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Originally Posted by TivaBella
My boss was given a betta fish is a supposedly self sustaining environment. It has been just over a week and the fish is close to dying. He is hardly moving and very pale. I know nothing about this so am hoping someone can give me some advice. All I know for sure is it is a large vase with rocks on the bottom and a large plant with the roots hanging into the water. He was given some food to feed the fish once a week. The water did get very dirty so we changed it, but there seems to be no improvement.
Does anyone know anything about this kind of stuff? Any advice?
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when you change the water, only change it once a week with only 20% plus when you do the water change let the water stand for awhile before addding it to the tank or the bowl for that matter
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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
i was pet-sitting a goldfish once that was in a small filtered tank. The owners left the filter off. The owners let the algae grow. They fed the fish "when they remembered to". they really just had me there to watch their dog.
I put their goldfish in a clean tupperware and scrubbed out its tank. with no chemicals. i treated its water with the proper stuff that i use on my reliable tank at home. i put the goldie in the shiney little mini-tank and turned on the filter. I then went to bed.
in the morning, it was dead.
i guess it liked the filth?
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when doing tank maintenance you're not suppose to change everything like 80% water change........cleaning the filter, sand or gravel. you are only suppose to do them one at a time giving a week before doing the other because when you do change everything at once it kills the beneficial bacteria that was on the aquarium. also don't put too much chemicals.