Mebbid
Aquarium Advice Addict
Well there has been something in my tank slowly killing fish over the past 4 months or so of which I have been unsuccessful in eradicating. I thought it was finally gone except that over the past few weeks the symptoms have reappeared with an vengeance. I've tried multiple different treatments recently because of a sudden surge of sick fish and I am really out of ideas at this point.
Symptoms:
All of my guppies have inflamed gills and are gasping at the surface.
Rainbows are showing inflamed gills but not gasping at the surface.
All fish except gourami are breathing heavily.
No other visible issues.
Treatments to date:
Methylene blue dips on guppies
Salt dips on guppies and rainbows.
Full dosing of maracyn plus
Second round of Prazi Pro
Tank:
Heavily planted 55g
EI dosing of dry ferts
20ml glut daily
50% weekly water change
Last water change was yesterday
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 20
pH - 7.8
API master test kit. Tests were performed with 2 different kits just to check accuracy.
Eheim ecco canister filter and a powerhead both pointed at surface causing agitation. I just added venturi attachment putting in an absurd amount of bubbles for extra aeration.
As bad as their gills look I would expect large numbers of fish to be dying soon.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions it would be wonderful.
Symptoms:
All of my guppies have inflamed gills and are gasping at the surface.
Rainbows are showing inflamed gills but not gasping at the surface.
All fish except gourami are breathing heavily.
No other visible issues.
Treatments to date:
Methylene blue dips on guppies
Salt dips on guppies and rainbows.
Full dosing of maracyn plus
Second round of Prazi Pro
Tank:
Heavily planted 55g
EI dosing of dry ferts
20ml glut daily
50% weekly water change
Last water change was yesterday
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 20
pH - 7.8
API master test kit. Tests were performed with 2 different kits just to check accuracy.
Eheim ecco canister filter and a powerhead both pointed at surface causing agitation. I just added venturi attachment putting in an absurd amount of bubbles for extra aeration.
As bad as their gills look I would expect large numbers of fish to be dying soon.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions it would be wonderful.