kardabell

matt6765

What are your ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate readings? What kind of fish are dieing? Do you think it is a illness? If so what type?

kardabell

hi. i have a 55 gal freshwater tank.. set up in jan. i have the strips that test for nitrates, nitrites, hardness, alkalinity and pH. strip says all is ok.. i checked for ammonia it is ok. temp is 74-76. today 2 died.. 1 neon and 1 zebra.. in the tank are neons, zebras, guppies, mollys and 2 rainbow sharks.

harpua2002

Test strips are inaccurate and not worth the money. The API FW Master kit is very popular around here, and it's also the one I use, but any liquid reagent test kit is better than strips.

How frequently do you do water changes, and can you describe your maintenance routine? Have you added any fish recently that could have brought in disease?

matt6765

The water is a little cold.... but I dont think that would matter. A API master test kit would be more accurit. What products do you use in your tank?

Toxic

Need to do an accurate test of the water parameters. If they test OK, you may have some sort of contamination, like is there a lid on it? rinse your hands extremely well before touching there water, don't want any kind of soap in there. Do you have good surface movement from your filter or air stones ?

ABCDemily

Ypu really need to keep an eye on the two rainbow sharks, they are very terratorial and will most likely end up fighting to the death, they may be picking on the other fish, or be causing an awful lot of stress to the others, this may possibly be the cause.