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Caught it maybe 15 min after. Fish alive in bucket with clean water. Tank is wrecked. Besides 100% water and a scrub what should I do?

Tank update 8/29/13 - YouTube

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Watts per gallon is an outdated rule of thumb. I have nearly 4 watts per gallon on my tank but PAR rating is what matters. It's a measure of light intensity and various depths of water. Unfortunately you won't find any lights that use PAR is a rating. Two 96 watt quad T5H0 lights can have...

55 That's what I was leaning toward. Just picked up some Maracyn Two. About to start 5 days of treatment.

Got up to pee and decided to check on my fish. It seems things are getting worse and now it's spread to my black moor. Also, the fin rot/deterioration seems to be much worse now. BTW that's the oranda in the back of the 2nd pic. He's not swimming, just kinda sitting in the plant not...

Tank has been set up for nearly a year. Ammonia is 0.

Just checked parameter. Everything is good but pH. It's around 8.0. BR tap water is 8.2 so a water change won't help. I'm thinking of running some co2 into the tank to drop it. I don't know what else to do.

This is all he is doing. He just ate a few pellets but now he's only sitting on the bottom.

And it's spending a lot of time at the bottom of the tank. Almost like he's sleeping. Something is def wrong.

Petsmart here. The employees are nicer and more knowledgeable and they sell more live plants than Petco. Fish prices are cheaper but supplies seem to be about the same price. I only go to Petco to get background solution because Petsmart doesn't carry it.

20130731_184337.mp4 - YouTube At the end of the video I said tablespoon but meant teaspoons. As for how long the mixture will last, I expect it to be about 3 or 4 days. With my drop checker turning near yellow though I may back down to 1 teaspoon. It's what I had been using and it was...

Refilled DIY CO2 9/31/13 - YouTube Update vid uploading now. Here is the drop checker as of 5 min ago. I know it looks green but it's already gone from blue to dark green and is on it's way to yellow now.