Kwakatoo
Aquarium Advice Freak
In the thread stickies you ask for details.. Here goes
I have 2 female guppies (likely pregnant), 1 male guppy and two male endlers. A 30lt tank (8g)
Prior to the guppies being put in this tank, I had sick fish. I took them to the shop and they couldn't see anything clear. Assumption made it was fun rot, as whitish substance and clamped fins. So treated for fin Roy - all fish in tank died - I had them for 4 days. And no water quality issues. The day before I noticed illness, I measured ph 7.0, ammonia 0.0, nitrite 0.0, nitrate 0.5-0.9. All fish died in that tank. So I cleaned it thoroughly (I thought) with vinegar solution.
I cycled the tank a few weeks before I put guppies in from another tank in the house - much longer establish tank, no issues.
I was still cycling the tank when I added the 2 female pregnant guppies as they had been harassed by males. This was 25 June - by the 15/7 the cycle was looking good and tested Ammonia: 0.1, Nitrite: 0.0, Nitrate 5 daily. The females had fry and the males and females put in the tank - fry removed.
24/7 I gave the filter a slight clean by shaking debris out in siphoned tank water. Returned it to tank. Nitrates slightly elevated at 20, so did 40% water change. Noticed one female flashing against filter..
25/7 decide the white tackiness on fins was not fin rot - as I felt had been incorrectly diagnosed before, but velvet. So dose tank up to 1.5 - 2 tablespoons salt (Rock, non iodized) per gallon over next day. Increase temp from 25 to 30C (86F) degrees.
27/7 remove carbon from small in tank filter. Protozin from Waterlife meds administered in half doses 2ce a day. Fish obviously stressed
28/7 check water parameters shocked to see very high nitrite at 1.0(?)and ammonia at 0.5, nitrate ok at 5.0. So water change at 20%
29/7 20% pwc - replace salt % and protozin in water removed every pwc
30/7 50% pwc. Plus dose protozin on day 4 - mistake means I've overdosed.
31/7 50% pwc - only replace salt removed
1/8 50% pwc - do not replace salt... Because..
Females very bloated!
Is this salt now or internal parasites?
The females have also shown white stringy poo shoot while bloated. The orange female seems s but better than yesterday, but the female pictured has scales starting to flex out.
Best guess... Overdosed protozin and their pregnant bellies are producing lots of gas because of dead fry? Or more prone to toxicity if meds as I went too far in dosing. Or salt has finally affected them.. Or internal paradise???
Ideas ?? I'm feeling like a hopeless fish keeper..
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--
Yes - plants from a small local supplier. Both times fish got sick. Plants from same tank each time (no I will not buy from there again)
9~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently?
Flakes mostly, and frozen shrimp brine. The shrimp brine was a new food while the females were pregnant. Seems ok.
I have 2 female guppies (likely pregnant), 1 male guppy and two male endlers. A 30lt tank (8g)
Prior to the guppies being put in this tank, I had sick fish. I took them to the shop and they couldn't see anything clear. Assumption made it was fun rot, as whitish substance and clamped fins. So treated for fin Roy - all fish in tank died - I had them for 4 days. And no water quality issues. The day before I noticed illness, I measured ph 7.0, ammonia 0.0, nitrite 0.0, nitrate 0.5-0.9. All fish died in that tank. So I cleaned it thoroughly (I thought) with vinegar solution.
I cycled the tank a few weeks before I put guppies in from another tank in the house - much longer establish tank, no issues.
I was still cycling the tank when I added the 2 female pregnant guppies as they had been harassed by males. This was 25 June - by the 15/7 the cycle was looking good and tested Ammonia: 0.1, Nitrite: 0.0, Nitrate 5 daily. The females had fry and the males and females put in the tank - fry removed.
24/7 I gave the filter a slight clean by shaking debris out in siphoned tank water. Returned it to tank. Nitrates slightly elevated at 20, so did 40% water change. Noticed one female flashing against filter..
25/7 decide the white tackiness on fins was not fin rot - as I felt had been incorrectly diagnosed before, but velvet. So dose tank up to 1.5 - 2 tablespoons salt (Rock, non iodized) per gallon over next day. Increase temp from 25 to 30C (86F) degrees.
27/7 remove carbon from small in tank filter. Protozin from Waterlife meds administered in half doses 2ce a day. Fish obviously stressed
28/7 check water parameters shocked to see very high nitrite at 1.0(?)and ammonia at 0.5, nitrate ok at 5.0. So water change at 20%
29/7 20% pwc - replace salt % and protozin in water removed every pwc
30/7 50% pwc. Plus dose protozin on day 4 - mistake means I've overdosed.
31/7 50% pwc - only replace salt removed
1/8 50% pwc - do not replace salt... Because..
Females very bloated!
Is this salt now or internal parasites?
The females have also shown white stringy poo shoot while bloated. The orange female seems s but better than yesterday, but the female pictured has scales starting to flex out.
Best guess... Overdosed protozin and their pregnant bellies are producing lots of gas because of dead fry? Or more prone to toxicity if meds as I went too far in dosing. Or salt has finally affected them.. Or internal paradise???
Ideas ?? I'm feeling like a hopeless fish keeper..
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--
Yes - plants from a small local supplier. Both times fish got sick. Plants from same tank each time (no I will not buy from there again)
9~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently?
Flakes mostly, and frozen shrimp brine. The shrimp brine was a new food while the females were pregnant. Seems ok.