Bkmrsteel
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I'm ranting a little, in advance, sorry
My local petsmart is remodeling and had a super fish sale. I got 4 phantom tetras for 89c each, and two others for a little more. They looked fine at the store, but after 24 hours in my tank I noticed what I thought was bubbles on them. 4 days now, and its looking more worse then better, also realizing its probably ich after all. Two are covered fairly bad, others have a few spots.
It has taken all my effort to keep the tank under 80 with summer around, even took the heater out. Adding an air pump to get it just below 78.
Over the past 6 hours now I have raised my tank temp up to 85-86, changed 8gal of my 40 gal tank, and raised my salinity some.
My bumble bee cat dose not seem to like the warm water, and I'm not adding to much salt bc of the snails in the tank as well.
What am I doing wrong, and what more can I do?
My local petsmart is remodeling and had a super fish sale. I got 4 phantom tetras for 89c each, and two others for a little more. They looked fine at the store, but after 24 hours in my tank I noticed what I thought was bubbles on them. 4 days now, and its looking more worse then better, also realizing its probably ich after all. Two are covered fairly bad, others have a few spots.
It has taken all my effort to keep the tank under 80 with summer around, even took the heater out. Adding an air pump to get it just below 78.
Over the past 6 hours now I have raised my tank temp up to 85-86, changed 8gal of my 40 gal tank, and raised my salinity some.
My bumble bee cat dose not seem to like the warm water, and I'm not adding to much salt bc of the snails in the tank as well.
What am I doing wrong, and what more can I do?