[hmlchinadoll]

Hiii everyone! This is my first time posting on this forum, so I hope this is the right board for my topic. Anyways, I have a 5-10 gallon aquarium(not quite sure how many gallons) that I have been having issues with. I've had it over 2 years now, and it has never really had much of a success. I've just recently started it back up again, hoping to breed fish. I took it outside and rinsed it out good, and then used aquarium wipes to get the remaining dirt out. I added all new gravel, plants, and water to it. I added Stress Coat and Proper pH 7.0 to the water. The next day I went to Saluda River and bought a Zebra Danio to cycle the aquarium's new set up. The Zebra Danio did good for about 2 days, but then on the 3rd I noticed it was floating with it's head up higher than it's body. I noticed the temperature had rised to 78 degrees, when I usally try to keep it no hotter than 75 degrees. So I took her out and changed about 25% of the water and reapplied the Stress Coat and Proper pH 7.0. Once the water was fixed, I put the Zebra Danio in a ziplock bag and let it float inside of the aquarium for about 30 minutes to get use to the water change. I put the fish into my net and was just about to place her in the aquarium when I noticed she wasn't moving around. I looked real close and noticed she wasn't even breathing. I was about to go ahead and keep her out of the water, when I decided to go ahead and put her in the water to see what would happen. Several minutes later, her body was still floating around, but I noticed she was breathing heavily. I added aquarium salt and put some food into the aquarium to try and get her to come back to normal, but she just kept floating. Maybe 15 minutes later, she started showing some signs of auctual life. My mom suggested that I add an air stone to the aquarium to supply the fish with more oxygen. The fish seemed to be doing better. I noticed she was still acting a bit wrong, so I kinda thumped at the side of the aquarium. I believe that could have been a mistake because she started jumping around in and out of the water. Now she is still floating around but still showing signs of breathing. Do ya'll think she has a chance of still living? Am I doing everything that I should? If you have any advice, that would be great.


Thanks-
Heather


Before I changed water and cleaned aquarium:

Nitrate- 200 (unsafe)
Nitrite- .5 (caution)
Hardness- 0 (low)
Alkalinity- 0 (low)
pH- 6.2 (acidic)


Current test result:

Nitrate- 20 (safe)
Nitrite- 0 (safe)
Hardness- 0 (very soft)
Alkalinity-180 (ideal)
pH- 6.8 (neutral)



I will try and add pics here soon......