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madski
16th March 2010, 06:20 PM
Hello!

I'm new to these forums.

I bought tropical fish for the first time last week. They included 1 siamese fighter fish, 2 angelfish, 3 clown loaches and 10 cardinal tetras.

The first 5 days were fine, no dramas with anything. And then suddenly on the sixth day 3 cardinal tetras were floating, followed by one clown loach and one angelfish!!

The water went green and murky, so I syphoned and did a 20% water change.

I did another water change today and the water remains murky and green.

The fish look like they're trying to eat something on the top also.

Any ideas what i'm doing wrong? I don't anymore to go!!

wombat1100
16th March 2010, 09:24 PM
Your first and biggest problem is that the tank wasn't cycled , you will find your water perameters are spiking , the shop that sold you the set up should have told you not to add fish for at least 3 weeks, if you have a read of this. its a bit heavy but it will help you a lot
http://www.thefishtank.com.au/forums/showthread.php?t=171