SandyCheeks
Aquarium Advice Freak
Tank size 90 gal, 4 Orandas and 2 shibunkins Equipment: 306 Fluval canister, 406 Fluval canister, large HOB filter, large air bubblers, large lava rocks. Annubias plants. ammonia 0. Nitrites 0, nitrates 20, ph 8.0, gh 3, kh 6, TDS 300-400.
Help please. I had 3 large orandas and a male and female shubunkin, ages 5 to 3. All were healthy, active, eating well, the orandas had huge wens. Yesterday morning I woke up to find 2 floating dead, 2 barely breathing. The largest male shubunkin and the smallest orandas are seemingly fine. It's truly sad to see such large beautiful fish that I've had for years floating dead. why they would all suddenly die with no signs of anything being wrong?
No changes to food, no new medication, no new fish added. I was out of prime, so used Tetra Aquasafe declorinator during the weekly water change on Sunday. New additions to the tank were a large fake rock decoration and an underwater blue light string attached to a bendable air bubbler. The 30 gal tropical tank next to this tank received 4 new apple snails and a baby albino pleco 3 weeks ago. We don't share any of the tools between tanks, but we do share the siphon used to clean the tanks.
After removing the dead fish, the ammonia was .25 and the nitrate was 1.0 and the nitrate was 20. However I believe this spike could have been from two large dead fish floating in the tank all night. I'm just saying this because the tank has been cycled since it was set up five years ago. Out of my 7 tanks, t his Tank is always so dependable, it maintains through ph changes, it even stayed cycled when I accidentally left the canisters off for a week while on vacation last year, I believe the large lava rocks had something to do with it. I just tested the water now and ammonia is zero, nitrites zero, and nitrates are 20. Ph is 8, gh is 4, kh is 9. TDS is 398.
I was so excited because the male shibunkin has finally got breeding stars and the female looks like she is full of eggs, so we are setting up a pond outside for them. The smaller oranda I rescued a couple years ago from the pet store, he was starving and had severe fin rot and I nursed him back to health.
The sick fish that died had red streaks in their tails and seemed to be hemorrhaging There was blood in the water after they had died. Yesterday I researched online and found a parasite called costia that kills quickly and causes hemorrhages so I used Quickcure in the hospital water. A couple of hours later, they were swimming around, so I was hopeful. But when I got up in the middle of the night to check on them, they were floating again so I drained most of the water added fresh water and added some aquarium salt. Then this morning two more were dead in the hospital tank. Please help me save my female shubunkin. She is floating on the top barely able to swim. I do now see a spider like hemorrhage on each side. But her tail is not streaked. I have been doing at least 4 water changes every day. But I don't don't know at this point what else to do for her. If I should add salt and what kind of salt? If I should try to get her to eat some antibiotics?
Thank you in advance for any thing you can do to help. Her mate in the tank seems very depressed, he is looking for her and can't find her. It's so odd that the largest and the smallest fish seem ok but all of the medium-sized fish were affected.
I have removed the decoration and I have removed the underwater light. Is it possible that one of these, or using aquasafe instead of Prime, could have caused it? I am at a loss and feeling helpless and guilty and sad.
Help please. I had 3 large orandas and a male and female shubunkin, ages 5 to 3. All were healthy, active, eating well, the orandas had huge wens. Yesterday morning I woke up to find 2 floating dead, 2 barely breathing. The largest male shubunkin and the smallest orandas are seemingly fine. It's truly sad to see such large beautiful fish that I've had for years floating dead. why they would all suddenly die with no signs of anything being wrong?
No changes to food, no new medication, no new fish added. I was out of prime, so used Tetra Aquasafe declorinator during the weekly water change on Sunday. New additions to the tank were a large fake rock decoration and an underwater blue light string attached to a bendable air bubbler. The 30 gal tropical tank next to this tank received 4 new apple snails and a baby albino pleco 3 weeks ago. We don't share any of the tools between tanks, but we do share the siphon used to clean the tanks.
After removing the dead fish, the ammonia was .25 and the nitrate was 1.0 and the nitrate was 20. However I believe this spike could have been from two large dead fish floating in the tank all night. I'm just saying this because the tank has been cycled since it was set up five years ago. Out of my 7 tanks, t his Tank is always so dependable, it maintains through ph changes, it even stayed cycled when I accidentally left the canisters off for a week while on vacation last year, I believe the large lava rocks had something to do with it. I just tested the water now and ammonia is zero, nitrites zero, and nitrates are 20. Ph is 8, gh is 4, kh is 9. TDS is 398.
I was so excited because the male shibunkin has finally got breeding stars and the female looks like she is full of eggs, so we are setting up a pond outside for them. The smaller oranda I rescued a couple years ago from the pet store, he was starving and had severe fin rot and I nursed him back to health.
The sick fish that died had red streaks in their tails and seemed to be hemorrhaging There was blood in the water after they had died. Yesterday I researched online and found a parasite called costia that kills quickly and causes hemorrhages so I used Quickcure in the hospital water. A couple of hours later, they were swimming around, so I was hopeful. But when I got up in the middle of the night to check on them, they were floating again so I drained most of the water added fresh water and added some aquarium salt. Then this morning two more were dead in the hospital tank. Please help me save my female shubunkin. She is floating on the top barely able to swim. I do now see a spider like hemorrhage on each side. But her tail is not streaked. I have been doing at least 4 water changes every day. But I don't don't know at this point what else to do for her. If I should add salt and what kind of salt? If I should try to get her to eat some antibiotics?
Thank you in advance for any thing you can do to help. Her mate in the tank seems very depressed, he is looking for her and can't find her. It's so odd that the largest and the smallest fish seem ok but all of the medium-sized fish were affected.
I have removed the decoration and I have removed the underwater light. Is it possible that one of these, or using aquasafe instead of Prime, could have caused it? I am at a loss and feeling helpless and guilty and sad.
