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start doing large water changes. add a bit of salt like 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons.
keep your nitrates at or under 20 ppm. if you got gravel it is probably silted up
pretty bad and it is time to move the fish out to bucket with airstone (good for
couple hours), clean the gravel gently in treated water (dont want to kill any
biobugs) and replace.
see removing gravel here http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/care/care.htm
but put gravel back instead.
http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/...htm#TUB_TO_TUB
your problem is water quality, so when you moved the fish out you were putting the
fish into clean water.
Ingrid

Do I add the salt in the buckets for water change or into the tank or
what? Won't the salt affect the plants in any way? So for 70 litres,
how much salt do I add? Yes, I've got gravel. By saying treated
water,u mean dechlorinated water rite? OK.
john..




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