why are all my fish slowly dying?
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Poor water quality Ammonia and nitrite are just two of many common problems that you might come across while caring for an aquarium and both can harm your fish. A number of things can lead to ammonia, such as fish waste, leftover food rotting at the bottom of the tank, and dead fish not being removed promptly.
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They're dead for a reason, and we can guarantee it ain't good. Once they die, toxins build up in their tiny bodies, which they'll pass to you, no matter how much you cook 'em. Inspect your catch right after you buy the bunch and again before you cook them and toss anything dead.
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The loach seems hardly well-fed as I noticed the abdomen looks sunk. I have the same experience as Wasserpest with my botias, especially yoyos. They take such fun in playing dead, will even allow pokes from other fishes, moved as if dead.
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Overfeeding is the number-one cause of high nitrate levels in aquariums. Overfed fish produce much more waste than normal, and when more food is given than they can take in, the uneaten food rots and produces even more wastes. Keeping too many fish in a tank also leads to problems with accumulated wastes.
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So fish, just like terrestrial animals, can suffer damage to their brains (and all their other tissues) if they are deprived of oxygen for too long. Like people, they can sometimes recover from such injuries, but it takes a long time.
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As we have seen, bettas can die from poor water conditions, overfeeding, cool water temperatures, and a dangerous living situation. Aside from the physical damage these issues can cause, when your fish is under constant stress, he is more likely to get sick, and more likely to die.
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Ich, or White Spot, Will Eventually Kill Fish Although the disease is the equivalent of a skin infection, ich can easily be fatal to a fish stressed by poor diet or habitat.
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The reason they are at the surface trying to breathe is due to a lack of dissolved oxygen in the water. The low levels of oxygen are mainly due to a lack of aeration or poor water quality, which can then cause the fish to stress. ... You can add pond plants, which naturally release oxygen into the water during the daytime.
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Why? Well theyre spawning! There chasing each other around the pond to beat the eggs out of the other ones! Look at all of your female fish and try and see if she is bloated, if so, make a spawning mop, theyre cheap and easy and will help in the long run.
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Ammonia. Goldfish with brown or black patches, or smudges, may have suffered ammonia burn but are healing. ... When ammonia levels fall, fish begin to recover and heal -- the discolored patches are signs of healing skin. In tanks with constantly high ammonia levels, though, the patches may never appear.
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The reason they are at the surface trying to breathe is due to a lack of dissolved oxygen in the water. The low levels of oxygen are mainly due to a lack of aeration or poor water quality, which can then cause the fish to stress. ... But you can avoid this by aerating the water and keeping the water quality crystal clear.
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Too low nutrients will hardly cause sps corals to turn brown, as it is usually a function of zooxanthellae population density increasing as a result of available nutrients that causes brown corals. ... Rather bring that and your NO3 down to undetectable levels and feed your fish and corals.
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Fish do not act dead! If they are floating upside down, have swelled up like a balloon, or even swimming erratically near the top of the water surface, it is an indication of something being wrong. It is called the impaired buoyancy that occurs because their swim bladder isn't working properly.
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Swimming Disorders If fish are swimming slowly or with clamped fins, gasping at the surface, listless, not eating, or if their gills are purplish rather than bright pink-red they are not getting enough oxygen. Check your water's pH, nitrates and ammonia levels. Do a few water changes and check your filters.
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Clowns are very social and do best with buddies. That being said I have known them to buddy up with other types of fish. I had a trio of loaches 6 years ago and also had an ich outbreak. It killed every single fish in the tank excluding one loach.
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One reason your betta might be lying at the bottom of the tank is if you don't have a filter in your tank. If you don't have a filter then there could be a build up of chemicals as well as ammonia. When ammonia builds up too much your betta could begin suffering from ammonia poisoning, which can quickly become fatal.
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10 fish are in a tank. -two fish drown. -four fish swim away. -three fish die.