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lil shant
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:16 am    Post subject: fish dieng help me Reply with quote

i just did a water change i added a water conditionwer and salt adn most of my fish died
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t_chelle16
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How much salt did you add? What kind of salt? What were your water readings befor & after the water change? Any symptoms?

-Chelle
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lil shant
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i added two tea spoons of aquarium salt and my water was perdect and now like my bala shark is hecka skinny and my swordtail(that acually lived)_ died and my platy died
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How big is the tank? What are your actual numbers for those readings? What's the pH of the tap water and the tank water? Did you make sure that the water temperatures were the same? How long after the water change did they start dying?

-Chelle
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lil shant
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the ph is 7 and the tank is 10 gallon the temperature was the same and all the fish that i named died before i did a water change and my balla shark which was .5 inches died today i dont know all the reading but the ph
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should get tests for the other 3 things. What fish are left? How long has the tank been set up?

I'm guessing it has to do with water quality.

-Chelle
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RobertaSue98
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:52 am    Post subject: I started my tank.... Reply with quote

It has been running for 2 weeks.....almost 3
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lil shant
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i few mollies a glass fish a black skirt nad the other things the ammonia was good the nitrate was a lil bit high nitrite was good
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are the actual numbers?

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lil shant
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i just got my water checked and it was ammonia 0 nitrtite0 nitrate 0 and he said ur water is great but i dont know y they died
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You shouldn't have a nitrAte reading of 0 and the fact that the guy testing it didn't see anything wrong with that makes me believe he doesn't know what he's doing. I strongly recommend getting your own test kits.

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lil shant
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah well i am getting a test kit but the water seemed perfect after the water change but i still think having the water was bad so i think that is the reason they died
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