endilliteracy
Fish Crazy
Okay here is my situation:
My brother has a 10 gallon with 4 ghost shrimp, a male betta, 3 albino cories, and 2 green cories. His tank consisted of rainbow gravel, glow-in-the-dark plants and things like that. He mentioned that he wanted more of a natural look for his tank so I brought him to Walmart and let him pick out some gravel. He picked out a light brown color, which is very pretty.
I also donated a couple of clippings from my live plants to his tank in exchange for his fake glow-in-the-dark ones.
So we unplugged everything from the 10 gal. so we could remove the gravel and also do a water change. When everything was done, the gravel had turned the water completely brown! And I even washed the gravel thoroughly! I rinsed it in a big pot, twirled my hands through it to wash it all around, poured it in a big strainer, then repeated about 10 times. I didn't have anymore dechlor to change the water so I frantically ran out to walmart and bought a big bottle of it. I came back and emptied out almost all of the water (about 80%) I plugged everything back in and walked back to my room because my boyfriend and I had just rented movies for the night. I finished watching my movie and came out to check if the tank cleared up some more. I saw all of the cories laying on their sides, half-dead! The ghost shrimp and the betta were fine! I looked at the filter and it wasn't working!
This resulted in 2 dead albino cories.
I flushed them and scooped the rest out. I dumped them into my tank in a panic and the rest all swam away. Still breathing hard and looking half-dead. I checked this morning and 2 out of 3 of the cories seem back to normal. The other green cory isn't moving and there is reddish pink around his eyes.
I put the ghost shrimp in my breeding net with my baby mollies because they would be safe there I assumed. I only see 2 in the net now, so I suppose the other two jumped out. I didn't want to put them in my main tank because they would get eaten in 2 seconds.
The betta is in a small glass bowl with brown gravel and 3 live plants. It is about 1-2 gallons.
So I am re-doing the 10 gallon. New water, new gravel, new plants, everything! I need a fish to cycle it with, but it has to get along with a male betta as the male betta will go back into that tank as soon as it is cycled. Please help me out.
My brother has a 10 gallon with 4 ghost shrimp, a male betta, 3 albino cories, and 2 green cories. His tank consisted of rainbow gravel, glow-in-the-dark plants and things like that. He mentioned that he wanted more of a natural look for his tank so I brought him to Walmart and let him pick out some gravel. He picked out a light brown color, which is very pretty.
I also donated a couple of clippings from my live plants to his tank in exchange for his fake glow-in-the-dark ones. So we unplugged everything from the 10 gal. so we could remove the gravel and also do a water change. When everything was done, the gravel had turned the water completely brown! And I even washed the gravel thoroughly! I rinsed it in a big pot, twirled my hands through it to wash it all around, poured it in a big strainer, then repeated about 10 times. I didn't have anymore dechlor to change the water so I frantically ran out to walmart and bought a big bottle of it. I came back and emptied out almost all of the water (about 80%) I plugged everything back in and walked back to my room because my boyfriend and I had just rented movies for the night. I finished watching my movie and came out to check if the tank cleared up some more. I saw all of the cories laying on their sides, half-dead! The ghost shrimp and the betta were fine! I looked at the filter and it wasn't working!
This resulted in 2 dead albino cories.
I flushed them and scooped the rest out. I dumped them into my tank in a panic and the rest all swam away. Still breathing hard and looking half-dead. I checked this morning and 2 out of 3 of the cories seem back to normal. The other green cory isn't moving and there is reddish pink around his eyes. I put the ghost shrimp in my breeding net with my baby mollies because they would be safe there I assumed. I only see 2 in the net now, so I suppose the other two jumped out. I didn't want to put them in my main tank because they would get eaten in 2 seconds.
The betta is in a small glass bowl with brown gravel and 3 live plants. It is about 1-2 gallons.
So I am re-doing the 10 gallon. New water, new gravel, new plants, everything! I need a fish to cycle it with, but it has to get along with a male betta as the male betta will go back into that tank as soon as it is cycled. Please help me out.
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