I enjoy newly started a topical aquarium but the marine have gone completely cloudy and 2 of my bright fish hold died.?
The Ph level is 8 and the water temp is 28 degrees adjectives the equipment is new and I did not rush in putting the fish in the cistern. I do have 2 new live plants as well. Could someone please relieve with advice on how I can fix these problems? I would hate to have an idea that I am doing harm to any fish I put into the tank.
take a spec of river to an Aquaria and they can test it and are nowadays very expert within all things FISHY and will give you advice.
Have a read of this page.
http://www.fishlore.com/NitrogenCycle.ht...
What it means is that when you set up a alien tank you have no biological filtering to remove lavish ammonia from the water. The cloudy water indicates a bloom of bacteria as the cycle get established.
Best emergency treatment is to do some large partial water changes to develop the water quality temporarily untill the cycle gets started.
Adding fish to a alien tank has to be done very supportively. Just running a tank empty will do no good. You enjoy to have a source of ammonia to start the cycle. If you are using fish to start the cycle you MUST start out with just a few small ones.
Ian
Answers: We need more information contained by order to help you.
Do you have any testing results for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate?
How long was the tank set up before you get the fish?
What type of fish do you have?
How big is the tank?
28*C is too hot for most fish and there aren't copious fish that appreciate pH of 8 - for tropical fish, you'd be talking African lake cichlids, really
I'd be more than happy to facilitate you if you can answer those questions :-) .
EDIT// Thanks for getting back to us.
Sorry to read out this, but the store was lying to you! You need to be able to trial for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate as well as pH. Nor was the tank equipped for fish by the time you added them. It takes around 3-6 weeks on average to cycle a tank from scratch, and the introduction of fish to the container during this time is almost guaranteed to make them very sick, but there IS something you can do to increase the chances of the surviving fish making it:
* Buy a test utensils, such as the API liquid based test paraphernalia and a bottle of dechloronator such as Aquasafe or AquaPlus.
* Carry out an immediate 50% water change using dechloronated tapwater (use both the hot and cold tap to get the temperature as close to the same temp as the wet in the tank).
* Test the water for ammonia and nitrite every day and conveyance around 15% of the tank volume until ammonia and nitrite are 0. Keep testing daily for a week after the toxins arrive at 0 to ensure they stay at that level.
* Reduce feeding to once every other day and remove any residue after 3 minutes.
* DO NOT add any more fish until the tank is fully cycled.
Just as lanab have suggested read about nitrogen cycle and also visit the following site for more.
http://www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/n...
The store be talking crap as you have first hand proof.
The cloudy sea is infusoria and that will disappear after a day or two, but your ammonia will spike at the same time. The PH is currently 8, but that is because your reservoir is cycling, it will come down when bacteria convert the ammonia into nitrite. Still not good as the nitrite is also poison to fish. Mucking about beside the Temperature does the fish no good, 28C is far to high, 26C would be alright if the cistern was cycled, but I would go down to 24C, just to slow the Gourami's biorhythms down.
Emergency measures to carry the ammonia under control. There's a number of products that will neutralise it http://www.e-aquarium.com.au/buy/water/a... and I would be tempted to use one surrounded by this case while the filter matures. You will also have to do day by day water changes, but you want some ammonia present to kick start the cycle, so you can't remove to much. 10% day by day while things sort themselves out. Gourami are labyrinth fish so they have a reasonable accidental of survival, though they will be hovering close to the surface.
You need to understand what a cycle is within relation to your fishes welfare and Ian's advice is sound as always.
I contemplate changing fish stores would be a good idea.
possibly they dont like it
