OkiTank
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have 3 lampeye tetras with what I think is ich. I had five and two died within a few days of bringing them home from the pet store. All of them were covered with spots when I brought them home about 2 weeks ago. I was looking at all of the fish, my wife tried to get me to leave in a hurry and I just told the guy to wrap them up without inspecting them too well. I know, my bad. Lesson learned unfortunately the hard way. Please save me the insult to injury. I won't make this mistake again.
Anyway, they are lasting longer than I thought. My first thought was that I would just let them die off and then wait a month before adding anything new to the tank after the last one goes. If they do end up dying this is the safe thing to do right?
The thing is though that I have them in the tank with a bunch of red cherry shrimp. I don't really want to use chemical treatments if I can help it. If they end up clearing up how long until I know that it is safe to add more fish?
Currently everything is in a 10 gal tank with a cheap corner bubble filter. I don't have much filtration because again it was only 5 baby tetras (shorter than 1 inch) and the shrimp most of which are still babies. I figured low bioload. I do have some random live plants in there as well and some snails. Change water about once a week approx 30%.
Thanks all for any advice or input you have.
Anyway, they are lasting longer than I thought. My first thought was that I would just let them die off and then wait a month before adding anything new to the tank after the last one goes. If they do end up dying this is the safe thing to do right?
The thing is though that I have them in the tank with a bunch of red cherry shrimp. I don't really want to use chemical treatments if I can help it. If they end up clearing up how long until I know that it is safe to add more fish?
Currently everything is in a 10 gal tank with a cheap corner bubble filter. I don't have much filtration because again it was only 5 baby tetras (shorter than 1 inch) and the shrimp most of which are still babies. I figured low bioload. I do have some random live plants in there as well and some snails. Change water about once a week approx 30%.
Thanks all for any advice or input you have.
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