Nikki wrote:
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I'll continue monitoring my levels to see if the Ammonia keeps rising.
The first one that died yesterday was probably dead in the tank for at
least half of the day when I was at work. The second for not very
long.

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I hope you're not bringing them home and putting them into your tank
without acclimating them to your water conditions. We used to call that
PH shock but more is involved that others can better explain. There is
one store that has a PH of 6.6 to 6.8 and their water is very soft. If I
just add fish from there to my Quarantine tank (everything gets
quarantined here) with it's high alkalinity, hardness and PH of 7.8, I am
almost guaranteed to lose most of them.
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jon, sorry, guess i was wrong....i just know when i used to change my
filters alot i had problems and someone told me it was not a great idea to
change them to often, i think we may have different filters. But when i
clean mine off i just scoop out some water from the tank and rinse it, but
mine also overflows when it gets yucky. Nik

koi
as you are getting them used to your water, do you put water from your tank
into their bag?
that's what I do, but I'm sure not long enough, but I have not lost fish
from it yet, then again me an the fish store are probably using the same
water she is only five min from me, anyway how long do you wait before
putting them in your tank?
just wondering?
have you ever spilled the bag with fish in it while trying to do it, I hate
those stupid bags, I got some little guppies for my sons tank he wants
something with his ADF, and as I was putting the water in the bag from his
tank, over it went, fish were all over my kitchen counter, my six year old
did not think it was funny, but my two older ones "teenagers" of course were
laughing so hard, I'm trying to get them to help me catch them and they had
to leave the room they were laughing so hard, anyway not the first time I
have done that to some innocent fish, they should put something at the
bottom of the bags so they sit up right when you take the band off.



ROFLOL - I tried putting some Panda cories and some Amano shrimps into
my new tank yesterday....the bags just floated off into obscurity....I
managed to catch the Panda bag and drip feed them a bit more but the
shrimps had already gone off into the great beyond...I've had fish jump
from the bag once I snip the top - fortunately into the tank water
rather than onto the floor...but Yep, I still do the drip, drip stuff by
the rules even though the fish have proved it unnecessary from time to
time....or just decided they can't be bothered with it and want straight
in....(but my LFS water is the same pH and hardness as mine)

Gill