Constantly gasping for air....

I dunno why has he been doing that for past few hours. Sigh.

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Pets & Animals

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• pearlscale goldfish
• ping pong goldfish

[keffie26]

Ammonia should be 0 and nitrite should be 0 . Any trace of ammonia or nitrite in your tank means that your tank has not fully cycled yet. In my wonderful experience, Stability from seachem was the only commercial live bacteria that worked for me and my tank cycled for just a week. During this week of cycling, do not feed your fish abundantly yet. One mouthful is enough once a day. One mouthful is when your fish mouth is full of food that it can not open its mouth to another pellet or flake.

[darkcurves]

Thanks for the reply. Does it mean i can cycle the tank again with the fish in it?

[keffie26]

1. You should really check for ammonia and nitrites. Ammonia maybe the cause of the black edges on the fins (ammonia burns). Nitrites prevent O2 from entering into their gills so although your tank has good aeration/agitation, your fish seem deprived of O2. My personal diagnosis on your fish is nitrite poisoning secondary to a non-cycled tank and overfeeding. Also your fish looks exhausted. Aim for a good surface agitation with no or little flow underneath so your fish can rest.

[darkcurves]

I guess i will do a water change for the moment. According to the shop, those black edges are nothing worry about because it's natural colour. Thanks for the help!

[monstercichlidkeeper]

sure he didnt do it for long... poor fish. R.I.P

[AweSomo84]

@darkcurves yes you can , you can start a tank from scratch just make sure to do 2x 15%water change a week and not 25% a week for the first 4 weeks and don't put kore fish in than 3 a 100liters.

Take care,

Erik

p.s dont do to much water change at once the ph will suddenly change and make the fish sick

[Pop12646Okami]

Mine does that, but only cause she likes to at bubbles. :3

[brhamby96]

Might be because he is incredibly fat!

[sn4pdr4g0ns]

Nitrate is not harmless to fish. It is harmless in low amounts, which you seem to know given your last sentence. Also "cycling" is when you are still growing beneficial bacteria- "cycled" is when it is already grown.

[keffie26]

Some people do a fishless cycling method and use either a flake or dead fish or prawn to start the process. You said you cycled your tank for a week. Cycling is when initially there is an ammonia spike as high as 5ppm ( due to whatever you put in the water whether wih fish or fishless) and then remember that ammonia is food for the beneficial bacteria. They eat ammonia and turn it to nitrite.Then nitrite is also food to the other form of beneficial bacteria and they eat it and turn it to nitrate

[keffie26]

How do you get ammonia in the water? 1. Ammonia is excreted from the fish gills as part of their respiration process, also from their scales and from their poo and urine. Therefore you need fish in order to have ammonia in the tank and to kickstart the cylcing process. Can you cycle without fish? 2. Yes, as basically all we need is ammonia in the water. Ammonia is a chemical compound released in the water by decaying animals or fish, decaying plants or decaying fish food.

[keffie26]

You should have a bilogical filter in place. Biological meaning that it can hold dirt and debris from the water such as foams, gravel etc. Because it is in this media that the beneficial bacteria will hopefully grow. The bacteria needs ample O2 in order to do its job that is why they survive well in areas where there is good flow of water such as foams in filter canisters etc. Then to start the cycling process, there needs to be ammonia in the water.