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Hello everyone.
Late last night I discovered all my fish in my community tank have become very sick. I have read the pinned post and I'll try to answer all the questions.
It is a 10 gallon tank with:
2 Black skirt tetras
2 Neon tetras
2 Red Wag platys.
It was a kit tank from Petsmart so it's all stock equipment (filter and heater) from TopFin and I added an air stone soon after setting the tank up. The tank has been running almost 6 months.
As of last week I didn't have the platys. I just got them on Saturday the 9th. That following wensday one of the platys died unexpectedly. I tested my water. (Readings were great) but I did a water change anyway, about 30%.
After being out all weekend I noticed at about 1am last night all 5 fish had signs of ich! The Black skirts fins are falling off and are covered in white spots, and the 2 neons were dead at about 8am the next day. Found them stuck to the intake.
The platy looks ok, but isn't swimming much. The black skirts are swimming but very slowly or just hovering in the middle of the tank.
I haven't change diet or water conditions prior to this. It seems it's all gone downhill since I introduced the platys. I'm beginning to wonder if they were sick from the store and infected my tank!
The platys were introduced to the tank by floating the bag and adding tank water and ridding the store water. I never add store water to my tanks.
I had to leave for work but I feel nature will take over soon and send the rest off to a better place. Although I don't want them to suffer.
And ideas on what can be done?
Thanks in advance
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Late last night I discovered all my fish in my community tank have become very sick. I have read the pinned post and I'll try to answer all the questions.
It is a 10 gallon tank with:
2 Black skirt tetras
2 Neon tetras
2 Red Wag platys.
It was a kit tank from Petsmart so it's all stock equipment (filter and heater) from TopFin and I added an air stone soon after setting the tank up. The tank has been running almost 6 months.
As of last week I didn't have the platys. I just got them on Saturday the 9th. That following wensday one of the platys died unexpectedly. I tested my water. (Readings were great) but I did a water change anyway, about 30%.
After being out all weekend I noticed at about 1am last night all 5 fish had signs of ich! The Black skirts fins are falling off and are covered in white spots, and the 2 neons were dead at about 8am the next day. Found them stuck to the intake.
The platy looks ok, but isn't swimming much. The black skirts are swimming but very slowly or just hovering in the middle of the tank.
I haven't change diet or water conditions prior to this. It seems it's all gone downhill since I introduced the platys. I'm beginning to wonder if they were sick from the store and infected my tank!
The platys were introduced to the tank by floating the bag and adding tank water and ridding the store water. I never add store water to my tanks.
I had to leave for work but I feel nature will take over soon and send the rest off to a better place. Although I don't want them to suffer.
And ideas on what can be done?
Thanks in advance
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