Help with fish.. they are dying.?

[sassymama]

My mom gave us a fish tank with 3 fish in it, and we bought 3 others and got given 2 more. Before I took the fish tank I noticed that The her red cap oranda was was weird fish.. sparatic movement, floating lots.. so I asked yahoo answers and swim bladder disease was a common answer. ( I already had all the fish at this time) So I was giving some of the insides of peas and he ate them. 2 days later I find him Dead. Now today I find 2 others dead. One was a brand new ones that I bought and the other was my moms (they never had symptoms of swim bladder disease) IS swim bladder disease contagious? Also a few days after we had the tank the water started turning cloudy and still is . I checked the filer cleaned it out. Whats up with that? The remainder of this are acting weird now. Staying low, almost as if they were bottom feeders. When I got the tank my mom told me to keep the water temp low, her tank was below 0 degrees also the pet store said that gold fish like cool temperatures. When i researched and found out what kind of fish the sick one was (red cap oranda) it says they need to be in 17-28 degrees of water. I told my mom this but she said the fish survived 5 years fine. So ya all my fish are sick please help. I feel like such an idiot, I cant even keep fish alive.
how do i clear the water.. will my other fish survive
I just got these fish last sunday

 

[..Nay..Nay..]

some people probably wont agree with me.. but i say dump the fish.. clean the tank.. dont use anything like cleaning agent or anything.. just wash the tank out.. and start again... my oscar just recently died... he jumped out of the tank literally.. and died he was huge to... something ws wrong with him.. he would hit his head into the glass and knock everything over.. he even tried to kill the other oscar he was living with forever... and he would float sometimes too....

 

[gypsy]

It sounds like a major bacterial problem or a really bad case of "new tank syndrome".
Did you "cycle" the tank before adding fish? How large is the tank and how many fish did you have in there? How often have you been cleaning it? What type of filter do you have?
A bit more info will be necessary in order to give you the proper advice.

 

[?babygal?]

Maybe your tank is too small for all those fish. Goldfish produce a lot of crap If your other fish are all staying at the bottom of the tank chances are they're sick too. :-S How often do you change the water of the tank? Is the filter working fine?

Better luck next time!

 

[Fish lova]

oh its ok, dont say your an idiot. your just helping. but i know how you feel. 2-3 of my fish look like they are dying, but get another small tank, hospital tank, its not a special tank, its just another seperate tank to put fish in when they are sick so the others wont get infected. put your sick fish in the hospital tank and look at the other healthy ones and observe their behavior every 2 hours or every day. if they are doing good then that means the others got them sick b4 when they wer with him. if they are not then that means they are all infected. I hope your fish get better. God bless you and them!

 

[catxcatxx]

What are the actual water parameter readings? You need a full spectrum liquid test kit to work this out.

Swimbladder disease is not necessarily contagious - but whatever has caused it (I suspect a water quality issue) is. The cloudy nature tells me that your tank hasn't cycled or the filter is not powerful enough to handle the amount of mess the fish create. All that cloud is bacteria that should be living in the filter.
http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/The_Nitrogen_Cycle

So what are the water parameters? I suggest a 50% partial water change with dechlorinated water and see if that helps the fish. Be careful how you clean out filters - do not replace filter media nor put the filter media under tap water as this would kill off all the good bacteria that keeps the tank healthy.