smooth_cannibal
Aquarium Advice Activist
i have now three fm in a 55 gallon tank and i have been just a battling fish disease after another.
3 out of 4 came down with ich within about 24 hrs after getting them home. did heat and salt for ten days.
spent two days getting their temp back down and within 24 hrs the one that didn't get ich came down with hith.
can't think of anything else than water quality as i didn't realize that my water switched to chloramine. was already using microbe lift super dechlorinator + water conditioner but went and had the water tested at the lfs
no abnormality and no spikes as i had been doing a water change because of the ich 3 times a week. picked up a big bottle of paraguard and started dosing all three of my tanks. i seeded the filters on the 10, 55 gallon off my 30 gallon.
on the 3rd day of using paraguard the hith had already started to heal up and things were looking up for the little guys.
but then **** the 4th day. the smallest male (i htink) started slightly breathing rapidly and i thought it was the meds was just stressing him out so i did about a 50 percent water change and within a day he died.
i peeked up under his gills and they looked patchy.
now a few days later the big male that never got ich but got hith now has the look of death like the other one did. ate fine yesterday and yeah not today and is just hiding out.
what else can i do.
3 out of 4 came down with ich within about 24 hrs after getting them home. did heat and salt for ten days.
spent two days getting their temp back down and within 24 hrs the one that didn't get ich came down with hith.
can't think of anything else than water quality as i didn't realize that my water switched to chloramine. was already using microbe lift super dechlorinator + water conditioner but went and had the water tested at the lfs
no abnormality and no spikes as i had been doing a water change because of the ich 3 times a week. picked up a big bottle of paraguard and started dosing all three of my tanks. i seeded the filters on the 10, 55 gallon off my 30 gallon.
on the 3rd day of using paraguard the hith had already started to heal up and things were looking up for the little guys.
but then **** the 4th day. the smallest male (i htink) started slightly breathing rapidly and i thought it was the meds was just stressing him out so i did about a 50 percent water change and within a day he died.
i peeked up under his gills and they looked patchy.
now a few days later the big male that never got ich but got hith now has the look of death like the other one did. ate fine yesterday and yeah not today and is just hiding out.
what else can i do.