Kflory

About 15 minutes away. 20 gallons, 5 fish

We recently bought a new house (yay!!) how do I move my friends without completely tanking their cycle and starting over??

Recommendations on where to get decor and hiding places that are more natural. When we first set up we did all plastic plants and castles and sunken ships. I want to create something better and more natural. I looked at petsmart and petco and don’t love anything there. Here’s a picture when we first set it up over a year ago. It’s changed some but not a lot.

No I have added or changed anything in over a month

I did a water test this evening and some of my levels are “off” or rather different then they normally are. I did a 20% water change on Saturday. I did rinse the filter media in old tank water as well. I use the API test kit: ph 8.0 (it’s usually 7-7.5) ammonia .25 nitrite 0 nitrate the color is between 0 and 5 ppm water temp is 78 degrees should the higher ph and ammonia be concerning?

The frustrating part has been trying to figure out the “something else”. 😭

I use API water conditioner to treat water before I add it to the tank. I use seachem stability afterwards @Colu

No. They eat fine. Look and act perfectly normal until all of the sudden they aren’t. @Colu

Not really. The Danios have always played and swim more near the surface but not all the way to the top. I have an aqua clear HOB. For filter media I have a sponge, some filter floss and bio rock things. I also have a small air stone. @Colu

I want to add that the fish that die aren’t bloated or puffy. They don’t look like they have a disease of any kind.

I am hoping to get some advice we are DESPERATE!!! I have a 20-gallon hex tank. We have had it a little over a year. It was doing well until about December and we started losing fish left and right and I can't figure out why. For context, we started with 5 Glo Fish Danio, 5 Glo Fish Tetra, and 2 Cory cats. At the moment I have fake plants but I am working on doing some research to start adding live plants. These are the current tank parameters and they have stayed consistent through this whole ordeal pH- 7.5 PPM Nitrates- 5.0 PPM Nitrite- 0 PPM Ammonia- 0 PPM KH-80 PPM (test strip) GH- 120 PPM (test strip) Water Temperature (76-78 F) I noticed our tank turned cloudy and a few days later turned very very green. No algae on the surfaces just green water. The day it turned green we lost our first danio. I did a small water change. It was recommended I limit the lighting. I got a timer after that so the lights stay on for 5 hours daily. The green cleared but it stayed cloudy. I asked a few people and Facebook groups and it was thought to be a bacterial bloom. I left it alone. There was no change in the water for about a month. The fish started to die weekly after this all the same way. They would start to swim erratically, then flip around and upside down, and eventually die. This all would happen within a matter of hours with no previous "signs" or "symptoms". I watched one do this in a matter of 20 minutes. Mid-Jan. we are down several fish and now the water is turning green again. I broke down and treated the water with API Algeafix and accu-clear. This finally gives me clear water....for a few days. Then we were cloudy again. So here we are end of Feb. I have 1 glo fish tetra, 1 danio, and 1 cory left. I did a water change again over the weekend due to the worst green water I have ever seen. Anytime I do a water change I use conditioned water and then dose with seachem stability. I don't change filter media, I have sponges and just rinse them in fish water. If you read this far I appreciate it. I just wanted to encompass the WHOLE story. What am I doing wrong???? The attached picture is of the tank last week and that is generally how it usually looks.