Help! I have resilient fin rot affecting 6 of my 11 fish!
I first noticed it last August with my 3 corydoras elegans. I treated my tank with Melafix. When I didn't see improvement, I moved the 3 elegans to a hospital tank and continued treating them with Melafix (which didn't work), and then treated them with tetracycline (which did work). I moved them back to the main tank around the middle of October.
Around the first of this year, I noticed the tail of one of my elegans wasting away again. I treated the main tank with Melafix as I'd done last time. Still no improvement. Then I moved the 3 elegans back to the hospital tank and treated them with tetracycline. I saw improvement but when I stopped treatment, the fin and tail rot returned. Since then, I've left them in the hospital tank and haven't treated them with anything else.
I have now noticed all 3 of my corydoras aeneus in my main tank are showing signs of wasting fins and tails. 8O My 5 glow light tetras seem unaffected at this time.
MAIN TANK:
20 gallon set up in May of 2005
Millennium 1000 filter
ph: 7.2
kh: 80 ppm
gh: 75 ppm
nitrite: 0 ppm
nitrate: 20 ppm
3 corydoras aeneus (affected)
5 glow light tetras (not affected)
diet of frozen blood worms and shrimp (unchanged)
Last PWC (25%) on 3/6/07 (do this twice per month)
HOSPITAL TANK:
5 gallon set up in October of 2005
Millennium 1000 filter
ph: 7.8
kh: 120 ppm
gh: 150 ppm
nitrite: 0 ppm
nitrate: 15 ppm
3 corydoras elegans (affected)
diet of frozen blood worms and shrimp (unchanged)
Last PWC (50%) on 3/6/07
Does anyone know how I can cure this? :? Are my glow light tetras in danger of catching it too? 8O It would be worse for them because they don't rest on the bottom like the corys.
I first noticed it last August with my 3 corydoras elegans. I treated my tank with Melafix. When I didn't see improvement, I moved the 3 elegans to a hospital tank and continued treating them with Melafix (which didn't work), and then treated them with tetracycline (which did work). I moved them back to the main tank around the middle of October.
Around the first of this year, I noticed the tail of one of my elegans wasting away again. I treated the main tank with Melafix as I'd done last time. Still no improvement. Then I moved the 3 elegans back to the hospital tank and treated them with tetracycline. I saw improvement but when I stopped treatment, the fin and tail rot returned. Since then, I've left them in the hospital tank and haven't treated them with anything else.
I have now noticed all 3 of my corydoras aeneus in my main tank are showing signs of wasting fins and tails. 8O My 5 glow light tetras seem unaffected at this time.
MAIN TANK:
20 gallon set up in May of 2005
Millennium 1000 filter
ph: 7.2
kh: 80 ppm
gh: 75 ppm
nitrite: 0 ppm
nitrate: 20 ppm
3 corydoras aeneus (affected)
5 glow light tetras (not affected)
diet of frozen blood worms and shrimp (unchanged)
Last PWC (25%) on 3/6/07 (do this twice per month)
HOSPITAL TANK:
5 gallon set up in October of 2005
Millennium 1000 filter
ph: 7.8
kh: 120 ppm
gh: 150 ppm
nitrite: 0 ppm
nitrate: 15 ppm
3 corydoras elegans (affected)
diet of frozen blood worms and shrimp (unchanged)
Last PWC (50%) on 3/6/07
Does anyone know how I can cure this? :? Are my glow light tetras in danger of catching it too? 8O It would be worse for them because they don't rest on the bottom like the corys.