JaniceS
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi everyone! Needing some advice. My daughter got a 100L tropical tank for Christmas from my parents. My dad had this tank up and running many years ago. We did an initial two week cycle with no fish, added some guppy’s, mollies etc. had some initial death, but 4 were fine.
About 2 months ago we added some more fish back in, and it seems that they had velvet. Tried treating for it, lost a few more fish, but the remainders seemed ok.
Have continued to slowly lose more fish. In the last two days we have lost two more fish, one guppy that suddenly had red spots on its tail then was dead the next day, and a bristle nose pleco that was a bit sluggish for a few days then died. It almost looked like it was rotted from the inside. Is that fin rot?
I’ve moved the two remaining fish (a guppy and a mollie) into a small hospital tank and am treating for fin rot.
I’m treating the original tank as having crashed, completely removed all the ornaments that were in it, gravel out, replacing sponges in filter etc. is there anything else I can be doing? I want to setup the tank properly for success this time.
We were doing regular (fortnightly) water changes, all water tests were coming in fine and within range, temp and ph were fine.
Thanks for reading and your advice!
About 2 months ago we added some more fish back in, and it seems that they had velvet. Tried treating for it, lost a few more fish, but the remainders seemed ok.
Have continued to slowly lose more fish. In the last two days we have lost two more fish, one guppy that suddenly had red spots on its tail then was dead the next day, and a bristle nose pleco that was a bit sluggish for a few days then died. It almost looked like it was rotted from the inside. Is that fin rot?
I’ve moved the two remaining fish (a guppy and a mollie) into a small hospital tank and am treating for fin rot.
I’m treating the original tank as having crashed, completely removed all the ornaments that were in it, gravel out, replacing sponges in filter etc. is there anything else I can be doing? I want to setup the tank properly for success this time.
We were doing regular (fortnightly) water changes, all water tests were coming in fine and within range, temp and ph were fine.
Thanks for reading and your advice!