Loren
Aquarium Advice Regular
Well, I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that my gourami is doomed. From all that I've been reading, and talking to people, I think I have to go with TB as a diagnosis (or as good a guess as I can make without a fish clinic to take it too). Now my dilema continues...what do I co about the rest of my tank? I have four other fish (and an amazing snail) in the 10 gal. I was reading a previous posting about someone who had a blue gourami with the same symptoms, and after he euthenized his fish, he had to strip the tank down and wash it out with bleach. Do I really have to do that?!! And if my other fish have it (although for all appearances they're healthy...touch wood), wouldn't they just recontaminate a clean tank. I think I should just keep the rest of the tank as usual, and wait and see what happens...Now here's another problem...my child is very young and very upset that her blue fish is sick and might have to go away...I really want to play 'switcheroo', and go get another blue gourami and hope she thinks it's hers (she's too young yet to understand life and death and all that). Can I do that, or is it a death-sentence to some poor unsuspecting fish?