They'd both be fish I would be adding waaay later. I plan to take my time on this whole project.
I got totally screwed by LFS and now I am so paranoid about everything. I bought a 10g tank that he has "prebuilt" with fish. It had cycled, etc and was 6 weeks old....and it had EIGHT fish in it. 1.5 weeks later I am down to 3 fish and they wont refund even though I followed his instructions to the T. I just walked into the store knowing nothing, got excited by the tank and totally suckered.
I feel sorry for the fish!
The wierd thing is we cant figure out WHY they are dieing. Im on another board and no one knows why. Ive been testing the water and the only thing off is nitrates which are 80! But everyone says that wont kill the fish. Im getting ro/di water from the LFS, salinity is 1.022 (was 1.021 and Im slowly bulding it), PH 8.4, nitrites 0, ammonia has always been 0. Temperature is somewhere between 75-79 (sucky little stick on doesnt tell me much).
LFS guy says that because water tests fine, I MUST have poisoned the water somehow with cleaner....whatever. Ive never had any cleaner near that tank.
Anyway, so I have been researching like crazy. Gonna get a bigger tank and start over from scratch. Not sure if the 3 remaining fish will make it. The tank SEEMS to be recovering now. But that's why Im asking so many questions, wanna make sure I do this right this time! (And never go back to that store)