dwencel24
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello everyone,
I'm a new owner of a freshwater aquarium. Most of the basic info about my tank is on my profile. I have lots of problems right now in my tank and I need professional and advance advices from you.
This will be long. Please bear with me.
I had a 10 gallon before. Had an ich infestation (an injured fish started - that fish died along with my pregnant fish - both of them are mollies). On this case, I used medication but didnt work. Other fishes survived including the scaleless. I decided to upgrade to 20 gallons because I believe I have over stocked. So, I have same number and type of fishes including 3 mollies. Two of them were new. The next day after the purchase, the two new pregnant mollies had ich. I increased the temp to 85. It didn't work because those two died long with one molly that survived the first ich infestation in the 10 gallon. The remaining fishes I have are the ones listed in my profile. I'm currently observing for another possible infestation. In this case, no medication. I'm not a big fan of medication. I am a chemist major so I know these stuff in medications.
1. First question. How long should I observe my fishes just to be sure ich infestation won't occur again? It been two weeks since the last infestation.
2. Based on my profile, do you think I still have overstocked? I just went today in an aquatic shop for water test. They said that my nitrate and nitrite are high and advised to add more bacteria since the aquarium is new and since I just changed 25% water yesterday. They also mentioned that I have too much bottom feeders.
I added about 20 ml of bacteria supplement in my tank now.
Here's another problem. I bought the water wisteria and anacharis yesterday and decided to soaked them in water with bleach due to snail, parasite and ich anxiety. Now, my wisteria' leaves are kind of melted - some have holes and some lost there green part. The anacharis have the worst case. Majority of the leave turned transparent. I rise them many times after the bleach like 5-6 times and soaked them to decloronated water before introducing to my 20 gallon tank.
3. Will they survive? I immediately turned on the lights. I am planning to buy the API leaf zone hoping for my plants to regenerate or survive.
4. My water wisteria by the way have small white salt-like grain under some of the leaves. Looks like a plant pest on normal garden plants - if you know what I mean. What are those?
Just to inform you, I love bottom feeders especially cory catfish. I have three different types - peppered, emerald and albino. They do school most of the time.
I also have two different types of khuli loaches - black and stripped. I also have 4 ghost shrimps.
5. Based on my profile, will it be bad to add 1 or 2 corries?
By the way, after the last infestation, we decided to buy a quarantine tank and quarantine the cory cat, khuli loach, guppy and zebra danio we bought last week - these areincluded to the list I have except the cory. The cory died by the way. When I woke up this morning, the cory was not in the tank anymore. it might have jump out of the aquarium due to stress of loneliness. The QT is beside the 20 gallon so the cory can see the other fishes and the other cories. Its been a week since we bougt them. It was swimming back and fort last night. I never thought that it would be its last moment. I just added the remaining ones to the 20 gallon today. The QT is a 10 gallon with internal filter and a thermo. No heater yet due to summer high temps here. It still running now without fish. I just hope that the fishes I added to my 20 gallons don't have any illness whatsoever.
Thank you very much in advance for any advise you can give. I want to solve any possible problem by this week. You see, I am a very busy student - will be taking a 4-week math class this summer. This will be insane for sure. And I'll have less time on normal semester - but will have enough time to do maintenance though.
I'm a new owner of a freshwater aquarium. Most of the basic info about my tank is on my profile. I have lots of problems right now in my tank and I need professional and advance advices from you.
This will be long. Please bear with me.
I had a 10 gallon before. Had an ich infestation (an injured fish started - that fish died along with my pregnant fish - both of them are mollies). On this case, I used medication but didnt work. Other fishes survived including the scaleless. I decided to upgrade to 20 gallons because I believe I have over stocked. So, I have same number and type of fishes including 3 mollies. Two of them were new. The next day after the purchase, the two new pregnant mollies had ich. I increased the temp to 85. It didn't work because those two died long with one molly that survived the first ich infestation in the 10 gallon. The remaining fishes I have are the ones listed in my profile. I'm currently observing for another possible infestation. In this case, no medication. I'm not a big fan of medication. I am a chemist major so I know these stuff in medications.
1. First question. How long should I observe my fishes just to be sure ich infestation won't occur again? It been two weeks since the last infestation.
2. Based on my profile, do you think I still have overstocked? I just went today in an aquatic shop for water test. They said that my nitrate and nitrite are high and advised to add more bacteria since the aquarium is new and since I just changed 25% water yesterday. They also mentioned that I have too much bottom feeders.
I added about 20 ml of bacteria supplement in my tank now.
Here's another problem. I bought the water wisteria and anacharis yesterday and decided to soaked them in water with bleach due to snail, parasite and ich anxiety. Now, my wisteria' leaves are kind of melted - some have holes and some lost there green part. The anacharis have the worst case. Majority of the leave turned transparent. I rise them many times after the bleach like 5-6 times and soaked them to decloronated water before introducing to my 20 gallon tank.
3. Will they survive? I immediately turned on the lights. I am planning to buy the API leaf zone hoping for my plants to regenerate or survive.
4. My water wisteria by the way have small white salt-like grain under some of the leaves. Looks like a plant pest on normal garden plants - if you know what I mean. What are those?
Just to inform you, I love bottom feeders especially cory catfish. I have three different types - peppered, emerald and albino. They do school most of the time.
I also have two different types of khuli loaches - black and stripped. I also have 4 ghost shrimps.
5. Based on my profile, will it be bad to add 1 or 2 corries?
By the way, after the last infestation, we decided to buy a quarantine tank and quarantine the cory cat, khuli loach, guppy and zebra danio we bought last week - these areincluded to the list I have except the cory. The cory died by the way. When I woke up this morning, the cory was not in the tank anymore. it might have jump out of the aquarium due to stress of loneliness. The QT is beside the 20 gallon so the cory can see the other fishes and the other cories. Its been a week since we bougt them. It was swimming back and fort last night. I never thought that it would be its last moment. I just added the remaining ones to the 20 gallon today. The QT is a 10 gallon with internal filter and a thermo. No heater yet due to summer high temps here. It still running now without fish. I just hope that the fishes I added to my 20 gallons don't have any illness whatsoever.
Thank you very much in advance for any advise you can give. I want to solve any possible problem by this week. You see, I am a very busy student - will be taking a 4-week math class this summer. This will be insane for sure. And I'll have less time on normal semester - but will have enough time to do maintenance though.