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Help quick! please

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lentilbake · 08/12/2011 15:52

Bought some new fish today, my son obviously got over excited as I nipped upstairs for a wee and returned to find he had put loads of the new food into the tank (micropellets for neon tetras) plus some of the old flakes (dont know how much of the flakes he put in as he just told me that (I couldn't see any) but loads of the pellets are floating on the surface still

What do I pleas?

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hohohEauRouge · 08/12/2011 15:57

Scoop them out with a net or suck them out with your syphon tube, they will cause an ammonia spike otherwise. Was the tank already set up with fish? Did you quarantine the new fish?

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lentilbake · 08/12/2011 17:03

It was set up with platys,and neon tetras. Just bought some corydoras, at least being bottom feeders they ate some of the stuff that had sunk. Looking at the packet I thught maybe it wasn't as bad as i initially thought as packet still pretty full but when I did the water change a load more bits started floating round. Water looks very cloudy again now :(

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hohohEauRouge · 08/12/2011 19:23

I'd do another water change then. Do you have a water test kit? How big is the tank?

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lentilbake · 08/12/2011 20:15

did do second water change, have called shop i got the tank and fish from, they said clean gravel, and do another water change first thing, and they will test water - they do unlimited free water tests, they said they can give me ammonia remover if necessary tomo, its about 60 litres, bit upset actually as someone recommened this tank _ i had said i didn't have room for much bigger but realise they ahev deeper tanks that are same length and width so could ahve had one of those:( will upgrade once my new carpet is done

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lentilbake · 12/12/2011 19:42

I now have a dead guppy :( waiting for others to die DD2 very upset :(

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hohohEauRouge · 12/12/2011 21:06

Oh no :( What were the last water test results?

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lentilbake · 12/12/2011 21:13

they didnt tell me much, normally the staff are really helpful, the shop has won sevral awards, however this one man wasnt so good and didnt tell me the levels but said startin to get some ammonia, have some phosphates and nitrites just starting to turn

said to carry on with water changes (10-15%) every day and gravel clean, no food

didnt even tell me how much prime to add to water, i said how much will i need for this amount water, he said its all written on the back, i said i couldnt do the maths as i'm really useless he said its very simple tells you on the back!

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lentilbake · 12/12/2011 21:13

just found nother dead fish too :(

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hohohEauRouge · 12/12/2011 21:18

Hmm, that's quite sudden, I wonder if something else is going on, maybe a pH crash Confused I would do another water change ASAP.

mrspnut · 12/12/2011 21:19

I'd be doing a 50% water change every day, siphoning the gravel as much as possible to remove the excess food.

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