Using waterconditioner to remove chlorine, chloramine, heavy metals and hydrated lime, you MUST NOT LET IT SIT FOR 24 HOURS !

USE IT STRAIGHT AWAY !
Also add bebeficial bacteria.

Letting the water stand around for 24 hours... ehom, honestly, it's the most useless piece of sh*t that anybody ever came up with.
Or let me re-phrase, it's useless to be doing it NOW when we have all the wonderful water conditioners that treat the water instantly and make it usable in the tank. In other words: Letting the water stand = waste of time and effort.

water conditioner a must with most water supplies nowadays because of cloramines they WILL NOT evaporate when left sitting so you have to use something to get rid of them now that water companies add them to water supplies. Now if you have well water or a great wateer supply like minde lol thats different. and like others said really a waste of time to let sit since you have to use stuff anyways.

I have some bad news that i am going to share with everyone because i dont want others to make my st*pid mistakes. I have lost 10 of my babies now and am most likely going to lose the other 5. First mistake is i added another fish i only quarentined for a week (d*mb a**) well they got a fungus. I treated with a great medicine i have but I never verified the gallons of the tank i bought used. it is a streched out hexagon that isnt made anymore so cant even find it online. well i trusted the seller who had tank from new to know gallons and that was the really big mistake. I dosed the medication for a tank that it turns out I am almost 10 gallons smaller than and i overdosed them. Didnt know what was going on for a mild fungus to kill them off like that then i figurged it out i had ODed my babies. I am devistated. I have 5 left but 2 look really bad be suprized if they make it through night and only one seems normal so i pray for it. But think the meds and the illness just was too much for their young bodies. So please everyone quarentine for at least 4 weeks and before dosing know exact size of tank. The guilt of this is horrible.

I'm so sorry to hear about that Aimee Don't feel bad after a week of quarantining and not seeing anything bad, I imagine most people would introduce their fish to the tank. Diseases can be mysterious as we've all learnt and sometimes medications are even harder to deal with!

Have you done some big water changes and added carbon to get rid of the overdosed medication? It may save the rest of your babies.

Please don't feel bad, you were only trying to help.

Oh no Aimee you lost a few well they lived a good life at the time theylived with you.

I'm so sorry that happened but ty so much for sharing this information with us and letting us know how important these things are.  I was going to ask how long you qt for and now I know not to skimp on this.  You may not have been able to save these guys but trust me you probably saved one of my future fishies for sure.   I will take this as a lesson learned as I know you did. 

Thanks all for everything.
yes i didn water changes removed meds the restarted at proper dose once all ok (on advise of fishyfarmacy). Its just they got too weak from it and it caused to much damage. I have 3 left 2 of which are looking good other one is weak but i have fingers crossed. I can just hope they are strong enough to over come this most were not. the other fish (tricolor oranda baby that i adore and the ryukin, and oranda babies that are my 5 years old daughters [ones that i didnt QT long enough]) are all doing ok. Guess the babies were just to young. crossing my finger that sparkles my tricolor and maycee's two fish keep doing well if stinky or yuki die she will be devistated.
I do hope this tragedy does help some fish in the future.

Man, it's hard with some of those stranger shaped tanks... you'd have to be a maths genius to figure out how to calculate the size!!
Well, I wish you all the best and I hope your fishies will make it!

Geometry rocks

I put them in a bucket with some of the tank water. Then as quickly as possible I cleaned out their tank really well incase any yuckies because of dying and because of meds also got water out of filter wiped it down and changed media except for the bio wheels since thats where all my good bacteria is. I filled a tank i know exact gallons of with water then transfered to the odd tank (babies tank) with a siphon. Then what was left I put in with a 1 gallon pitcher I had. I got exact gallons that way (no math YEAH!). Then i treated and put babies back in once i made sure temp was same between them (wasnt going to float the babies in bags in that toxic water). I also added more of the super-bac nitrifying bacteria stuff that always cycles my tanks within a day just in case meds killed all my good stuff on bio-wheels. Got that tank loaded with lots of aeration also.

I was right that the one baby was too weak he passed last night

 The two I have left are ones that would have been considered a cull because of size and one has curled gils. But are little fighters and deserve their shot as much as others. Not one hunded percent sure those two out of woods yet and a bit worried about my tri-color sparkles. But they are doing decent just have to recover from a tramatic event. Hopefully none left have any permenant damage. Thanks for all your support guys it does help. It will take awhile for me to stop beating myself up about this.

Hanna Say wha'!

Sorry time for bad news guys. I guess the overdose was just to much for the little ones they have all died now. My daughters little fish from same tank and my little tri-color thriving so i assume their young bodies could'nt adjust to the medications being off so much. I know i learned a big lesson about medicating and knowing exact gallons. If they left its probably for best because as bad as it seems to be they probably would have had health problems. I am hoping the other fish that were in tank (which are doing great) have now permenant damage. They will get the best i can give. RIP little babies!

So sorry to hear this Aimee, I hope your other fish will be alright now!

  So sad... Sorry to hear this Aimee, RIP litlle fishies

Poor Orandas