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What am I doing wrong?
My problem is this
I had been keeping guppies in my turtle's tank for her to eat and had gotten interested in keeping some fish in a smaller tank that I had.
The guppies I had been keeping in the turtle's tank flourished amazingly well, reproducing and getting their numbers up into the twenty's from just three fish. All this while a turtle was picking off a few at her leisure every few days.
Their numbers eventually dwindled from the turtle eating them, so after Chirstmas I started putting a tank together. Now I don't like guppies all that much, which is why I fed them to my turtle, so when I was starting up the new tank I went looking for some fish I would like.
I discovered fancy guppies, which I like a deal more than the feeder fish. I also looked up information on Black Mollies. From what I read about them, they could survive fine in freshwater. So I got the tank up and running, let it sit for three days and put my guppies and mollies in the tank. The water got cloudy and two mollies died. Thinking it over, I tried to figure out what was different from this tank to my turtle tank that fish seem to flourish in. I switched out the filter bags from one to the other, thinking maybe it had to do with the bacteria built up in the filter. This seemed to work well, as no more fish died. I decided to go and get a few more fish, so I went from two mollies to four and from two guppies to three.
Everything seems fine for a several days until I wake up to find a guppy dead as well as the two new mollies. One mollie had been acting weird since I got it from the pet store, like it didn't know how to use it's tail unless another fish was chasing it. Other than that, there was no sign that the fish were doing badly at all, no lethergy, active eating, interacting with the other fish how they always do.
The original two mollies are swimming strong as they have since I started the tank and the two remaining guppies seem fine, but so did the other fish before they croaked.
What is going on? This is my first tank so I tried to pick hardy fish that were decently cheap, but I do really want them to live and I seem to be having no luck at all and I'm very afraid that the fish that are still living are going to just keel over dead like the last fish.
Any advice?
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