Venturer4life
Aquarium Advice Regular
I am putting this here because I could not figure out where else to put it.
ok, so long story short, I believe that I have fungus in my tap water due to insistent outbreaks in mine, my roomates, and other people-who-live-in-my-building's tanks.
We all use various water conditioners (I use API's stress coat), and nothing seems to help. I have treated my tank multiple times with a combo of metafix and pimafix (I know melafix is for bacteria, but I was trying to play on the safe side), which solves the issue, but then when I do a water change, it comes right back in a few days. Same goes for the rest of the people with tanks in my building.
My tank was incredibly healthy before the outbreak. All of my parameters were perfect/kept perfect, albeit I have a low PH, but all of my fish have done fine in it for years (mainly in other tanks). My tank is a 10 gallon planted community tank that I take back and forth with me to college. The outbreak started when I came back from summer break for the fall semester and started using this building's tap water (and no, I do not believe the stress caused it, as I have transported this tank with no issues 3 times in the past).
My issue is, what can I do about my water situation. I can not use the tap (unless someone has a solution for it. (would boiling work possibly?)), making my only option to buy water, which I have heard that bottled spring water does not have the minerals and nutrients that the fish need.
So does anyone have any experience with this issue or any advice?
ok, so long story short, I believe that I have fungus in my tap water due to insistent outbreaks in mine, my roomates, and other people-who-live-in-my-building's tanks.
We all use various water conditioners (I use API's stress coat), and nothing seems to help. I have treated my tank multiple times with a combo of metafix and pimafix (I know melafix is for bacteria, but I was trying to play on the safe side), which solves the issue, but then when I do a water change, it comes right back in a few days. Same goes for the rest of the people with tanks in my building.
My tank was incredibly healthy before the outbreak. All of my parameters were perfect/kept perfect, albeit I have a low PH, but all of my fish have done fine in it for years (mainly in other tanks). My tank is a 10 gallon planted community tank that I take back and forth with me to college. The outbreak started when I came back from summer break for the fall semester and started using this building's tap water (and no, I do not believe the stress caused it, as I have transported this tank with no issues 3 times in the past).
My issue is, what can I do about my water situation. I can not use the tap (unless someone has a solution for it. (would boiling work possibly?)), making my only option to buy water, which I have heard that bottled spring water does not have the minerals and nutrients that the fish need.
So does anyone have any experience with this issue or any advice?