coldwater

sigh went to the lfs and picked up 12 gold mountain minnows and 1 hillstream loach. I set up a quarantine tank for them and dropped them in. They all died within a few hours. Sigh. I realized that I didn’t acclimate I was too excited-totally forgot! But all dead within a few hours?? Quarentine tank is a 10 gallon bare bottom crate with a foam filter. The lfs water is pretty warm and my tap was quite cold. I know so many possible cause but what should I do next time? Bag float? Drip? Cup of new water to old water?? Kg tropics doesn’t recommend drip others on the interweb suggest from drip to bag float to multi day drip. Sigh I’m so sad and mad at myself almost want to quite. I checked the water quality of my quarantine tank and 0 for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and chlorine. PH ~6.8. What to do??

Thanks for all the replies! So fascinating and really great information! I’ll give it another day and see where the tank is at. Thank you all so much

actually as i write i did just add a several aco root tabs and the 40G amount of easy green. maybe thats poping up my nitrates and nitrites? ill give it another couple of days and see what happens...sigh

Hi Aquarists - i tried searching but couldnt really find anything. i also looked all over the web but wanted to see what everyone here thinks. I have a new 37G tall tank that has been running for about 2.5 months now. It was fully cycled a few weeks ago, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite,10-20ppm nitrate. In that time, I have done 2 wc. The first was about 2.5 weeks ago and was 25% because my nitrates were 20-30ppm. This brought my nitrates down to 10ish. nitrates started to creep up again to 40ishppm which is why i did a ~35ish% wc. this brought nitrates down to 20ishppm. today im seeing 1ppm nitrite 0 ammonia 50ishppm nitrate. i have not gravel vac or cleaned my hob since setting up tank. im thinking its my HOB?? i need to clean it?? but its only been about 2.5month with very light population. any thoughts?? thank you!! current population: 4 amano shrimo 6 neocard shrimp 3 nerite 3 dwarf red platy plants: 8 jungle val 8 stems of pogo 1 java moss 4 stems of ludwiga rp