Please Help Me With My New Setup

[craigthomas2010]

hi i have just set up a 50 litre tank and have in it

heater set to 27 degrees
filter
and air bubble thing

i have set up tank now for 2 days and have just put in
2 mollys
2 guppies
and 2 pink tetras

the water at this point is at 26 degrees / 27

this is my first time with tropical fish

i have filled the tank with tap water along with aquasafe every 10 liters add 5ml of aquasafe


they are not looking to happy mainly the guppies

i have fed them a pinch of flake tropical food

will my fish die off ?
how often do i feed these and how much

please help many thanks

 

[Tolak]

Welcome to TFF! What you have going on now is called a fish in cycle. We have loads of information for new fishkeepers here; http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/277264-beginners-resource-center/

If at all possible return the fish, and do a fishless cycle with ammonia. If this is not an option you will have to do large daily water changes to keep ammonia, and shortly nitrite levels down. A good liquid test kit is a wise investment, the API kit is the one most commonly found & used.

Once you decide between cycling methods we can move forward from there, it is a bit of reading in that link, but will give you a very good start!

 

[simonas]

good advice from Tolak

don;t let this put you off whatever happens but take the advice that really we need to slow down a little

I personally wouldn;t feed for a couple of days and when you do sparingly to enable the filter , water to catch up, I wouldn;t add any more fish either till everything has settled.

 

[Newbie_87]

If you decide to keep the fish, try and get hold of some mature media (from your LFS or someone you might know with a mature tank setup) to kick start your cycle