Re: Help - Fish are dying ...

"Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> if you stay in this hobby very long you will learn an important word about
> buying new fish, "quarantine". It is important to have another small tank
> that you can set up to quarantine your fish, in particular those that you
> buy from large stores that use a central filtration system. If there is a
> disease outbreak in one of their tanks it travels through all of their
> tanks. Alternately you need to find a trusted source for purchasing fish
> otherwise you will continue to suffer losses. The other issue is the
> stocking level of a 10g tank. Every time you add fish your tank will go
> through a mini cycling process. Initially it takes at least a month for a
> tank to cycle and that is likely what caused the death of your first fish,
> ammonia and or nitrites. Adding more fish to a small tank that may be peak
> stock levels already will cause an ammonia spike that can quickly kill.
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> Rick


 Yeah, I figure I will wind up using my 10G as a quarantine tank
eventually. That means I am sticking to this hobby for a while, to the
dismay of my wife  :-)
I found a decent lfs, helped me out the first time I lost my fish. I
should have gotten the mollies from them, but it was an impulse buy at
Petco - another beginner thingy, I guess ...
I am now left with a 1 swordtail, 1 cory, and 1 white cloud. I think I
will stay away from mollies because of their "brackishness" but will
get few more white clouds to make up a school. Ofcourse,  I will wait
another week or two before restocking. Will the lone white cloud
survive that long without a school?

Raj