wildroseofky
Aquarium Advice Addict
I posted this on the unhealthy fish board but have gotten no input into anything but my CO2 and PH. The conversation has somehow gotten off topic. Could someone please read through my post and see if they can help me figure out why they died so I can correct the situation before trying again.http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f17/loach-may-have-ich-257219.html
They were fine in QT but when I added them to my main tank, they were all dead within a few days. Their color faded and they stayed at the top of my tank in the moss tree that I have. That is where I found them all dead. When I removed them from my tank their gills were blood red. All my other fish are fine. I even found a baby ghost shrimp that survived its larval stage and is a very tiny shrimp now. Something I was told almost never happens. My PH has been getting low from my CO2. Could the swings in PH have killed them? I am also dealing with a cyno bacteria outbreak. I have ordered erythromycin to take care of that. nothing else has worked. Could that have killed them? I have 2 adult mollies and 2 one month old fry, 3 nerite snails, and now 8 ghost shrimp. One a baby. All are doing find. Ammonia reading stays at 0, nitrite 0, I have been having trouble with nitrate jumping up to 80. I have been keeping a close eye on it and doing massive water changes when it goes up. Could that have killed them? I feel so bad because they died. I want to get more but think I am going to wait for a few months before getting
any. I want to figure out what happened with this batch. I hope someone can help me.
They were fine in QT but when I added them to my main tank, they were all dead within a few days. Their color faded and they stayed at the top of my tank in the moss tree that I have. That is where I found them all dead. When I removed them from my tank their gills were blood red. All my other fish are fine. I even found a baby ghost shrimp that survived its larval stage and is a very tiny shrimp now. Something I was told almost never happens. My PH has been getting low from my CO2. Could the swings in PH have killed them? I am also dealing with a cyno bacteria outbreak. I have ordered erythromycin to take care of that. nothing else has worked. Could that have killed them? I have 2 adult mollies and 2 one month old fry, 3 nerite snails, and now 8 ghost shrimp. One a baby. All are doing find. Ammonia reading stays at 0, nitrite 0, I have been having trouble with nitrate jumping up to 80. I have been keeping a close eye on it and doing massive water changes when it goes up. Could that have killed them? I feel so bad because they died. I want to get more but think I am going to wait for a few months before getting
any. I want to figure out what happened with this batch. I hope someone can help me.