SOS!! If there are any fish experts out there I would really appriciate some help here. I had a fish for 2 years in my parents in house. Brought to my new apartment in a different county. He was grand for 3 months. Then when I went to change his water he died. I put it down to old age/cold since it can get quite cold at night. So went to pet store got 2 very pretty goldfish. Cleaned out the tank, did the adjustment thing and put them in their new home. By that night they were dead. So was quite annoyed. Went back to pet store explained the situation and they commented on the fact that we are in a high lime and nitrate area. Which actually poisons the fish. So we were advised to buy some stuff that would neutralise the water. So brought and on the guarentee that this would make the water safe we got 7 more fish. Went home cleaned the tank again. Treated the water with the conditioner and then let fish adjust etc. By that night all the fish were lying on their sides not oving but still breathing. So rushed out to get some still water. Got home emptyed tank cleaned tank filled it with the still water and treatment. Placed fish back in tank after adjustment. No improvement. 2 baby gold fish died and the rest weren’t doing great. Took the rest out the tank put in an old round sweets container with still water and treatment. Did some rresearch and discovered that by adding a tiny tiny amount of salt I mean a punch to the water it could help with nitrate poisoning. So added it and prayed. Unfortunatly a beautiful white spotted gold fish and a tiny white shimmery one died. But another tiny white shimmery survived along with those tiny tiny ones that have that streak through them. So decided the tank we had was to big for such tiny fish and cleaned a vase and put the one that survived the night in there. At this point the tiny ones had to be put in our health tank since they had been doing the same as the other fish. After an hour or two Lazerus(the sick but recovered one) started swimiming on his side and then lying on the bottom again. All the fish are now in the health bowl and all are swimming upright and have eaten. I really want to put them in their new tank but I am afraid in case they get sick.I also noticed that the decorations now have got this white encrusted stuff on them and then a wooden decoration has some green on that that wasn’t on it before.
Anyone have any tips? I know some people collet rain water and use still water but we have a 12ltr tank so we would need to collect a lot of water. I would really appriciate any tips cause I hate seeing them suffer and die.
Thanks guys xxx
