I bought 6 fish for my new tank 3 are dead advice appreciated

You could have taken them out and resusitated them but you didn't so it's your fault. When you see a fish on they belly you take him out and do mild chest compression and you use your own mouth to blow air into his mouth while you massaging him. That will save they lives.

Explain more detail of how and when they died. It could be too many things without more details.

6 fish for a new 10-gallon tank is far too many. So, yeah, surprised 3 survived. That's about correct.

If it's a new tank you need to go to the store where you purchased it, and get a piece of their filter and put it in yours.

It takes several weeks before the safe good bacteria has built up in the tank.

So, yeah, 3 fish will work, if the tank has cycled.

He failed to give his fish a resusitation to help them.

That MAY BE fish slaughter but it's not fish murder.

I think your on the wrong thread.

new tanks should be seasoned for at least a month. the nitrites/nitrates need to build up. If there is no active biology in the water, the fish wont live.

However, betas seem to do just fine.

Water needs time to cycle. New tank will have nitrate cycles where the water essentially becomes toxic.

In the future, if you set up a fish tank, let it run for a few weeks before adding fish.

But what you can do now to try to stabilize the tank and keep the remaining fish alive is do partial water changes frequently.

Take out small amounts and add fresh water with some stress coat (let the new water sit for a few minutes with the stress coat in it before putting in) and a very small amount, like few drops of SAFE START PLUS.

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Follow directions and do not put too much, this will help your tank cycle faster and better and possibly save your fish.

Otherwise, keeping a fish tank is a learning experience, we all make mistakes along the way, especially early on. Don't feel too bad, it happens.

You were smart to ask for advice, there are tons of videos and articles you can research that can help improve your aquarium health and fish knowledge and help with many problems you might encounter along the way.

Good luck!

Last Edited by Pistis Sophia of the 13th Aeon on 04/21/2021 07:34 PM

When I was a kid, I got two gold fish, and after we got them in the bowl, I decided they must be cold, so I added hot tap water to the bowl. They were dead in minutes. Had to flush em down the toilet. That was my last pet.

So I am not a good resource on this issue.

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Last Edited by Pistis Sophia of the 13th Aeon on 04/21/2021 07:32 PM

Safe start plus and a good dose of stress coat. It is probably not properly dechlorinated. You can use more than the bottle says.

Check ph.

Is the water getting oxygenated?

over feeding and over crowding are the 2 main enemies of healthy live aquarium fish

tropical fish taken out of their natural environment and placed in a small artificial tank are fragile - most do not live long in nature let alone under unnatural conditions

learn all you can about them - enjoy being the master of your miniature water universe

then flush the dead ones and start over with some new recruits

add water next time...

were they neon tetras?

a cup of bleach for ever gallon of water

FFS thought everyone knew this

When fish are dying in a new tank I get aggressive and err on the side of too much stress coat / conditioner. I also agree with the posters above but personally I don't take it slow with the adjustment if it's a new tank/environment and this is happening because they're already f'd up and in shock.

Lost my favorite little betta to incomplete dechlorination ;(

It takes up to 8 weeks to cycle a new fiah tank
Beneficial bacteria need to grow priot to adding fish
Fish poop and pee alot
The filter doesn't clean that. Bacteria dors
Pee and poo make ammonia
Ammonia kills fish
Bacteria eat ammonia so it doesn't harm fish
Research cycling a fish tank
Fill tank with water
Add ammonia to tank
Buy an api master test kit and continue to test water until you see it cycled.

You did put water in , Right ?

Fish lives matter.

Time to set Altuna, Cape Cod, and Basston ablaze.

How much bromine did you add?

Lemon, pepper and a small amount of kosher salt. Keep it simple.

Temperature shock

Float baggies in tank first.

20 minutes.

The ones that survived are the best ones anyways

Congratulations

Could be a number of things. A 10 gal tank is a small, unforgiving environment. If something goes wrong its effects are magnified. It's good to add 1 or 2 fish to start to begin the bacterial decontamination process and add more fish in a few weeks depending on what kind of filter is used. Other factors are water temp and contamination issues with new equipment. A good water quality testing kit would help a lott too. Good luck.

Thanks.

That got me laughing pretty good I'll give that one to you.

its clearly Covid-19

That is the advice I was looking for thanks.

Thanks you as well. I didn't know half that stuff.