tamtam
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I'm looking for some opinions on what others would do in my position.
So a bit of back story.
I had a case of internal parasites/worms that almost wiped my whole tank out. All that remain are a single neon and my 2 inch angelfish. I did a 2 week long treatment of API general cure because it's the only thing locally I could find that treated internal parasites or worms. The angel has finally stopped having white squiggling "poohs" and is doing better. I'm just not sure if I've fixed the issue or not.
My big symptoms aside from the white squiggles from the anus was that all of my fished stopped eating and kept hiding and then would die. My neon is totally fine. It's pretty much got a 30 gallon tank to itself. I haven't seen my angel eat any offered food in over 3 weeks. I have caught him picking at the sides of the tank and algae growth in the tank in the past 2 weeks since starting treatment but when ever I'm near the tank he's hiding in the back behind the plants and D/W. When my lights are off/on low I will catch see from across the room come out and swim around the tank and a few times I can see him out and about when the room is just empty but he's still really timid and spends a great deal of the time hiding.
Now I'm not sure if the hiding is just that he's spooked from the past few weeks. I lost about 14 fish total. He was very social and spent a lot of timing "hanging out" with my platies and gourami.
So I'm almost 2 weeks free of meds, no one has died or shown any worsening effects.. What would you do? Do you think the timid behavior could be stress from loosing so many tank mates? Would you start adding fish back in at some point soon? I have an empty 20 gallon tank I can set up if that makes a difference to how you would handle this situation.
So a bit of back story.
I had a case of internal parasites/worms that almost wiped my whole tank out. All that remain are a single neon and my 2 inch angelfish. I did a 2 week long treatment of API general cure because it's the only thing locally I could find that treated internal parasites or worms. The angel has finally stopped having white squiggling "poohs" and is doing better. I'm just not sure if I've fixed the issue or not.
My big symptoms aside from the white squiggles from the anus was that all of my fished stopped eating and kept hiding and then would die. My neon is totally fine. It's pretty much got a 30 gallon tank to itself. I haven't seen my angel eat any offered food in over 3 weeks. I have caught him picking at the sides of the tank and algae growth in the tank in the past 2 weeks since starting treatment but when ever I'm near the tank he's hiding in the back behind the plants and D/W. When my lights are off/on low I will catch see from across the room come out and swim around the tank and a few times I can see him out and about when the room is just empty but he's still really timid and spends a great deal of the time hiding.
Now I'm not sure if the hiding is just that he's spooked from the past few weeks. I lost about 14 fish total. He was very social and spent a lot of timing "hanging out" with my platies and gourami.
So I'm almost 2 weeks free of meds, no one has died or shown any worsening effects.. What would you do? Do you think the timid behavior could be stress from loosing so many tank mates? Would you start adding fish back in at some point soon? I have an empty 20 gallon tank I can set up if that makes a difference to how you would handle this situation.
