i can't keep my fish from dying right after i buy them somebody help me out!?

Answer 1

There might be something wrong with your tank's water. You can take a sample to most pet stores and aquarium stores to be tested. If your ammonia (or other chemical) levels are high, you may be killing your fish. Whoever tests your water will be able to tell you what to do. You may need to change out 25% of you're water daily until it's cleared up, or you may just need to buy some stabilizing chemicals. Get that checked before you buy more fish though, there's no reason to waste money. If it's not that, there isn't much else it could be. Make sure that when you put new fish into your tank, you let them sit in their bag in your tank for 15 to 20 minutes before you release them. If you take them out before their water adjusts to the temperature of your tank's water they could go into shock and die.

Answer 2

You probably have high ammonia or nitrate in your water. Get a 5 in 1 test kit where you buy your fish and check the water levels. Let the tank cycle for a couple of weeks by adding some fish food to the water and not doing any water changes. Then check the ammonia and nitrate levels. Then buy only a few fish and put them in to see how they do. The easiest way to cycle a tank really is to get someones old filter pad or some old water from a fish tank that is already established. If you did this then you wouldn't have to wait you could add the fish right away. Make sure to do about a 20% water change every week for about the first 2 months. Don't take the fish out when you do a water change leave them in the take. Good Luck

Answer 3

Tap water has chlorine in it. Make sure you add a declorinator to
declorinate the water or let it sit overnight before you put fish in it..
When you get the fish home, put them in the tank without releasing them. Put the plastic bag with the water and the fish in the tank. Let them float for about 10-20 minutes so that the temperature in the bag slowly changes to the temperature of the tank water.
Guppies and goldfish do not need heat. But you should not put goldfish and guppies in the same tank. Most other fish are tropical and need to have heat.
Check with your pet shop as to heating temp.
Do not put the tank near a heater or near a window where the heater or window could influence the temperature of the water in the tank.
Do not clean your tank with soap.
Do not put any decorations in the tank that are not made for fish tanks.
Do not put any wild fish, frogs, etc. you might find in a stream, in your tank.
Rinse the gravel thoroughly with plain water.before putting it in the tank.
Buy gravel made for fish tanks.
Do not put Goldfish with tropical fish.
Guppies are nice as a starter fish and don't need heat but can live nicely in a heated tank.
Don't put aggressive fish in with passive fish. For instance, if you have a community tank with guppies, mollies, swordtails, neon tetra and put in an Oscar, the Oscar will eat the other fish in your tank. Your pet shop can tell you what goes together.

Answer 4

It must be the water. Try to change the tank's water 30% every three days for 2 weeks and after that every week. Feed as much as the fish can eat in 5 minutes and feed only twice a day.

Answer 5

some fish are going to die when you start your aquarium, don't buy alot of fish or expensive fish. Also keep in mind that gold fish are really dirty fish. Start with a few inexpensive ones, once the water gets the "good bacteria" built up your fish will stop dying and you can go ahead and buy the expensive stuff.

Answer 6

Both fresh water and marine fish need to be acclimatised to the water temperature and constitution. Do not put marine fish in fresh water and vice versa. Preparation of fish tank water, stabilisation, filtration, etc is another matter - you can get a lot of information online.

The aquarium shop would usually pump oxygen into the plastic bag when you buy the fish. This will last for a few hours and you could place the unopened bag in your tank for the temperatures to equalise, after which, you could pour out the water and the fish from the bag into its new environment.

I usually add a few drops of disinfectant (- you can get it from the aquarium shop) when introducing new fish into my tank. This helps to protect existing fish from new diseases.

Answer 7

Are you are talking about fresh water fish? If so, be sure to allow your tank water to stand at least 24 hours unoccupied, to allow any chlorine to evaporate, and the temperature to stabilize, if you are using city water. Also, when you put your fish in the tank, let them in the bag they are in for at least 1 hour. this is to allow the bag water to equalize with the tank water temperature. If the water temperature between the two is too great, you may be causing the fish to be "shocked" by the different temperatures. Remember fish are cold-blooded creatures. Check your water's Ph level as well, so it matches what the particular species will tolerate.

Answer 8

you need a chemical called stress coat it helps the fish relax when being placed from one place to another.... also test your water and make sure it is the right balance. these kits can be expensive but a little one with the basics isn't. you also have to make sure the waters temp isn't too high or to low. most fresh water fish like the temp around 74 degrees. u could be getting bad fish too if its from the same place.

Answer 9

Test the ph level of your water go to a pet shop they can help. There is an old saying that when a fish dies, it has taken on an evil that was intended for the owner

Answer 10

if dies in the bag u should put the bag in a cup and put it in a cup holder if it dies in ur tank u need to make sure that the waters ph level is right for that fish feed it or it could be the store and how the store kept it