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10 gallon fish tank, question about the tank?
hi, I have a 10 gallon fish tank, I have one angel, 2neon tetras, and now sadly only one orange fish (forgot the name) any way that (orange) fish died because there was alittle fungus on its head , my friend said to put in a fungus tablet in the tank so I went to petco and got fungus clear, I put the pill inane like 9 min or so later the water got light blue, just enough that made me worry...will this clear up soon or do I hav to do an annoying water cleanup of the tank?i auctully flushed the fish away with the fungus on its head because my friend said that the other fish will get it so I just did it because I didnt want my other fish to get sick,how do fish get fungus if I clean the water and have the filter running all the time
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Don't listen to your friend anymore, he obviously knows as much as you do....I'm assuming your a newbi. A 10 gallon tank is not adequate housing for Angels, they get large a require larger tanks. The "Orange" fish could have recovered, with proper treatment. The blue medicine you put into your tank was doing exactly what it was supposed to...if you would have taken the time to read thoroughly, you would have read that it would change the water color. Take the angels back to the store before you end up flushing them, and stick with the neon's. Do your research....duct tape your friends mouth, he gave you horrible advise.
Source(s): 5 years of experience in keeping fish...even the most experienced of keepers fall on hard times... - danielle ZLv 71 decade ago
Unfortunatelly yur friend was wrong. Chances are the orange fish was a goldie and the whie growth was natural. Fungus take weeks and even months to kill a fish. Chances were it was ich if anything and not a fungus. Yes some make the water blue but if you didn't pull the carbon, yu didn't apply the medication properly and the carbon pulled it out prior to treatment. Either way your friend was wrong. Clean filtered water if you have had fish isn't always clean. How long has this tank been running? You should also know or your friend, tetras and angles as well as goldies cannot all be kept together in one tank.
- ZooTycoonMasterLv 61 decade ago
Discoloration of the water is normal when adding medicine. After it clears and once all the fish are healed, add some activated carbon to your filter to absorb any medicine left.
And by the way, Angelfish grow too big for a 10 gallon tank. They grow up to 6" in length AND height, and requires 15 gallons per each Angelfish. If you place it in a smaller tank, it'll get stunted, which means its body will stop growing but its organs won't.
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