1~What type of fish is afflicted?
Guppys 2 adult (F about to give birth), 3 young. 7 fry White Cloud Mountain Minnow. -Flashing/rubbing against bottom and the plants. The male guppy becomes listless occasionally and lays on bottom. No visible white spots. 4 cory fry no flashing or white spots. 4 baby cherry shrimp. Sounds like lots of fish but most are tiny (low total biomass)
2~What are your tank parameters (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, temp, pH)? Please give exact values.
Master Test kit is 3 days late from mail order. I don't have one as I'd planned to. Kid at petstore said water is "as clean as tap water". ...read from test strips from a water sample taken before 1st cycle. I don't think he knew much of anything. They don't carry the master test kit. I've been cycling 1/2 the water daily for the last 3 days since I consider my water a chemistry to be unknown. I have been feeding just a tiny bit every other day. (no food hitting the bottom.)
3~ How large is the tank? How long has the tank been set up?
37 gal. 1 week, planted, old filter media from an established tank placed in filter upstream of new filter media.
4~What type of filtration are you using?
Topfin 40 external hanging. Crystal clear water.
5~How many fish are in the tank? 16+4 shrimp. It would take 4 to 6 of some of them to = "1 inch of fish" again, very low total mass. What kinds of fish are they and what are their current sizes? See 1. above.
6~When is the last time you did a water change and vacuum the gravel?
Three 1/2 tank PWC's in the last 3 days. Never vacuumed the gravel. I'm attempting to establish some roots in my plants. Tank filled 1st time 7 days ago. How often do you do this? How much water do you remove at a time?
7~How long have you had the fish? 5 days. Bought off Craigs List. Seller a botany PHD getting out of hobby. He breed all the fish. All his fish/shrimp looked healthy. I got a few plants and the used filter media from him too. If the fish is new, how did you acclimate it/them? Floated bag in tank 30 mins then slowly dripped tank water into bag a few times then netted and put in aquarium.
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--decor, new dechlorinator, new substrate, etc.? I may have brought some uninvited guests off plants I got at a high-end fish store. I asked the old sales guy with the King Neptune beard if I should do anything before adding the plants to my tank and he said "Absolutely not. You want the bacteria that's on them"
9~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently? Tetra flakes broken into small pieces. Short/light feeding every other day.
All I can guess is that I either have ich and the fish are so small that it is hard to see white spots (though I can't see any spots on the adult M F guppys). OR bad water. The water is crystal clear and the fish are not gasping for air.
It gets better. I go out of town for a week starting tomorrow.
My ideas after some research. Please tell me if any of them are good solutions:
1. Do nothing.
2. Do I do another PWC.
3. PWC+Get the heat to 86F and add a tablespoon of salt/5 gal water. Will this kill my plants or my young cory or shrimp? If so I'd then try the increased temp only. Any Ich/external parasite meds I've found kill shrimp. I can't catch them either too small.
4. Hope a few people here have a good solution.
I can get minor help while I'm gone from my kid.
Thanks in advance.
Guppys 2 adult (F about to give birth), 3 young. 7 fry White Cloud Mountain Minnow. -Flashing/rubbing against bottom and the plants. The male guppy becomes listless occasionally and lays on bottom. No visible white spots. 4 cory fry no flashing or white spots. 4 baby cherry shrimp. Sounds like lots of fish but most are tiny (low total biomass)
2~What are your tank parameters (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, temp, pH)? Please give exact values.
Master Test kit is 3 days late from mail order. I don't have one as I'd planned to. Kid at petstore said water is "as clean as tap water". ...read from test strips from a water sample taken before 1st cycle. I don't think he knew much of anything. They don't carry the master test kit. I've been cycling 1/2 the water daily for the last 3 days since I consider my water a chemistry to be unknown. I have been feeding just a tiny bit every other day. (no food hitting the bottom.)
3~ How large is the tank? How long has the tank been set up?
37 gal. 1 week, planted, old filter media from an established tank placed in filter upstream of new filter media.
4~What type of filtration are you using?
Topfin 40 external hanging. Crystal clear water.
5~How many fish are in the tank? 16+4 shrimp. It would take 4 to 6 of some of them to = "1 inch of fish" again, very low total mass. What kinds of fish are they and what are their current sizes? See 1. above.
6~When is the last time you did a water change and vacuum the gravel?
Three 1/2 tank PWC's in the last 3 days. Never vacuumed the gravel. I'm attempting to establish some roots in my plants. Tank filled 1st time 7 days ago. How often do you do this? How much water do you remove at a time?
7~How long have you had the fish? 5 days. Bought off Craigs List. Seller a botany PHD getting out of hobby. He breed all the fish. All his fish/shrimp looked healthy. I got a few plants and the used filter media from him too. If the fish is new, how did you acclimate it/them? Floated bag in tank 30 mins then slowly dripped tank water into bag a few times then netted and put in aquarium.
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--decor, new dechlorinator, new substrate, etc.? I may have brought some uninvited guests off plants I got at a high-end fish store. I asked the old sales guy with the King Neptune beard if I should do anything before adding the plants to my tank and he said "Absolutely not. You want the bacteria that's on them"
9~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently? Tetra flakes broken into small pieces. Short/light feeding every other day.
All I can guess is that I either have ich and the fish are so small that it is hard to see white spots (though I can't see any spots on the adult M F guppys). OR bad water. The water is crystal clear and the fish are not gasping for air.
It gets better. I go out of town for a week starting tomorrow.
My ideas after some research. Please tell me if any of them are good solutions:
1. Do nothing.
2. Do I do another PWC.
3. PWC+Get the heat to 86F and add a tablespoon of salt/5 gal water. Will this kill my plants or my young cory or shrimp? If so I'd then try the increased temp only. Any Ich/external parasite meds I've found kill shrimp. I can't catch them either too small.
4. Hope a few people here have a good solution.
I can get minor help while I'm gone from my kid.
Thanks in advance.