Hello! My family and I are new to the fish world and we are so far having terrible luck. My 8 year old wanted fish for Christmas so we got her a brand new tank and all the accessories and on the 27th of December bought 4 glofish from Petco.
They did amazing for 2 months till one day one was swimming sideways and within 24 hours all four were dead. We waited a few weeks. Emptied and throughly rinsed everything from the tank. Filled it and treated the water, new filter etc. added a bubbler. Waited a week and took a water sample to the fish shop and the water was perfect. Waited another few days before bringing home 4 new glofish this past Sunday.
It’s not even been a week. This morning one of them is swimming sideways and struggling just like it started with the others. Our home test strips are showing water levels are fine. I called the fish shop we got them from and they weren’t very helpful at all which was frustrating. We’ve only been feeding them every other day since we are wondering if over feeding is what killed the others.
Any thoughts and advice would be very appreciated. Wondering if we need to just go a different fish route and move on from glofish.
They did amazing for 2 months till one day one was swimming sideways and within 24 hours all four were dead. We waited a few weeks. Emptied and throughly rinsed everything from the tank. Filled it and treated the water, new filter etc. added a bubbler. Waited a week and took a water sample to the fish shop and the water was perfect. Waited another few days before bringing home 4 new glofish this past Sunday.
It’s not even been a week. This morning one of them is swimming sideways and struggling just like it started with the others. Our home test strips are showing water levels are fine. I called the fish shop we got them from and they weren’t very helpful at all which was frustrating. We’ve only been feeding them every other day since we are wondering if over feeding is what killed the others.
Any thoughts and advice would be very appreciated. Wondering if we need to just go a different fish route and move on from glofish.