Abbitha
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- Dec 2, 2013
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This seriously happened over night. Got a new plant. 3 days later fish showed signs of ich. Tested water to see why they are stressed and it read 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and 10 nitrate. Temp is 78. Did a 50% water change and went to store to get meds. Dosed with meds yesterday. Today I turned on light to see the fish gasping for air and what appears to be slime EVERYWHERE and I mean everywhere. It's so thick my filter has quit running and the air stone struggles to get bubbles out so the water flow completely stopped on top of all of this. It's on the walls the plants the water. The fish don't have it on them though. And the white spots have reduced. I quickly grabbed a bucket and put paper towels in a strainer to filter some water into bucket without the slime. And caught all of my fish. They are already acting better since they can breathe but I'm stuck on what to do next. I can't put them in there and I'd hate to start from scratch as it will recycle my tank and I have neons and an angelfish and some otos I'm afraid won't make the cycle. I also have a bunch of plants in there but they are covered in the slime as well. I just don't know what to do. I'm so bummed about this. I also realized that I forgot to turn off the uv sterilizer with the meds and I hope this didn't somehow alter the meds to cause a crazy bloom in some way. How do I post pictures?