Hi,
I have having a few issues with my tank and I am looking for advice…
A bit of background first:
I got my first tropical tank about a year ago (a Fluval Roma 90) and went through a full fish less cycle then stocked with approximately the following:
- 10 male guppies
- 3 endler guppies
- 6 galaxy raspbora
- 3 honey gourami
- 6 Amano shrimp
From stocking to now I have been doing weekly water changes and have never noticed anything off with any of the levels when testing..
I had a few fish die in the first couple of weeks but then all seemed ok for a month or so until I lost all the galaxies over the period of a few weeks. Each one slowly started to look bent and eventually died. I had been testing all the water throughout and never had any issues and chatted with a few people who suggested that they may have been a dodgy batch of fish and to not worry.
Over the next 6 months or so I slowly lost all of the guppies except 1 (and I do mean lost, I only ever found the remains of 1 or 2).
I restocked at somepoint to get to the following level about a month ago:
- 4 guppies (2 original)
- 1 endler guppy
- 3 honey gourami (2 original 1 replacement)
- 5/6 Amano shrimp (can’t tell if they are all there but there is at least 5)
- 3 peppery corys
- 3 glowlight danios
- 5 oto’s
Since over the last dew weeks I have now lost some more (again lost as it I have never found bodies), I am down to2 guppies, 2 corys and2 glowlights (but have issue with 1, explained below) and 4 otos.
All of my water is still fine according to the testing kits, so I am unsure why I keep losing fish. What I don’t know however if this is just part and parcel of the game (that some die and you need to replace), or if I have something wrong in the tank.
I realise my community isn’t very balanced at the moment and ideally I should get some more glowlights and corys, but I am hesitant to add more without knowing why the old are dieing.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Regarding the glowlight danios, I searched the whole tank last night and I was unable to see one of them, but finally spotted him this morning. He does not look well to me though and appears to be being picked on by the other much larger one. I have attached a video of this (sorry about the focus jumping in and out).
Thanks for reading all of this and any input you can give
Picture of tank
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/uolPT-y7Jf4Mark