The bacteria you have bought is usually more gimmick than saver of the day.
If you don't want to do water changes.... then DON't feed!!
Fish should be right with a few days of not eating.
Do a nice big water change (to dilute the toxic ammonia/nitrite)
Add your bacteria in a bottle (would be much better to add a bit of sponge
from a filter thats been setup for a while)
and hope for best.

If you could take out some fish that would be good
otherwise
keep up the partial waterchanges
prob for 2 weeks or so
by doing the water changes, you are keeping the fish alive
Ammonia and nitrite do PERMANENT damage to fish
so reducing it as much as possible NOW means your fish will live longer
LATER.
I know, that the bottle of bacteria was probably expensive.
But ya gotta dilute those toxins.
Once you get a result 0ppm ammonia and 0ppm nitrite
then you can slow the partial water changes down and slowly increase the
food fed.





"EA" wrote in message
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Now that we've bought this bacteria, should we still be doing the
partial daily water changes?

Thanks!


n Apr 11, 4:30 pm, "swarvegorilla" wrote:
Far too many fish, far too quickly and far too small a tank!!!
Your filter is brand new.... not good mate.
unless you fed the tank fish food for the 2 months before the fish went
in.... then there will be very very very few waste processing bacteria
in
the tank.
Not good now they have to take care of 8 fishes poo!!

The fish that looks bad/sick....
he's your canary
the rest of the fish will follow quickly

you have set yourself up a nightmare.....
to solve it
1) feed very lightly
2) partial water change every 1 0r 2 days (remove prob 50% of water)
3) don't clean filter until flow slows (and then only squeeze out in a
bucket of aquarium water)

I am glad I am not in your shoes anyway!
Research 'new tank syndrome'
and prepare for ammonia/nitrite hell

In 3 weeks time
if all goes well
you'll be able to change to 1/3 partial water changes every week
but until that ammonia/nitrite drops......
gotta dilute to save ya fishys!
gasping and sitting on bottem are bad bad signs!

"EA" wrote in message

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Hello,

We've just purchased 8 goldfish and put them in a 50 Litre tank. The
tank had been filled for about 2 months, and there are plants in there
too. We have a filter that ran for about an hour before the fish were
put in the tank.

We also used "water ager tap water conditioner" before we put the fish
in.

7 of the 8 fish seem very happy - they swim around a lot and rush to
the the top when we feed them. The 8th seems to sleep a lot and move
quite slowly - although he does move occasionally. He likes to suck on
rocks and then spit them out as well.

I am worried that he is sick - we've only had him a few days but I am
still very worried.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

EA