Please tell me what's wrong with my Fish Tank????ASAP!?

Question

I've lost yet another fish..I don't know what's wrong...The water is at 80 deg. I have (had) 2 bettas and 2 tetras and 1 zebra glow fish, and I came home and found my female betta violet floating at the top of the tank, very discolored she was purple but now she's like got white spots??? Do you know what's wrong..is there something wrong with my tank the water anything??????? I'm really upset..Please help me...ASAP

Answer 1

Its possible that it has a disease or your nitrate level or something good be to high or low. I suggest you take a sample of the water to a pet store and make sure everything is ok with the water and tell them about whats going on. They should be able to help you.

Answer 2

The first thing I would do is to remove any dead fish from the tank. Shut off the Temp due to the fact that higher temps if bacteria related will spread at a faster rate and cause even more stress to the fish. Then I would do a 10% water change with a purchased bottled water from the store, they come in 1 to 2 gallon jugs. Now go to the pet store and buy some medication for ick and have them test your PH balance so be sure to bring a sample water with you. Once you have the ick medication and the proper PH to balance your tank. Go home and adjust the PH if needed and remove all carbon from the filtration system. Removing the carbon is so to let the medication remain in the water longer in order to cure the fish. Carbon will remove the medication. Hopefully after awhile the fish will become healthy and you can then do your normal water changes and add the carbon back into the tank with fresh cotton or sponge which ever your filter uses. NOTE: during this process I would feed once a day and only enough for the fish to eat up within 5 minutes. You do not want to pollute the water during the medication without carbon to remove toxins. I hope your fish get well and you can then at some point replace violet with a new Betta.

Answer 3

Will first off, do you have male bettas or all females? If you have any male bettas you CAN NOT put females in with them unless you are breeding them and after that you have to take the female out. White spots are usually caused from ick but, since your fish was dead, it could have been bite marks. If it is ick your other fish will most likely have the same white spots. Check them and if you see that they do have white spots, go to a pet store and buy some medication for ick. You have to remove your carbon from the filter when using medicine. If that is not it, take a sample of your water to a pet store and get it tested.

Answer 4

white spots are usually ick. most petstores carry easy cures for this (check the other fish around their fins... if you see whitespots, there is your problem) and its very common. If you want to keep an aquarium on a regular basis, you really should invest in a water test kit. you can check the salinity, chlorine, hardness, etc. of the water, and you can get all sorts supplements to fix this.

the smaller the aquarium, the quicker the water can go bad. big aquariums will keep their own natural stability. Adding a small amount of natural salt to the water, depending on size of aquarium, but small like a pinch or a half teaspoon. even in freshwater, helps take the hardness down, also live plants help with nitrates and oxygen....

lastly stress kills fish all the time, make sure they have places to hide and are not picking on one fish too much. and also, fish die. sometimes, for no apparent reason...

Answer 5

1. 80 degrees is a little hot. Mid 70s would be better.

2. Bettas and tetras often won't get along. The tetras may go after the Betta.

Answer 6

Stephie is totally on target.
My question is why are you keeping the temp at 80? Lower your heater to keep it closer to 75 or so.

Also, what size tank are you running? If you insist on keeping male and female bettas together, there needs to be hiding places and plants, and a lot of space.
The white spots are most likely from attacks, not disease.

Get the "dead" fish out of the tank.

Answer 7

It seems such as you recognize what's incorrect with your fish. you will possibly desire to no longer anticipate a Walmart worker to tell you. look ahead to this destructive guy to kick the bucket and then initiate over by heavily examining the thank you to cycle a tank without fish. as quickly as you have executed this, you may start thinking approximately alternative fish.

Answer 8

what are your water parameters? is your tank cycled? If you don't have your own test kit get your water tested! And the spots could be ich get meds for your tank how often do you change your water?

Answer 9

There is probaby something in the water that is making the fish die. I had fish and they died when I had left them in the water for a while.

Answer 10

you need an ick treatment