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Greetings from Texas.
Recently my wife bought a five gallon aquarium kit for my two daughters and she didn't do much research. Now in the interest of domestic tranquility I am attempting to learn how to keep fish alive. :dont_tap_the_glass:
My wife set up the aquarium with some colored gravel filled it with filtered tap water and put in declorinator acording to the instructions that came with the kit. We waited two days then added six little fish(way to many we know now) the fish starded dieing off that night and now I have six dead fish and water so cloudy I can barely see the plastic plants.
Should I dump it all and start over or should I try to salvage it somehow by "cycling" the tank before we try some new fish?
So far with the little bit of reading I have done seems to tell me that a smaller tank like this is actually much harder to keep than a larger one. I really don't want to have to tell my wife that she bit off more than we can chew. But I don't want to let her and the kids down and think they can't keep "a few cute fishies" Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Derick H.
Hurst TX
Recently my wife bought a five gallon aquarium kit for my two daughters and she didn't do much research. Now in the interest of domestic tranquility I am attempting to learn how to keep fish alive. :dont_tap_the_glass:
My wife set up the aquarium with some colored gravel filled it with filtered tap water and put in declorinator acording to the instructions that came with the kit. We waited two days then added six little fish(way to many we know now) the fish starded dieing off that night and now I have six dead fish and water so cloudy I can barely see the plastic plants.
Should I dump it all and start over or should I try to salvage it somehow by "cycling" the tank before we try some new fish?
So far with the little bit of reading I have done seems to tell me that a smaller tank like this is actually much harder to keep than a larger one. I really don't want to have to tell my wife that she bit off more than we can chew. But I don't want to let her and the kids down and think they can't keep "a few cute fishies" Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Derick H.
Hurst TX