paintbug
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
i have a 55 gallon freshwater tank. i first started it about 2 years ago, about 1 year ago the heater broke without me noticing and wiped out the few fish i had in it. i just let it set until recently. i moved it into another room. i kept about 5-10 gal of the old water. i set it up got the temp up set the PH to 7.0 and added some fish. this was about 3 weeks ago. the first fish were some black neons, and two gaurmi's (sp), i also have a Dojo Loach from another tank. well the first black neons showed signs of ick, little white specs on the body, bouncing around, etc. so i run to the LFS and pic up some medicine. i followed the dosage to the letter with out any luck they all ended up dieing. then the gaurmi's had spots. i used the ick med for 4 days with no luck more spots showed up. i did a water change about 25%, waited 2 days picked up some more neons and different med (just in case) sure enough they started getting the spots. so i started the new med. they looked like they were getting better, then yesterday i wake up and i have 6 dead fish, and today the other neons died and i just lost one of the gaurmi's. any ideas? i have started to raise the temp slowly, right now its at 78*. all my test are good except the nitrite is at 1.0. thanks for any help and sorry its so long!