Deminox
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29 gallon tank.
Ph 6.8-7.0 week to week stays that area.
Kh is 3, slowly bringing it back to 5
Amonia nitrate nitrite all zero.
2 fancy tail goldfish, 1 pleco.
Finrot started 3 weeks ago. Did a water change, kept an eye, gravel vacced, all that stuff. After a week no progress but it didn't get worse. Started a melafix treatment since my tetras in another tank got a bacterial mouth infection around the same time (nothing is shared between tanks not even nets. Water source is the only common thing, filtered tap water, treated with stress coat and sits for 24 hours before use.)
Week of melafix and one goldfish started to look a little better, not the other. Pleco had been doing fine.
Did the water changes and put the filters back, one goldfish got worse fast. Huge tear down one fin and blood spots on one fin.
Lfs recommended i bring the kh up and the ph up to an even 7 or even 7.1 got some crushed coral. Bought some expensive pellets because they have probiotics in them. Restarted melafix. Added 3 banana plants because lfs said if im already doing a melafix treatment that's a good time to add a plant if i was planning to anyways (i had asked if i should wait. I wanted to add them last week) because on the off chance theres anything bad on the plant the melafix will take care of it.
Very next day both fish bottom sitting, one has red steaks in fins. Pleco is acting drunk.
I read that melafix cant fix an infection only help heal after. I have some TC but i had this same problem last year almost exact time of year and after adding TC one fishes tail just evaporated in a day and she died. Im now terrified to use it again. Not sure what to do.
And NO the tank isnt over crowded people seem to obsess over 2 goldfish in a 29, my levels always test perfect except a drop in the kh recently. Overcrowded there would be amonia spikes or nitrates or nitrites, or something. This is. . I don't know what.
Any help on what to do?
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Ph 6.8-7.0 week to week stays that area.
Kh is 3, slowly bringing it back to 5
Amonia nitrate nitrite all zero.
2 fancy tail goldfish, 1 pleco.
Finrot started 3 weeks ago. Did a water change, kept an eye, gravel vacced, all that stuff. After a week no progress but it didn't get worse. Started a melafix treatment since my tetras in another tank got a bacterial mouth infection around the same time (nothing is shared between tanks not even nets. Water source is the only common thing, filtered tap water, treated with stress coat and sits for 24 hours before use.)
Week of melafix and one goldfish started to look a little better, not the other. Pleco had been doing fine.
Did the water changes and put the filters back, one goldfish got worse fast. Huge tear down one fin and blood spots on one fin.
Lfs recommended i bring the kh up and the ph up to an even 7 or even 7.1 got some crushed coral. Bought some expensive pellets because they have probiotics in them. Restarted melafix. Added 3 banana plants because lfs said if im already doing a melafix treatment that's a good time to add a plant if i was planning to anyways (i had asked if i should wait. I wanted to add them last week) because on the off chance theres anything bad on the plant the melafix will take care of it.
Very next day both fish bottom sitting, one has red steaks in fins. Pleco is acting drunk.
I read that melafix cant fix an infection only help heal after. I have some TC but i had this same problem last year almost exact time of year and after adding TC one fishes tail just evaporated in a day and she died. Im now terrified to use it again. Not sure what to do.
And NO the tank isnt over crowded people seem to obsess over 2 goldfish in a 29, my levels always test perfect except a drop in the kh recently. Overcrowded there would be amonia spikes or nitrates or nitrites, or something. This is. . I don't know what.
Any help on what to do?
This post brought to you by.. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD