a few days ago, all my fish had begun dying. I found that my nitrates were sky rocketing (500 ppm) and I was so disappointed I didn’t catch it earlier. I was panicking trying to save what I had left, so I did a total water change because of how crazy the nitrates were. Just this morning my last fish had died from the stress of the total change
I thought it was doing better, so I had bought a very inexpensive fish from petco yesterday. I bought a small sailfin tang, that was 25% off because it “had been there too long and needed to go to a forever home”, which seemed a bit skeptical to me. I told the worker I was worried something would happen. I got him down to 50% off and also got confirmation that if something went wrong with the fish I could return it full refund.
This morning, the new fish was dying and the fish I thought was doing okay from the crash was dead I understand that my old fish (a clownfish) wasn’t going to last long because it had been stressing out, but the new sailfin tang was on the ground laying down on one side, and an hour later had passed away.
All my levels are normal, Nitrates 20ppm, nitrites 0-0.5ppm, alkalinity 300ppm, pH 7.4-7.8, and amonia 0.25ppm.
What’s wrong? Why is this happening to my new fish?
I thought it was doing better, so I had bought a very inexpensive fish from petco yesterday. I bought a small sailfin tang, that was 25% off because it “had been there too long and needed to go to a forever home”, which seemed a bit skeptical to me. I told the worker I was worried something would happen. I got him down to 50% off and also got confirmation that if something went wrong with the fish I could return it full refund.
This morning, the new fish was dying and the fish I thought was doing okay from the crash was dead I understand that my old fish (a clownfish) wasn’t going to last long because it had been stressing out, but the new sailfin tang was on the ground laying down on one side, and an hour later had passed away.
All my levels are normal, Nitrates 20ppm, nitrites 0-0.5ppm, alkalinity 300ppm, pH 7.4-7.8, and amonia 0.25ppm.
What’s wrong? Why is this happening to my new fish?