Where to begin? My tank had finally seemed to finish cycling a few weeks ago. The ammonia levels, and nitrite levels were down to 0. Then my tank was hit by a bacterial infection, and I lost over half my fish in the span of 2 days. There was no warning. I would leave in the morning and the fish would seem fine. When I would get back in the afternoon, and some would be dead.
I got some medicine from the pet store, and that seemed to clear things up, as I lost no more fish. A few weeks later I decided to add a male beta. The water levels were fine at the time. Then a couple of days later he started to develop a small patch of white fuzz on his fins. I immediately called my pet store, and then began to medicate for fungi. Within a day the fish was dead. Then one of my other fish developed a white bulging film over his eyes, and white blotches on his body. Within a day he was dead too. The next day, another fish. I have been medicating for 4 days now, and a forth fish is beginning to show signs of turning ill.
The water has turned a bit hazy, though I am surmising that this is because of the medication. When I checked the water levels though, I was quite shocked. My nitrites had skyrocketed from nothing at all, to almost the limit of the testable range, in a matter of a couple of days (I double tested just to be sure).
My wife thinks some of these problems might be stemming from the large number of snails in my tank. They came in with the plants and have since propagated. I couldn’t say exactly how many there are. They are breeding successfully, and so there are young ones being born all the time. I would guess that there are anywhere from 40-80 snails ranging in size from about half a dime to the head of a pin. Their shells are very shiny and translucent.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the diseases to keep popping up? Why is it that the medication doesn’t seem to be working, or is it that these fish were already too sick internally to recover? And what of these snails? And the wild nitrite swings? I don’t know what to make of all of this. Please HELP!!!!
I got some medicine from the pet store, and that seemed to clear things up, as I lost no more fish. A few weeks later I decided to add a male beta. The water levels were fine at the time. Then a couple of days later he started to develop a small patch of white fuzz on his fins. I immediately called my pet store, and then began to medicate for fungi. Within a day the fish was dead. Then one of my other fish developed a white bulging film over his eyes, and white blotches on his body. Within a day he was dead too. The next day, another fish. I have been medicating for 4 days now, and a forth fish is beginning to show signs of turning ill.
The water has turned a bit hazy, though I am surmising that this is because of the medication. When I checked the water levels though, I was quite shocked. My nitrites had skyrocketed from nothing at all, to almost the limit of the testable range, in a matter of a couple of days (I double tested just to be sure).
My wife thinks some of these problems might be stemming from the large number of snails in my tank. They came in with the plants and have since propagated. I couldn’t say exactly how many there are. They are breeding successfully, and so there are young ones being born all the time. I would guess that there are anywhere from 40-80 snails ranging in size from about half a dime to the head of a pin. Their shells are very shiny and translucent.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the diseases to keep popping up? Why is it that the medication doesn’t seem to be working, or is it that these fish were already too sick internally to recover? And what of these snails? And the wild nitrite swings? I don’t know what to make of all of this. Please HELP!!!!
