They're Just Too Stinkin' Cute! *pics Added*

[little_mermaid]

Is the tank cycled?

It's filtered if that's what you mean...

 

[little_mermaid]

Awwww thats so sad to hear that

I love corys, I use to have an albino one, he had such a great personality (as weird as that may sound)

I think their such a great fish to watch. Sadly mine passed away to a couple of weeks ago, was rather upsetting. Especially because i had him for months.

xx

thanks and i'm sorry about your Cory too...but yeah they're adorable...

 

[Cory_Dad]

Crap. I hate when this happens.

Reality check. (alarm bells going off in my head, and no, it's not a hang over)

Your answer to Kets' question about the tank being cycled leads me to believe that the answer is 'no'.

You must understand that like we humans depend on clean air to survive, fish depend on their water to be clean, free from harmful chemicals and oxygenated for them to survive.

Fish, decaying food, etc. produce ammonia which is harmful to the fish. You need to either do daily water changes or have your filtered 'cycled'. That means there must be bacteria culture in the filter that will convert the ammonia to nitrite which is also toxic to fish. There must also be bacteria in the filter that will convert the nitrite into nitrate which although toxic in high amounts is not nearly as bad as the former two. The nitrate can be controlled with live plants and weekly 25% water changes.

It can take up to 4 to 5 weeks to get a new tank cycled (Google it or search this or other forums) which means getting the nitrifying bacteria established.

Please, go to your library or book store or search the web and read up on this. It's the most critical part of fish keeping and you must understand it.

Until you do, you'll be spending a lot of time at the fish store buying fish to replace the ones that just died. As a child many years ago, that's what I did. Back them we just didn't know.

Please understand, this is not a put down. We've all been through it.

Good luck and cheers.

 

[OldMan47]

To get that tank cycled when you have a fish in the tank, read the fish-in link in my signature. It explains what you need to be doing to have the remaining fish survive.