I just got a fish tank and have never had fish before. I checked the PH and it says it’s at dangerous levels. How do I fix that? The guy at the pet store said it would fix itself in about a month but nothing has happened. I’ve lost 3 fish already.
its a 10 gallon tank with 4 guppies, 4 neon tetras and 2 [VERY HORNY] ivory snails. i put a new filter cartridge and then cleaned the plants, ornaments, and gravel. i stirred up the gravel and replaced 3 gallons. i remember a year ago when i first got the tank the pet store worker said to never do a water change when you add a new filter cartridge. will my fish be okay?
He is 15 months old and has been hitting everyone, sometimes with his hand and sometimes with heavy stuff that hurts. We usually grab his hand and say "NO, THAT HURTS" but it’s just not working. It’s been going on for a while now. He also does everything we tell him NO to. Like emptying the culligan water machine, climbing on the table, throwing things at people, banging on laptops, and digging in the garbage. A week ago he went up to a stranger at the park and started throwing sand at her. Another time a couple months ago he ran into a baby in a pet store and tried to hit her in the face. A few days ago I was talking to my Grandma for 45 seconds and in that time my son had grabbed my phone off the bathroom sink and put it in the toilet. Needless to say, I’m now without a phone. From what I understand all this behavior is normal (basically) but I’ve never been around any other kids so I’m not sure. Could you tell me from experience if this is normal? How do you teach your kids to behave? It just seems to be getting worse. Thanks for all suggestions and answers!
Now I feel bad reading this. My son isn’t a monster, he is USUALLY a little angel. Smiling, snuggling, and on the move. But we have around 10 episodes like I explained every day.
He can’t talk yet, so it’s hard.
Just thought I’d add that my Mom wonders why he started hitting. He doesn’t see anyone getting hit (violently, at least). Sometimes there’s rough housing, like wrestling, and his uncle is 12 and gives playful punches to us, but not him.
There are 3 laptops in the house, 2 are kept on the table. He pulls out the chairs and climbs up onto the table. He can open them and everything. And the toilet thing my mom got on me about too. She said he could have drowned lol. No, I was getting ready for us to take a shower, I had the water running and everything. My grandma came over to drop something off so I met her in the hallway with the bathroom just feet away. He pulled a slick one. And the garbages are hard to hide. I try to keep them in the entry way put people do need to use them lol. I do remove him, but he runs right back!! You not having these problems has me worried that this might not be normal. I’m not sure who I should talk to about these problems.
lol no marie I am not a spanker or a hand swatter. So I don’t know where he picked up the hobby of hitting.
I bought brine shrimp in the pet store. They were sold as feeders. How much salt do I put in a gallon of water??
I have not bought the sea monkey set… I bought only the sea monkey so how do you take care of it.
Not using it as feeders!!!
I found that my tank is going through the nitrogen cycle and im going to start changing water.
when we change the water, does putting chemicals like the water conditioner affect the cycle?
The man in the pet store told me to put some everytime i changed water.
He did not tell me anything about the nitrogen cycle.
am i supposed to put anything in the water or just put the tap water and leave it as it is?
Would the tap water affect anything?
There is fish inside my tank.
Thank you!
I need serious help. I set up a 46 gallon aquarium at the beginning of June and can’t get it to cycle. Unfortunately, I have listened to advice from 3 different pet shops, and all 3 had different answers. I initially ran the aquarium for a week, then my local pet shop told me to add bacteria and 2 goldfish, which I did. Of course the ammonia climbed, as it should have, so next, 2 pet stores told me I had to perform frequent water changes, preferably some every day, which I did-about 2 gallons every morning, which kept the ammonia at about .5 ppm. Fish stressing from ammonia. I kept this up until a couple weeks ago. I had a Tetra Whisper filter and could not figure out how the bacteria filter would grow in that setup. The NEXT pet store told me the filter was no good, so I switched to an Aqua Pure three-stage filter which includes sponge material for the bacterial colony. They said my frequent water changes were keeping the aquarium from cycling and that I should stop it until cycling had occured. They also suggested I add Bio-zyme every day for a week, which I did per the instructions. They told me it would cycle the aquarium in a week. Nope, still no cycling occuring. Ammonia has been at 1.0 ppm for a week now and I am afraid I am going to lose both my fish. What the heck am I doing wrong?? Where should I go from here?
In response to the first answer-has the bacteria had long enough to grow, since I switched filters a week ago? Or does it exist on all surfaces, not just the filter?
Well as a last resort to dealing with my continuing ammonia problems, I have replaced 1/2 of my fish tank water with distilled water. The pet store recommended trying the distilled water. Will it really make that big of a difference?
Could it really be something in my tap water creating my ammonia problems? I’ve tested my tap water for ammonia and its very low if any at all.
After a day or so, it takes typically three 30% water changes in the same day to bring the ammonia levels back down. So theres not really any extra food or waste in there as often as I’m vacuuming it out.
The tank is 10 gallons.
After the tank had run for 3 weeks, the ammoina levels were off the charts, and water changes wouldn’t bring it back down, so I changed all the water. The new water is maybe 2 weeks old
As for fish,
2 – Mollies ~1.5" -2" long
2- Xray tetras – ~1" long
2- dwarf frogs – ~1" long
2- small algae eaters ~1" long
1- spotted cory catfish ~1" long
I’ve stopped using all ammoina preventing products, based on some advice in a previous questions, and have just been changing water as necessary to keep the ammonia levels in check.
I have still been adding water conditioner to the water I have added, including the distilled water. My water here is extremely hard, and has a bunch of minerals in it, which is the reason I went along with the distilled water being a good idea.
The orange guys, which I believe are Mollies, require salt, which I have been adding the proper amount to any water I add.
Also there shouldn’t be excess food in there, when I feed them I drop food in, anything they haven’t eaten within a minute or so I scoop back out.
I’ve tried both cycle, and Prime, niether has had any effect. But then again I’ve stopped using any chemicals other than water conditioner at the moment.
I have had a goldfish, which lives in a bowl, for about 6 weeks. When I got the goldfish, the clerk at the pet store told me to take out 25% of the water each week, and replace it with clean water that has been treated with water conditioner. I have been doing this, and the water has stayed clear.
The problem is that there is a bunch of fish poop at the bottom of the bowl. It looks really gross.
I want to change all of the water in the bowl, but I am afraid that it will hurt the fish. The clerk at the pet store told me that the fish needs the bacteria in the water and I should not change all of the water at once. What do you think? Does anyone change all of the water regulary? Does it have any negative affects on the fish?
Do Glo fish need to live in filtered water? The tank at my pet store didn’t seem to have any filtration in their glo fish tank. Do I need a heater? I plan to put the tank in my bedroom which is usually room temperature. Also, is there a minimum tank capacity that I can have? I want to buy 3, if that helps.
Thanks for your help 
