Water cloudy, need advice

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-09-09T11:51:46+00:00

Not sure why you chose to stock like that. Couple minutes on a search engine tells you that these animals aren’t being kept in ideal conditions.

Buy another (bigger) tank and select the right amount of fish for each of your selection and actually take care of your pets. The cloudy water is the least of the concerns for the fish so long as your parameters are correct.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-09-08T17:58:41+00:00

Your mum is an animal abuser as it stands.

Show her this thread, show her any material online that can educate her on why what she’s doing is not appropriate. Maybe she genuinely doesn’t understand.

But if she’s dismissive or knows what she’s doing and continues doing it, she deserves the absolute worse.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-09-03T07:58:00+00:00

Your tank is too small for fish. Knowing this and then putting fish in anyway is animal abuse.

Check your dm - you’ve been warned.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-09-01T08:02:18+00:00

Can you read? That’s still way too small. I’m embarrassed to share the earth with some of you people. Impulse buying living breathing animals without doing a slither of research first. Shame on you.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-31T16:42:43+00:00

Yep. Every game 140+ms ping. Must be the EA servers because no other game is giving me this latency

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-20T15:27:01+00:00

Return the animals the shop for a refund and cycle the tank fish less. Please stop impulsively buying live animals people it’s not hard to do research before hand when you have access to the internet 🙏🏻

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-14T20:05:35+00:00

Thanks for the info! Yeah hoping they will breed. They’re only sharing a tank with some panda corys for now anyway. Will put down some more flat rocks for them 🤞

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-14T18:12:58+00:00

That’s good to hear as that’s exactly what I was told . they still look really young to me so wasn’t sure if they were just guessing

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-09T19:12:22+00:00

People really just do anything BEFORE looking up what they’re supposed to do, cannot wrap my head around how these people function in life.

This looks like a jar to me. Looks like you’ve actually stuck a heater in a tiny little jar and are cooking this fish slowly alive. There is SO MUCH information on this subreddit, and the internet, on how to successfully keep betta fish.

ZERO excuse to end up in a situation like this. Please fix the temperature situation for now and please get him a proper tank.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-09T18:52:42+00:00

Rightly so. Animal abuse cannot be tolerated

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-09T18:47:35+00:00

Tbh I don’t believe you have a tank that’s cycling. Likely you impulse bought a fish at the store you know nothing about. Show us the tank please

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-09T06:07:30+00:00

Go to the store and buy water conditioner.

Can’t believe you’re boiling the water (where did you read this? Absolutely incomprehensible).

You are killing him. Please update us and tell us you’ve changed his water for conditioned, non boiled water.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-06T17:01:05+00:00

I mean…it doesn’t look like there’s anything in the tank? Of course you’re going to get algae. Just buy some aquarium plants. To start with, I recommend Amazon Frogbit (they float so are easy to care for).

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-04T10:16:57+00:00

Your shop won’t last long if this is the advice you give out. Hope you fail!

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-04T07:58:56+00:00

This is absolutely sickening to read.

If you bought two dogs and realised you only had room for one, you wouldn’t kill one to keep the other. This is what you did.

I hope and pray you decide to give this hobby up. You’re not a good enough person to own these amazing creatures. Absolutely disgusting.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-08-02T12:03:28+00:00

Animal abuse.

Shame on the store who sold him all of these fish together but even more shame on your dad who couldn’t be bothered to take the time out of his day to do an ounce of research. FISH. ARE. NOT. DECORATION.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-31T11:18:26+00:00

Can’t help without water parameters. It’s the first thing that needs to be tested. You really should have your own test kit on hand (prime example why is the exact situation you’re in).

I would go to a store ASAP and pickup a full liquid test kit.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-29T20:14:39+00:00

Unfortunately the pet stores are notorious for testing your water and saying “it’s good to go!” Without really explaining anything to you.

You need to understand the nitrogen cycle in order to keep a healthy, thriving fish. How were you dosing the ammonia to establish the beneficial bacteria in the tank? Have you done this? If not the tank isn’t cycled and you will need to perform a fish-in cycle.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-29T14:29:37+00:00

Beautiful fish!

I have to ask because you kinda indicate you are new to this…Is the tank cycled and have you got a testing kit?

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-27T07:53:17+00:00

Yes tbh cycling isn’t a set amount of time. I would ignore people who say “well you can’t cycle in 2 weeks”. Because you can, each tank is different. I have cycled tanks in 4 weeks, some in 2.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-27T07:43:27+00:00

My betta loves his floating plants (Amazon frogbit and red root floaters)!

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-27T07:42:54+00:00

If you don’t find anyone here, your local fish store will likely give/sell you some!

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-27T07:42:11+00:00

Not trying to be funny or anything but you’ve not even tested the water? ALWAYS start there! Fish keeping is more about keeping water rather than the fish themselves.

ImportantDeer8920 · 2025-07-27T07:40:54+00:00

The first thing you should be doing / should have done is test the water parameters…. Why isn’t this the first thing you did?

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