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smokinx2 Small Fry Posts: 3 Kudos: 1 Votes: 0 Registered: 04-Jul-2004	i have had 2 fish die .at first i noticed they were all the time hovering at the top of the water then it was like they kind of lost their balance from there it just got worse till they died now i have another fish hovering at the top of the water can someone please tell me what is wrong.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:35
garyroland ---Prime Fish--- Posts: 7878 Kudos: 4010 Votes: 103 Registered: 31-Dec-2001	Without water test results it's not easy... High ammonia content will drive the fish to the top and so will a lack of dissolved oxygen in the water. Small tanks, 10 gallons for instance, usually, but not always, suffer from ammonia buildups. --garyroland.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:35
jake Fish Addict Posts: 594 Kudos: 875 Votes: 2 Registered: 21-Mar-2004	In the meantime ,while you are getting the water tests done to post here, make sure you have plenty of surface agitation or an airstone running. If you don't have an air pump, etc, you can lower the level of water in the tank a little bit, enough for your filter outflow to splash a bit.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:35
smokinx2 Small Fry Posts: 3 Kudos: 1 Votes: 0 Registered: 04-Jul-2004	it must be the ammonia bacause i always put air rocks in my tanks the one im having problems with has an air disk in it and the water level is below the water that is coming out of the filter.now all i have to do is find a cheap test kit.i have something to check basically everything but that thank you for the advice.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:35


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