Roo
Aquarium Advice Newbie
As mentioned above, my assassin snails are dying off. I found an empty shell and dead one yesterday. I confirmed 3 were still alive. This morning another one had died so I believe the other 2 are still living (havent found them yet).
They are not old. I have taken over my tank in January and they were placed in the tank after the plants and fish have established. They lived there happily feasting on some pest ramshorns. They were intially brought in to control the population.
My question is whether my treatment for ich could still have killed these guys? I used Nox Ich but had removed the Assassins and Amanos to a quarantine tank for the duration of the treatment.
The treatment consisted of 2 rounds of Nox Ich, so about a week of active tx. I had tried to raise the temperature but I only have a partial lid with 200watt heater (my spare was in the QT). During treatment, I was changing 20% water every day because I was gravel vaccing. After treatment, I ran fresh charcoal in the filter and dropped to weekly water changes for 2 weeks before readding the inverts.
I had been testing water weekly to see when I need to do water changes. Currently the readings for ammonia, nitrates and nitrates are at 0 and have held there for the past month so I was going to do a water change tomorrow.
Is there anything I am missing? I liked those murderous guys...and would be interested in getting new ones but I don't want to kill the noobs too! Fish and Amanos are happy and healthy.
They are not old. I have taken over my tank in January and they were placed in the tank after the plants and fish have established. They lived there happily feasting on some pest ramshorns. They were intially brought in to control the population.
My question is whether my treatment for ich could still have killed these guys? I used Nox Ich but had removed the Assassins and Amanos to a quarantine tank for the duration of the treatment.
The treatment consisted of 2 rounds of Nox Ich, so about a week of active tx. I had tried to raise the temperature but I only have a partial lid with 200watt heater (my spare was in the QT). During treatment, I was changing 20% water every day because I was gravel vaccing. After treatment, I ran fresh charcoal in the filter and dropped to weekly water changes for 2 weeks before readding the inverts.
I had been testing water weekly to see when I need to do water changes. Currently the readings for ammonia, nitrates and nitrates are at 0 and have held there for the past month so I was going to do a water change tomorrow.
Is there anything I am missing? I liked those murderous guys...and would be interested in getting new ones but I don't want to kill the noobs too! Fish and Amanos are happy and healthy.
