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If your fish are dying soon after you buy them, it's probably due either to incorrectly acclimatising them, or else water quality. When you buy fish, you should float the bag of fish in your tank for at least ten minutes so the water in the bag becomes the same temperature as the water in the tank. Then open the bag and mix a little of the tank water with the water in the bag. Do this three or four more times over half an hour or so. This adjusts the fish to the pH and hardness of the water in your tank. Then net the fish and put them in your tank. If the fish are dying and it's a new tank, it's probably not cycled. This website: www.fishforums.net has a new to the hobby section with lots of pinned topics on cycling. If you were told to let your tank sit for a few days/weeks running to cycle it, given a bottled product to cycle it, or not told about cycling, you have been given incorrect advice. Check out the pinned topics; they will help you a lot.

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