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  1. I see! The surviving fish haven't shown such signs, are some fish more impervious to ammonia spikes than others?
  2. So I am unsure/curious about this. My grandma set up a new tank about three months ago for her angelfish and recently began trying to add more. They all came from the same pet store and of the four total she bought only one survived. Of the first two, one had notable deformities and died within a few days because it couldn't swim properly and kept ramming into the tank walls. While the last two she purchased a few days ago, along with two silver dollars for the same tank and a goldfish for her goldfish tank. The silver dollars and the goldfish are doing perfectly well, but the two angelfish died the next day. She tried to get a refund for the angelfish and the pet store had her bring in some tank water to be tested. According to them, there's 0ppm of ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate in her tank. The employee said the fish died because her tank is too clean and that there's no nitrogen cycle going on. The tank water does get cloudy very quickly, but I'm pretty sure that's because my grandma has a tendency to overfeed. That being said, I'm pretty new to the hobby so I don't know much about the nitrogen cycle beyond the basics. My grandma is very discouraged and might stop keeping angelfish. The thing is, she's been successful in keeping angelfish in the past. I've never heard of tank water being too clean and want to know if that was the pet store talking bs or if there is a potential legitimate issue that could harm the (seemingly healthy) fish still in the tank. It would be terrible if more fish died, she's already extremely stressed from other non fish related things and took these deaths pretty hard.
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