new tanki syndromen help ASAP please!!!!!!!!!! =/?

Question

Ok I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS FOR YA =]
1. What is new tank syndrome?!!?!?!!?!?
2. DESCRIBE a typical break in cycle for an new aquarium
(more help on #2 please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) =/

Answer 1

New tank syndrom is when the tank isn't cycled properly and the water quality becomes unhealthy for the fish.
A typical break in the cycling process for a new aquarium is when the fishkeeper sees that their tank is a little dirty after only a week or two and decides to take the fish out and do a complete water change. By doing this, they think that they are doing a good thing when actually they are eliminating the good bacteria and completely changing the fish's home once again. To prevent new tank syndrom, do not change your water at all for the first month and add some "Stability"(a product that you can find at most aquarium stores, ie Petsmart). This will add some extra good bacteria into your tank so that your fish will be disease and death free.

Answer 2

New tank sysndrome is the period when you're just starting up the tank and it hasn't cycled completely. That was just the name for the period of cloudy water and fish deaths before bacteria and nitrogen cycling was understood (at least by hobbyists). So it's really asking about the same thing as your second question. And this doesn't happen only when the tank is "new", but whenever you use an antibiotic or clean the tank out completely.

There really isn't a "typical" cycle and every tank will be just a little different. The basics are the fish produce ammonia, then bacteria convert the ammonia to nitrite, then to nitrate. The first two are toxic to fish in relatively low amounts, but it takes about 8+ times as much of nitrate to be toxic. Number and size of fish (unless you're doing a fishless cycle), amount of ammonia present, temperature in the tank (warmer = faster bacterial reproduction), and whether or not you use gravel or old filter media to "seed" your tank with bacteria - in saltwater, live rock and live sand also add bacteria (all good ideas), use a bottled bacterial additive (can vary in effectiveness), or use an ammonia/nitrite/nitrate binding water conditioner (bad idea) all affect what happens and how long the process will take. The graph in this link shows the "ideal" cycling pattern: http://www.firsttankguide.net/cycle.php

Other versions of the explanation: http://www.fishlore.com/NitrogenCycle.htm
http://www.algone.com/new_tank_syndrome.php

Answer 3

1) New tank syndrome is when the tank isn't cycled. Without bacteria in place to process ammonia, the levels build up in the tank causing severe burns to the fish. Eventually, most fish either suffocate from gill damage or die of infections. The survivors may look fine but the burns, especially to the gills, will greatly shorten their life spans.

2) A break in cycle can only be caused by two things. A) The fishkeeper removes the bacteria by replacing or over-cleaning the filter media. B) The fishkeeper removes bacteria's food source by letting the tank sit fishless for so long that the cycle starves, or lets the filter dry out and kills the bacteria that way.

Your tank will cycle faster if you don't change the water, as the other poster said, but all the products in the world won't keep your fish from taking damage and probably dying. The responsible thing to do is to return the fish and cycle the tank by adding fish food or pure household ammonia and testing levels. If you have to keep your fish, change your water MORE often to ease their suffering.

Answer 4

New tank syndrom is when the tank isn't cycled properly and the water quality becomes unhealthy for the fish.
A typical break in the cycling process for a new aquarium is when the fishkeeper sees that their tank is a little dirty after only a week or two and decides to take the fish out and do a complete water change. By doing this, they think that they are doing a good thing when actually they are eliminating the good bacteria and completely changing the fish's home once again. To prevent new tank syndrom, do not change your water at all for the first month and add some "Stability"(a product that you can find at most aquarium stores, ie Petsmart). This will add some extra good bacteria into your tank so that your fish will be disease and death free. It pretty easy to tell if you have this when all of your fish just start dieing .

Answer 5

1. New tank syndrome is when you add to many fish to your tank before it is cycled resulting in the death of some or all of the fish.

2.When you first have the tank all set up it doesn't really have a biological filter to break down the ammonia. The bacteria that make up the biological filter have to have time to populate the tank. You start the cycle either by adding one or 2 small hardy fish or by feeding your tank a small amount of fish food daily or adding a raw table shrimp (the kind you get from the grocery store) those last 2 are referred to as a fishless cycle. From there first your ammonia level will go up and as the bacteria that break down the ammonia populate the tank the ammonia will start to lower then go down to zero. These bacteria break the ammonia down into nitrites so as your ammonia goes down your nitrites will go up. As the bacteria that break down the nitrites also populate the tank your nitrites will begin to go down and finally zero out. Those bacteria break to nitrites down into nitrates which you remove when you do water changes.

Answer 6

A new tank syndrome is where the fish get used to its old tank. And when they get to a new tank they don't know what to do

Sorry i can't help you on #2