Platys

[Jessica5]

I bought a 10 gallon tank earlier this year and I have been having a ton of problems. Every time I put anything other than a platy in it it dies. I first tried platys and had 3 in it for a month of 2 and then went to a fish store and bought 2 gouramis. Long story short 1 had ich from the store and killed all 5 fish.

Round 2 - I got 3 more platys and kept them for 2 months then added 2 guppies and both guppies and 1 platy was dead 2 weeks later. So I bought 2 platys and kept them for 2 MORE months and recently added 2 more platys and a pleco and now 1 new platy and 2 old ones died.

I checked the water and everything was in normal range and I do water changes once a week and I just finished vaccuming the gravel the day before this last round of deaths.

Any suggestions!!

[Meghan]

When you say that you checked your water, what did you check? Did you test your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels?

Welcome to the Tank!

[Jessica5]

I have one of those multi-sticks and it checks the nitrates, nitrites, hardness, and PH and all of them were within the normal range that I've read

[silver dollars]

It could be the source. Try going to a different pet store and get platys from them and see how they do. Welcome to the tank!

[Jessica5]

Well I have not gone back to the original fish store that I got ich from because I know someone else who had the same problem. I've been getting them from Petsmart and Petco. I don't know of any other place to get fish from around here.