Hello, I just bought my aquarium this tuesday, and bought about 8 fish. What I observed is that one pair or yellow bright fish ( don't remember the name now...) were pretty nice and bright on the shops fishtank, but they've turned pale, also a pair of blue ones. I asked the shop guy and told me it was stress, and I poured the quantity that he told me of anti stress solution. What might be another problem that is causing that my fish lose it's color? It's a 20 gallon freshwater tank. And also... there's this layer of tiny tiny bubbles on the water surface and the water looks a bit cloudy cause it's full of bubbles, anyone know what might be the problem? PLS HELP! THanx A L O T!!!
Pale coloring... Stress?
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Sounds like you are experiencing new tank syndrom, did you cycle your tank? You should look around for info on new tank syndrom on this site or do a google search. The cycling processes takes many weeks and unless the fish are hardy they don't have much chance to survive the process. Basically a cycled tank has a population of benifitial bacteria that help break down the dangerous waste products of fish ammonia into nitrite and then finally into "relatively harmless" nitrate. The product your LFS gave you won't do anything to help the fish out at this stage.
There are test kits out there that measure ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate it the water, did you happen to buy any of these test kits? If not go out and at least buy an ammonia and nitrite test kit, they are a must. Once you have these kits test the water and post the results.
WRT the bubbles, if the water came out of the tap recently, say in the past two days, then dissolved gasses in the water will form little bubbles everywhere.
Good luck!
There are test kits out there that measure ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate it the water, did you happen to buy any of these test kits? If not go out and at least buy an ammonia and nitrite test kit, they are a must. Once you have these kits test the water and post the results.
WRT the bubbles, if the water came out of the tap recently, say in the past two days, then dissolved gasses in the water will form little bubbles everywhere.
Good luck!
Yeah, the most important question is how big is your tank and what type of fish do you have? New tank syndrome could be the problem and causing your fish to stress out. Pale backgrounds and decorations will also cause fish to lighten up in order to blend into their surroundings. Bright light will also cause fish to pale.
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Agree with Captain and cole. Do a waterchange ASAP with dechlorinated water. Do you have a heater?
Waterchange: siphon out about 25% of the water (5g, or one bucket), then add back water at the same temperature that has been dechlorinated.
Do that daily, please. Your tank sounds like it's cycling. The cloudiness suggests this, and if you want those new fish of yours to survive you have to keep the toxins/fish pee/ ammonia at this stage at non fatal levels. That is accomplished with WATER CHANGES.
There ARE some filter stuffings that you can use to absorb ammonia, but the BEST way to get through this is waterchanges, IMO
Waterchange: siphon out about 25% of the water (5g, or one bucket), then add back water at the same temperature that has been dechlorinated.
Do that daily, please. Your tank sounds like it's cycling. The cloudiness suggests this, and if you want those new fish of yours to survive you have to keep the toxins/fish pee/ ammonia at this stage at non fatal levels. That is accomplished with WATER CHANGES.
There ARE some filter stuffings that you can use to absorb ammonia, but the BEST way to get through this is waterchanges, IMO