Topic: New Tank Syndrome
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How to Avoid New Tank Syndrome
Set up your tank as you normally would. However start off with only one or two hardy fish. The suggestion is to have no more than 2 total inches of fish for every ten gallons of water Feed your fish VERY lightly. Any excess food will cause ... Read More »
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How do you get rid of Old Tank Syndrome?
Do small, frequent water changes of about 10% every 3-4 days, using a gravel washer to clean the gravel (the vacuum thing). Do this for about 2 weeks, and then do a larger water change of about 20%. It will also help to be running activated... Read More »
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What is new tank syndrome?
New tank syndrome ( cycling, the nitrification cycle ) is a process of growing a colony of beneficial bacteria to break down old fish food and fish poop. This is extremely important to a fish's survival in any tank, here's a link: http://ww... Read More »
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Symptoms of new tank syndrome in fish are Sudden Death # Cloudy Water # Unexplained Death # Smelly Water
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Just stay up to date, test the water often and try to fix it. I would also do 10-20% water changes every two weeks. Replace the filter carthridges, ect. As long as you keep current on it, it will be fine.
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start all over, keep all your fish in the holding tank and clean the tank and put clean water, rinsed (in non chlorine) filter equipment... leave the tank for at least 48 hours... but that should do. In the beginning sprinkle a pinch of fis...
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Your water change idea is good. Test the water for ammonia and nitrite buildup and do whatever water changes you need to keep the levels low. You will have some, dont try and remove it all or the tank will never cycle. It may be you have to...
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Overly vocal declarations of one's tanking abilities and penchant for threatning to quit. This sort of child-like behavior is usually found in paladin tanks, people who feel they need to make up for their class inadequacy somehow.
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Sorry .. no Cure. Most addicts just set up a fish room so they can hide most of them and then try and act normal between their regular trips to the pet shop :-)
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Plan ahead. I have a 29 Gallon in my loving room and a 150 in the basement. Both make use of multiple filters, so that if one breaks there will still be some sort of filtration. With my 29 I have a 30 gallon filter on each side of the tank....
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