Recent content by Engel

Planning how to stock your tank, and bringing home a little at a time is so much fun! :)

Since you mentioned it I do have a question about that. Say you have something highly contagious like this stuff, and most of your fish have it. Sould you crowd that majority 95g stock into a 30g qt to treat them? In my current case I couldn't because I ordered baby angels about two days before...

16 days is really fast! This 30g took about that to get where it is with some bio material from a cycled tank! The tank I cycled without seed took around two months. Let's not even get on how long my newbie "I added fish first!" mistake took. The tap water you begin with must have a lot to do...

Ok now I am getting readings around 40 Nitrate. Questions still stands though. Am I cycled? Can I do a pwc to reduce the ammonia and nitites, or am I supposed to let them drop to zero on their own?

I have been dealing with a similaer sounding problem. You can read the details in my two threads Ich and velvet and Please help sick angels both in this forum. FINALLY they are getting better, and as your lfs guy told you in your case, mine turns out to have been a bacterial "fungus". I began...

Oh. Today is the first test. Rather the first test showing nitrates... Let me try again. Maybe I didn't shake enough. lol

I have been cycling a 30g that I seeded with filter media from another tank. For quite a while I had 4+ppm ammonia, and 5 nitrite with no nitrates. Today I tested, and have 4ppm ammonia, 5ppm nitrite, and at least 80ppm nitrate. Should I leave it be until the ammonia and nitrite are 0, or can I...

And now.... Finished with the Rid Ich... still coated, and beginning to act sluggish, but still eating. Flashing some now. Dosed with Melafix, and Pimafix, but no real improvement yet. Bought some API Triple Sulfa, and some medicated food for bacteria after work, and when I got home, not only...

BUMPING this again. PLEASE... I am desperate for more input from others who might have experienced this. Can anyone concur that it is likely bacterial? They still don't look better as far as the coating and red outlines so I am done with the Rid Ich +. THat was supposed to have knocked out "many...

Possibly they survived in your filter media? You didn't mention it, but I assume you put the same filter media back in. My sister had a battle with these, and she finally wiped them out with salt, quick cure, and daily gravel cleaning for MANY days. I understand also that they can not survive...

Unfortunately, I went ahead and dosed the third and final treatment of Rid Ich+. It's supposed to also clear fungal infections, and this coating is not going away at all. So it's secondary bacterial? :confused: The pleco has large patches now, and I think a strip on his tail is missing! They...

As of this morning they are not visibly any better. Maybe a little worse or maybe not. You know how it is when you are worried, and looking for signs. So this is after two doses of Rid Ich +. Booooo! They still are not acting sick yet. Active, and hungry, although I heard that skipping a...

A 95g 5 green coydras 5 neon tetras 1 otto 1 LARGE pleco 2 hd size angels 2 quarter size angels Water parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 5 nitrate, Ph between 7.8 and 8 (always has been high). I noticed my angels first. No weird behavior really, and no loss of appetight, but white spots on...

OK I got the rid ich, and I'm going to do a huge water change and dose them tonight. Cross your fingers for me! I don't want to loose these angels!

By the way water parameters are fine. 95g. Current stock: 5 green coydras 5 neon tetras 1 otto 1 LARGE pleco 2 hd size angels 2 quarter size angels I recently added two the two small angels from PetSmart who do not appear to be sick, but I can not think of where else it would have come from. I...