Sa777
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
1~What type of fish is afflicted? No immediately visible symptoms, if any they are barely noticeable.
2~ What are your tank parameters? 0 ammonia, nitrites, and miniscule nitrates.
3~ How large is the tank? How long has the tank been set up? 20 galllon. It has been set up for a month and cycled for a week.
4~What type of filtration are you using? Too lazy to go look all that up. Keeps the water clean and does its job. Not part of the problem.
5~How many fish are in the tank? What kinds of fish are they and what are their current sizes? 2 living peppered cories (two died yesterday), 1 turquoise rainbowfish full size, 1 red tailed shark full sized.
6~When is the last time you did a water change and vacuum the gravel? I keep my tank clean and change the water (20%) every other week.
7~How long have you had the fish? If the fish is new, how did you acclimate it/them? (the rainbow and shark are almost 2 years old. Two cories were a month old. I added two more from Petsmart three days ago. One added from Petsmart died and one of the 1 month old ones died almost out of nowhere two days after the Petsmart ones were added.
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--decor, new dechlorinator, new substrate, etc.? Nope
9~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently? A reliable food that isn't part of the problem.
Story: I started cycling my 20 gallon tank a little over a month ago with 2 tough fish. One was a turquoise rainbow, the other a red tailed shark. About half a week into the cycle I bought two small peppered cories from Petsmart. During the entire cycle all fish were fine no bullying or stressed fish. When my nitrites dropped three days ago I was eager to add more fish so I went out to Petsmart and bought 2 more cories noticeably larger than my other two. The larger of the two had red around his mouth, but I thought nothing of it. The red faded soon after I put him in. Also 3-4 rocks from the Petsmart tank fell in mine when I put the cories in. They all seamed fine, no fighting, everyone was happy. I wake up two days later and the biggest cory was floating. I so upset I immediately flushed him, but from what I can remember, he looked fine. I went back into the room and was infuriated when I found one of the month old cories taking his last few breaths at the bottom of the tank. He would try to swim but when he stopped he started to turn over. I isolated him and he died over the course of an hour. I examined him, and from what I could see he looked perfectly healthy. There was some blood leaking from his gills, but I think it was just because he was dead. I got my refund him and the Petsmart people told me it could be a bacterial infection from the newly introduced cories. They gave me API melafix. I used it as soon as I got home. My fish seem to be inactive, but it may just be my imagination. Is there anything else I can do? Is there anything besides a bacterial infection that could be causing the problem? Please Help!
2~ What are your tank parameters? 0 ammonia, nitrites, and miniscule nitrates.
3~ How large is the tank? How long has the tank been set up? 20 galllon. It has been set up for a month and cycled for a week.
4~What type of filtration are you using? Too lazy to go look all that up. Keeps the water clean and does its job. Not part of the problem.
5~How many fish are in the tank? What kinds of fish are they and what are their current sizes? 2 living peppered cories (two died yesterday), 1 turquoise rainbowfish full size, 1 red tailed shark full sized.
6~When is the last time you did a water change and vacuum the gravel? I keep my tank clean and change the water (20%) every other week.
7~How long have you had the fish? If the fish is new, how did you acclimate it/them? (the rainbow and shark are almost 2 years old. Two cories were a month old. I added two more from Petsmart three days ago. One added from Petsmart died and one of the 1 month old ones died almost out of nowhere two days after the Petsmart ones were added.
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--decor, new dechlorinator, new substrate, etc.? Nope
9~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently? A reliable food that isn't part of the problem.
Story: I started cycling my 20 gallon tank a little over a month ago with 2 tough fish. One was a turquoise rainbow, the other a red tailed shark. About half a week into the cycle I bought two small peppered cories from Petsmart. During the entire cycle all fish were fine no bullying or stressed fish. When my nitrites dropped three days ago I was eager to add more fish so I went out to Petsmart and bought 2 more cories noticeably larger than my other two. The larger of the two had red around his mouth, but I thought nothing of it. The red faded soon after I put him in. Also 3-4 rocks from the Petsmart tank fell in mine when I put the cories in. They all seamed fine, no fighting, everyone was happy. I wake up two days later and the biggest cory was floating. I so upset I immediately flushed him, but from what I can remember, he looked fine. I went back into the room and was infuriated when I found one of the month old cories taking his last few breaths at the bottom of the tank. He would try to swim but when he stopped he started to turn over. I isolated him and he died over the course of an hour. I examined him, and from what I could see he looked perfectly healthy. There was some blood leaking from his gills, but I think it was just because he was dead. I got my refund him and the Petsmart people told me it could be a bacterial infection from the newly introduced cories. They gave me API melafix. I used it as soon as I got home. My fish seem to be inactive, but it may just be my imagination. Is there anything else I can do? Is there anything besides a bacterial infection that could be causing the problem? Please Help!
