nicktrubilla
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have a fairly new tank with some serious problems. At the peak of tank population two days ago, I had four guppies, two mollies, one gourami, and one mystery snail. I went through a whole nightmare (you can read what happened on the getting started section, the thread is titled "Ammonia Concern") where I lost a black molly, two guppies and a two baby mollies yesterday. One was dead and stuck to the filter tube in the morning, and everything else died through the course of the day. The molly and one guppy looked infected with Ich. I did massive water changes yesterday and that seemed to help out my remaining fish who were all hovering near the surface. This morning, there was another dead molly baby floating in the water and my remaining molly was hiding. Upon inspection, it seemed to have the white growths around its mouth from Ich as well (my diagnosis). I did add the two guppies that died and the gourami four days ago. The other fish looked uninfected but were again hanging around the top so I did another water change this morning, around 30% or so. I'm aware of the mistakes I made introducing the fish, and especially buying them from Petsmart. But now I want to focus on saving these last two guppies and the blue dwarf gourami. I turned up the heater a little bit to begin the process of warming up the tank. I'm a new fishkeeper and I need advice to battle this infection successfully.
Parameters now: 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0ish nitrate. Temperature should now be at 81. P.h. at 7.6
Parameters now: 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0ish nitrate. Temperature should now be at 81. P.h. at 7.6