Tropical Fish

[bronty]

Can anybody help me please. I am loosing my fish for no apparent reason, my water is ok and the temperature I am at a loss to know what to do. Thanks in anticipation.

[B00]

Is it a new tank?

http://www.bestfish.com/breakin.html

[bronty]

the tank is 6weeks old,

[B00]

So yes, it is- im afraid it's going through it's cycle- your fish are suffering from amonia poisoning. Nothing you can do I'm afraid other than change the water as much as possible and keeping ya fingers crossed.

[tigwig]

are you sure that there isn't one particular fish that is killing the others? This happened to my sister in law, she couldn't understand why her fish were dying even though the tank was cleaned every day and after watching the fish closely she noticed that one was a bully and really chased the other ones, banging into them. She got rid of the bully and the rest of the fish were fine and have been ever since!

[Avatar]

Sounds like you've overstocked the tank a bit too early bronty.
I presume you have a filter for the tank?
Also you ought to read up on the nitrate cycle, its basic but useful, how ammonia is converted to nitrite and then nitrate. Early on in the tanks life Ammonia will be a problem. As the filter matures it will gradually speed up in ts conversion of Ammonia to nitrites and then nitrates.
You can get little test kts to tell if you have too much ammonia, nitrite etc int he water.
Have a read through this article to give you some good guidance
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/page s/show_article.php?article_id=361

[bronty]

thanks everyone for your advice