TomCarter13
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I'm starting to think my tank is cursed with gill flukes or something and I'm starting to get really sick of it.
A couple months back I had started off with some new discus and they had gill flukes or something and it got out of hand. Constant flashing, hiding, not eating etc. I had a similar problem with the group of discus I keep before that. After my first lot of discus. I kept getting new fish that ended up with gill flukes or they would just randomly scratch/flash on objects in the tank. I had goldfish and then the second batch of discus and now the pearls.
Anyway, Once all those discus died (I seriously hit rock bottom in fish keeping) I decided to rid all the plants, ornaments, empty the tank water and really clean out the fish tank and filter. Then, I let it sit and dry out for 1 month and a half.
I started out by adding plants that came from plant only aquariums with NO snails etc. I monitored water parameters as I had a real problem with that last time to and I got it all good after just 4 weeks! At 5 weeks I added a small group of 6 penguin tetras to start off with and they are doing great! They do not scratch. They eat everything and are always active. Really don't have a problem with them.
It's the 6th week and I just bought a male and female pearl gourami 5 days ago. In the store I remember seeing the fish and thinking that they didn't seem that colourful? But I was so happy I finally found a male and female because they were so hard to find at this stage.
In my tank they seemed okay on the day I introduced them. But since the first full day to now. They have both been really pale in colour. They have been eating well. They eat frozen brineshrimp and bloodworm as well as a JBL pellet food.
So the pearls have been pale in colour and I have also noticed some flashing (hate that word now).
What the heck do I do? I am probably going to be rid of them as I do not want to risk my whole tank becoming infected again
I know I shouldn't have really trusted the store I got the pearls from. They have sold me a fish with hole in the head? What the heck? It started out small on a honey gourami (it was one of my first fish).
I can't afford the prazi medicine because there is basically only one good type which is $50+ for 50ml in New Zealand and it's not even in the stores around where I live so I have to ship.
Just wondering, does anyone else have this problem?
What fish have very little chance of gill flukes etc?
Why am I constantly having to deal with this?
Can pearls live in sanded aquariums? Heard it can fade there colour because they like darker environments.
My water parameters are
pH: 6.8 (actually stays there now too)
Am: 0ppm
Tri: 0ppm
Tra: 5-10ppm
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I'm starting to think my tank is cursed with gill flukes or something and I'm starting to get really sick of it.
A couple months back I had started off with some new discus and they had gill flukes or something and it got out of hand. Constant flashing, hiding, not eating etc. I had a similar problem with the group of discus I keep before that. After my first lot of discus. I kept getting new fish that ended up with gill flukes or they would just randomly scratch/flash on objects in the tank. I had goldfish and then the second batch of discus and now the pearls.
Anyway, Once all those discus died (I seriously hit rock bottom in fish keeping) I decided to rid all the plants, ornaments, empty the tank water and really clean out the fish tank and filter. Then, I let it sit and dry out for 1 month and a half.
I started out by adding plants that came from plant only aquariums with NO snails etc. I monitored water parameters as I had a real problem with that last time to and I got it all good after just 4 weeks! At 5 weeks I added a small group of 6 penguin tetras to start off with and they are doing great! They do not scratch. They eat everything and are always active. Really don't have a problem with them.
It's the 6th week and I just bought a male and female pearl gourami 5 days ago. In the store I remember seeing the fish and thinking that they didn't seem that colourful? But I was so happy I finally found a male and female because they were so hard to find at this stage.
In my tank they seemed okay on the day I introduced them. But since the first full day to now. They have both been really pale in colour. They have been eating well. They eat frozen brineshrimp and bloodworm as well as a JBL pellet food.
So the pearls have been pale in colour and I have also noticed some flashing (hate that word now).
What the heck do I do? I am probably going to be rid of them as I do not want to risk my whole tank becoming infected again
I know I shouldn't have really trusted the store I got the pearls from. They have sold me a fish with hole in the head? What the heck? It started out small on a honey gourami (it was one of my first fish).I can't afford the prazi medicine because there is basically only one good type which is $50+ for 50ml in New Zealand and it's not even in the stores around where I live so I have to ship.
Just wondering, does anyone else have this problem?
What fish have very little chance of gill flukes etc?
Why am I constantly having to deal with this?
Can pearls live in sanded aquariums? Heard it can fade there colour because they like darker environments.
My water parameters are
pH: 6.8 (actually stays there now too)
Am: 0ppm
Tri: 0ppm
Tra: 5-10ppm
Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
