got:
2 chocolate mollies
2 female guppies 1 male
2 sunset platy
the recommended not buying any plants for new tank.
The fishes seemed happy and all...
Few days later, another LFS we bought (yes, I know, too early, but
that's just me... )1 male betta
5 neon tetras
Day later one of our chocolate mollies died for no apparent reason - we tested the water, all normal (to the instructions of yet another LFS where bf bought the chemicals) basicly: NO3 <25mg, NO2<14mg, KH 3 (who on earth I'm gonna do taht circle up in the air?) and ph 6,5. I know now (after lurking here) that the test kit should test for at least ammonia as well.
Then, 2 days later apparently the other chocolate molly had babies. We managed to see the last one of them being eaten
(Having been away all day) Few days later our betta started to look bit down - and eventually hid behind the heater constantly and, according the man, prolly burnt himself. Anyway, he died. We took him back to the fish shop, as they provided their fishes with warranty - they wanted water sample too.
Only thing they said about the water was that ammonia was bit high, but that would be expected with the betta dying - and also that the water was due for change next day really...
We bought some plants for the refund, to provide more oxygen in the tank. (as we're waiting for new airpump to arrive on postal order, as the one that came with the tank was packed up. Currently the filter pump provides the air in the water. And it's hell noisy...)
Next day bf did 50% water change. And managed to kill (we assume) one of the guppies...
Then the male guppy choked on bloodworm... that he'd been prolly choking on for a day...
And later same day, neon tetra decided to get stuck in the filter...
And today I found neon tetra dead.
Water statistics stay all the same all the time.
Is this amouth of deaths really normal, are we just unlucky or is our tank cursed?
