jsoong

Hi jsoong,
Last month you helped me nurse my sick/fin rotting fish back to health but I still have a few questions. While his fins have completely grown back (YAY!) he is still stressed out and sitting at the bottom of the tank all the time. I got a liquid test kit (per your advice) and here are my current levels:

pH: 7.4-7.6 Ammonia: <.1 NO2: 0 NO3: 5 (finally going up!)

I ordered a thermometer for my tank on the first of the month and it hasnt arrived yet, but when it does I will be able to tell you the temperature. Nothing else has changed since my past problems, so I'm assuming the temperature is still around 75-80. I have been doing PWC's once a week and everything else seems to be fine, but for some reason he still sits in the corner 75% of the day and it is sad to look at. What do you think is the problem, now that I have the water situation under control?

p.s. my tank is a 45g fw tank with a penguin biowheel 200 filter

Hi jsoong,
You've helped me before with questions and I was hoping you could help once again. Many of my fish have died off in the past couple of months; yesterday a neon, a male guppy over the weekend with dropsy, today i was doing my weekly pwc and found my year old snail's shell empty and it gone. I had 15 neons and i'm down to 4, 11 platys are down to about 5, i lost the momma platy to dropsy a couple of months ago. A female betta was lost to dropsy last month. Could i have a dropsy/bacteria issue? The more aggressive fish seem to be fine; an angel, 2 loaches, a pleco, a catfish, and the frog are seeming to be okay. I use an api test kit (with the test tubes, not the strips) and all the numbers come back perfect- ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate about a 5, ph is at 7.6. Do you gave any idea of what could be causing this happen? Do you know what the average life expectancy is for these kinds of fish? Thank you so much for you help!!!
Ken