Hello fish community I am a keeper of 7 fish and 4 of them have now died.
What has happened is I recently got a new tank to upgrade from my older smaller one.
The new tank upgrade was a second hand Jewel tank thats 80l and it started to leak after about a week of me having it.
So I bought the "BETTA*Clear Aquarium silicone for sealing and repairs" to reseal the tank.
After using this silicone, sealing the tank correctly and leaving it to cure for longer than recommended time I decided to add my fish back into the aquarium.
After I had done this my fish all started to decline in health. They stopped eating, couldn't breathe in the water and most of them have died and I'm absolutely devastated.
I wiped down the aquarium before reintroducing my fish into the tank after sealing it so I cant understand why this is happening especially because I used a fish safe sillicone and followed all correct directions and yet now 4 of my fish have passed away.
Does anyone know the issue? I have been doing water changes since Ive noticed the issue and that has improved the health of a few of my fish but unfortunately it was too late for some of them.
Please please please help me or tell me what I could do to stop this besides water changes as im already doing that. Also to note before I noticed the tank started leaking my fish were living perfectly happily in the tank and only after I sealed it did this start happening.
What I did exactly was move my fish out of the tank and put them in a holding tank while the new one was getting repaired.
Then I dried and repaired the new tank and left it to cure for longer than recommended time. My father also did all the sealing with the sillicone as hes experienced for many years in using it.
After it dried I wiped the tank down with a wet cloth, filled the tank back up and reintroduced my fish and thats when the issue started to happen.
Please help me.
What has happened is I recently got a new tank to upgrade from my older smaller one.
The new tank upgrade was a second hand Jewel tank thats 80l and it started to leak after about a week of me having it.
So I bought the "BETTA*Clear Aquarium silicone for sealing and repairs" to reseal the tank.
After using this silicone, sealing the tank correctly and leaving it to cure for longer than recommended time I decided to add my fish back into the aquarium.
After I had done this my fish all started to decline in health. They stopped eating, couldn't breathe in the water and most of them have died and I'm absolutely devastated.
I wiped down the aquarium before reintroducing my fish into the tank after sealing it so I cant understand why this is happening especially because I used a fish safe sillicone and followed all correct directions and yet now 4 of my fish have passed away.
Does anyone know the issue? I have been doing water changes since Ive noticed the issue and that has improved the health of a few of my fish but unfortunately it was too late for some of them.
Please please please help me or tell me what I could do to stop this besides water changes as im already doing that. Also to note before I noticed the tank started leaking my fish were living perfectly happily in the tank and only after I sealed it did this start happening.
What I did exactly was move my fish out of the tank and put them in a holding tank while the new one was getting repaired.
Then I dried and repaired the new tank and left it to cure for longer than recommended time. My father also did all the sealing with the sillicone as hes experienced for many years in using it.
After it dried I wiped the tank down with a wet cloth, filled the tank back up and reintroduced my fish and thats when the issue started to happen.
Please help me.