HELP: One of my Leopard Danios is dying!

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It could be any number of things. My first observation is that your
tank is not cycled. If it was cycled your ammonia would be 0, your
nitrite would be 0 and you would show some nitrates. When you have
alkaline water such as yours (pH of 8.0) the toxicity of ammonia
increases drastically. Even .25 ppm becomes dangerous. We need more
information to know what's actually causing his problem though.

Thing is I think the ammonia spike's from adding 2 danios (including the one
that has died now) and 3 ghost shrimp last week.

What other fish do you keep with him? What kinds and how many?
There are now 3 danios in there, as well as three ghost shrimp, 2 apple
snails, 6 neon tetra and a water wisteria.

What is the gh and kh of your water?

no idea, never tested it.

Have you had any pH fluctuations?

Nope, from the tap its 7.4, but in both my aquaria, it is 8.0

What are the physical symptoms? Not eating? Lethargic? scrapes, nips or
parasites on his body?

No parasites or anything physically obvious on him, no nips or fin rot etc,
just lethargy and lying on the bottom, when he was trying to swim he was
very tilted to one side.

How long have you had him?

A week

What has he been eating?

Normal flake food

What is the water temperature?

a steady 25 to 26 celcius, though there was a spike yesterday where it went
to 28/29 or 83 farenheit for those using that. This was due to sunlight
hitting the tank. (we usually draw the curtains in the afternoon)

Have you had any mechanical problems? Heater, filter, air stone?

None

What water conditioners are you using? Are you adding anything else to
the water? Medication?

I use Stress coat for getting rid of chlorines / chloramin when doing water
changes, no medications in use etc.

Anything else you can think of that may be helpful?

the only out of the ordinary event was the temperature spike yesterday :-(
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