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I got my first fish, a male Platy, and I kept him in a 3 gallon quarantine tank for 3 weeks so far. Today, he was discovered with fin rot all of a sudden. Last morning he was perfectly fine, clear beautiful fins, eating, active. I had to stay over somewhere else last night, so I couldn't give the tank a water change. (I do a water change every single night, knowing that my tank is way too small.) But looks like that wasn't a good idea, as he is currently in horrible, sad conditions. I had noticed the ammonia was rising slowly, from 0ppm to 0.25ppm to 0.50 ppm. But I didn't know how bad it would get for not changing the water just one day.
His condition is very bad right now, all his fins are experiencing fin rot, wasting way and ragged and white. By all his fins, I mean all of them, including the tail fin and even the top fin above him. There's even some peeling around his eyes. He is also slowly flipping over. His position right now is upright, face to the surface, and he is laying by some fake plants to keep himself still, instead of floating around with the current of the filter. I changed an entire gallon of the 3 gallons, and added a lot more of Prime.
I just set up a new 10 gallon quarantine tank, but it needs to cycle, so I'm afraid of putting him in there. The new tank is currently using a used, cycled filter, and I dropped a few cycled gravel stones in there, and a raw shrimp, to cycle.
Is there something else I can do to try to save him? I really don't want him to die.
His condition is very bad right now, all his fins are experiencing fin rot, wasting way and ragged and white. By all his fins, I mean all of them, including the tail fin and even the top fin above him. There's even some peeling around his eyes. He is also slowly flipping over. His position right now is upright, face to the surface, and he is laying by some fake plants to keep himself still, instead of floating around with the current of the filter. I changed an entire gallon of the 3 gallons, and added a lot more of Prime.
I just set up a new 10 gallon quarantine tank, but it needs to cycle, so I'm afraid of putting him in there. The new tank is currently using a used, cycled filter, and I dropped a few cycled gravel stones in there, and a raw shrimp, to cycle.
Is there something else I can do to try to save him? I really don't want him to die.