Please HELP!!! ALL FISHIES ARE DYING!

[DaddysLilGurl]

So let me give you a bit of background. I'm 15 and i live in SoCal and i recently fell in love <33!! with fishies! The only fishies that i have ever keept before were gold fish! But now i want prettier fish so i can feel like the ocean is in my room! My daddy has bought me a pretty saltwater fishtank form the pet store called a bio cube or sumthing like that. i got the biggest one because i want a lot of fishies. It has this weird light thingy on an arm over it. I set the fish tank up with my daddys help. I read somewhere on here that you need lots and lots of sand and rocks for a filter. i bought this pink and blue sand ( i wanted somthing prertty) and some colorful rocks and some white ones, anyways it looks really pretty!! After we set up the rocks we put in the salt. I didint know how much to put. i put in however much it said on the salt bag for every gallon. my dad told me it is 30 gallons. The girl at petco told me that i did not have to have a heater thingy because my room will keep the fishtank warm. I figured she was right because my goldfish didint have a heater and it did fine! After we filled the tank up with water we bought cute fishies!! My daddy said i can buy any fishies i wanted <3!!!1 i bought 2 blue dories, 3 nemos, the zack shrimp that cleans everything, a pink tentacly nemo home, a butter fly fishie!, and 2 yellow fishies that looks like a school buss. I didint want any snails because they look icky! when i woke up today morning ( three days after i bought my fishes) a dory, a shrimp, and a yellow fishie are dead, and the other dory has white dots on her. Whats happening with my fishes!!! help me please!!! (

[2Addicted]

Wow your tank needs to cycle before you add anything. You need to get the fish to someone who can care for them properly. It sounds like your fish have ich. Blue hippo tangs or "Dory" need a tank that is at least 125 gallons your tank is only thirty gallons and you have two in there?!?!? The clownfish will not live in groups of three. The anemone "nemo's home" will not live in that tank for long there are so many reasons why.... they need very established tanks they need very intense lighting and they will outgrow your tank but it will not live long enough to grow at all. You do need a heater for your tank. You need to do a ton of reading.

[DaddysLilGurl]

but the girl that works at petco told me that i can have up to 20 fish?? is she wrong? and what is a cycle?

[2Addicted]

lol yes she is wrong!!! petco employees will tell you whatever they have to, to get you to buy stuff. use the search for what is a cycle. You shouldnt have any fish in there for at leat a few weeks.

[rxonco]

I call B.S.

[DaddysLilGurl]

who is B.S? Is he a fishie expert?

[rayn]

Originally Posted by rxonco

I call B.S.

I gotta agree

[Absentmind8868]

either this is bs or we hav a bubble headed bleached haired beach blonde!

[chimmike]

Originally Posted by DaddysLilGurl

who is B.S? Is he a fishie expert?

+1 on B.S.

troll-a-riffic.

[DaddysLilGurl]

A torll? are u guys like in 1st grade? i need help plesase!! seriously my fish are all dying and i need to do somthing!!

[GhostCon1]

lol Mike.

Zack? The name of the shrimp was Jacque.

Also, I think the Bio-Cube with the "wierd arm light thing" is an HQI MH which is enough for the nem. (I think they have 250w standard?)

There are so many things wrong in the op's post that I need three hands to count them all.

EDIT: Can you post a picture of your tank?

[DaddysLilGurl]

at least one guy is kind enough to help!

[DaddysLilGurl]

the shrimp was french and his american name was Zack! and what is an hqi? is it good?

[2Addicted]

Originally Posted by GhostCon1

I think the Bio-Cube with the "wierd arm light thing" is an HQI MH which is enough for the nem. ?

Lol sorry i dont speak "wierd arm light thing"


I agree we need a picture if you post one then i would be happy to help.

[chimmike]

+1. Something's 'fishy' here. you wanted the 'biggest' tank, but don't know how big it is? Is your dad helping you with this? Methinks after dumping that kind of money into a tank and fish, daddy would be interested in maintaining his investment.......

[DaddysLilGurl]

my camera isint charged so it will take me a while to post them! and how do i post them on here anyways? and i would appreciate any help i can get with my fishes while i charge my camera!

[rxonco]

Originally Posted by DaddysLilGurl

my camera isint charged...

Didn't see that one coming. Still say it's B.S. Nobody is this dense.

[2Addicted]

Originally Posted by DaddysLilGurl

my camera isint charged so it will take me a while to post them! and how do i post them on here anyways? and i would appreciate any help i can get with my fishes while i charge my camera!

Use your cell phone to send them to photobucket then post them on here

[DaddysLilGurl]

Originally Posted by chimmike

+1. Something's 'fishy' here. you wanted the 'biggest' tank, but don't know how big it is? Is your dad helping you with this? Methinks after dumping that kind of money into a tank and fish, daddy would be interested in maintaining his investment.......

i just took the biggest "pretty" tank on the shelf. There were 3 sizes i took the biggest one . My daddy knows as much as me!! And im sorry, maybe some people have more shopping money than others!!

[slumlord]

Wow..........

[DaddysLilGurl]

you guys are horrible!! i came here for help and all i get is trash talk!! ((

[freeswimmingfis]

don't feed the trolls

[2Addicted]

Originally Posted by DaddysLilGurl

i just took the biggest "pretty" tank on the shelf. There were 3 sizes i took the biggest one . My daddy knows as much as me!! And im sorry, maybe some people have more shopping money than others!!

so your asking for help and bragging about your money? Maybe daddy will go buy you a reef tutor or something.

[DaddysLilGurl]

why do you keep on mentioning troll? what is this the harry potter forum? im so confused!!

[chimmike]

seriously. What 15 year old girl doesn't have a camera phone?

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