So long story short my brother got into some trouble and got kicked out of his rental.
I knew the landlord and my brother left this behind so I took it for my kids to enjoy.
I know nothing about fish or aquariums.
I’ve had this tanks for about 3 months now.
There’s 8 of 9 gold fish (cichlids?) remaining 1 died this morning, 2 angel fish remaining (1 died about a month ago), 1 mini cat fish looking thing and an algae eater.
Apart from feeding and testing the water every week or so is there anything else I need to do? I tested the water today and all ammonia, nitrates etc are at 0, ph was low so I added some ph up.
Anything I can do or add to improve?
So far I’ve just been winging it but with the couple of deaths I’m not sure how that’s going.
Posted by kinetic01
3 Comments
The things is, do you have the time or are you even willing to learn how to keep fish? If not, it would best to sell it.
You need to do water changes once a week.
Do you have better photos of the fish? We can id and recommend more specific care if they need it.
Ph will be fine as long as it is stable. When it swings after you add a chemical to change it, that can harm the fish. Do you know the ph of your tap water?
First, you need to avoid drastic changes and work to improve the water quality. Try to locate a bottle of water conditioner that removes chlorine from tap water, you’ll need to buy one if you can’t find it. I recommend Seachem Prime. Then fill a bucket of water from the tap, dose it with water conditioner and use that water to fill the tank back up, repeat as needed. That should at least dilute the bad water there and not be too fast of a change for the fish. The next day you can do a real partial water change of about one third, always condition the water you put in. You should get or borrow a book about aquarium care, there’s so much to know but for now just basic maintenance is enough. Don’t open the filter until you know why and what you are doing.
Dosing aquarium chemicals is easiest with a syringe, they’re cheap too.