cjpf
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello everyone. I am new to the whole fish world. I have a planted 55G tank with a rainbow shark, 5 tiger barbs, some danios, 2 gouramies, 4 swordtails. About 2 weeks ago I noticed two of the fish had ich. I treated them with ich attack, and its gone away. However, now I noticed that the female swordtail has some white spots, and a male swordtail has bad fin rot. Is it normal for them to get different diseases right after another one? I have been putting Melafix and pimafix for 3 days now. I also performed a 25% water change before starting the new treatment, I have had the water tested at a pet store and they said the levels were fine (nitrates slightly high, but did the 25% water change like i said). SInce the Ich I have kept the water temperature at around 84. I feel so bad for the swordtail, he looks miserable! Is there anything i can do? am i doing something wrong? or do you think the current treatment should be fine? I should probably also say that I bought a Chinese Algae Eater, BUT he disappeared. I haven't seen him since I put him in the tank (about 2 days before Ich appeared). Not even during the water changes I have been able to spot him.