This saturday I recieved a small 5 gallon tank. Came with a nice little filter and cheesy hood. I purchased an air pump and a nice air stone for it along with some nice gravel, plastic plants, a rock arch and some cool little hermit crab shells. So any way, my girlfriend, the more experienced fish owner, helps me set it up. We washed everything off, cleaned the gravel and everything, set up the decor and began to fill the water. We put some tablets we brought that would condition the water in and let them fizz away. The water was a nice 72 degrees.
Mean while, we had 6 guppies (4 males 2 females) and 2 siamese algea eaters hanging out in their repective plastic bags. So we dipped them in the water and let them adjust to the temperature in the tank. After about 15 minutes we poured some tank water in their bags and 10 minutes later we fished them out and let them into their new home. We gave them a little stress enzyme and fed them a small amount of flakes later in the evening. All is well so far.
Sunday morning, one of the guppies is upside down in the plants. Our first casulty. Otherwise everthing else is kosher, but one of the yellow male guppies keeps nipping on the fins of another male guppy with an even fancier tail. Jealousy? Or perhaps this fish is just one of those natural born jerks sort of like some people. The two siamese algea eatters and doing there thing along the bottom of the tank togather.
Fast foward to sunday night, the male which i think was the one being picked on, was floating sideways and dead, and one of the siamese algea eaters was not moving and dead. I also noticed the water is slightly cloudier.
So this morning, the other fishes all seem fine, the guppies are in pairs now, 1 male and 1 female each and keep to themself mostly, and i couldnt find the algea eater but he's good at hiding. The water is still slightly cloudy.
Perhaps we brought too many fish for the tank, but do you think it can recover and complete the cycle process without any more dead fish? I was reading on some sites to do a 10% water change every 3 days during the first month. Tonight would be the third day. Any suggestions?
Mean while, we had 6 guppies (4 males 2 females) and 2 siamese algea eaters hanging out in their repective plastic bags. So we dipped them in the water and let them adjust to the temperature in the tank. After about 15 minutes we poured some tank water in their bags and 10 minutes later we fished them out and let them into their new home. We gave them a little stress enzyme and fed them a small amount of flakes later in the evening. All is well so far.
Sunday morning, one of the guppies is upside down in the plants. Our first casulty. Otherwise everthing else is kosher, but one of the yellow male guppies keeps nipping on the fins of another male guppy with an even fancier tail. Jealousy? Or perhaps this fish is just one of those natural born jerks sort of like some people. The two siamese algea eatters and doing there thing along the bottom of the tank togather.
Fast foward to sunday night, the male which i think was the one being picked on, was floating sideways and dead, and one of the siamese algea eaters was not moving and dead. I also noticed the water is slightly cloudier.
So this morning, the other fishes all seem fine, the guppies are in pairs now, 1 male and 1 female each and keep to themself mostly, and i couldnt find the algea eater but he's good at hiding. The water is still slightly cloudy.
Perhaps we brought too many fish for the tank, but do you think it can recover and complete the cycle process without any more dead fish? I was reading on some sites to do a 10% water change every 3 days during the first month. Tonight would be the third day. Any suggestions?
