aquanewbie72
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OK most importantly - I am begging all you experts to be patient with me and be nice. I know I've probably done some things wrong - but obviously I want to fix it or I wouldn't be here.... so here it goes:
We set up a 26-gallon aquarium 2 weeks ago with 2 red guramis, a cory catfish, a german ram, 2 calico moonfish, and a dozen neon tetras. There are no real plants. The bottom is small stones we got at Petco from the aquarium section.
Slowly, we lost a neon or 2 over the first week. We figured it was "new tank" syndrome. When our neons got low, we added 6 GloFish tetras. The water got sort of cloudy, I did my research, figured it was "new tank bacteria bloom" and just kept testing the water and figured it would all get better.
Suddenly last week, our Ram had what looked like ICK. The very next day, I bought Tetra’s Super Ick Cure. We have been following the directions- bumped the temperature up to 80, removed the carbon filtration, treated the tank with the med, waited 48 hours, treated again. Tonight is the night we're supposed to be doing a 25% water change and putting the filtration back on. But since Friday, 6 more fish have died (including the Ram who was the first to show symptoms).
The Ram died on Saturday - and OK - I know this was very poor judgement but I ran to the fish store and replaced him on Sunday. This morning (Tuesday), the new Ram was DEAD (after 3 days) along with another GloFish.
Everybody who is still alive (the guramis, the cat, the moonfish, and a 4 neon tetras and 3 GloFish tetras) has the white crystals on them. The water is cloudy- but I test it every morning for everything and it always passes with flying colors. I'm sorry I don't have exact numbers but I do those test strips that test for 5 things at once, and everything was in the "ideal" range this morning. THe only thing that looked off was the pH was a tick low.
The fish are still eating and swimming around. They eat good ole' Tetra flakes.
Any suggestions? Should we go through another cycle of medication or maybe is it not ICK? Could this be a different disease?
Please help me stop the DEATH! *snif*
~Michelle
We set up a 26-gallon aquarium 2 weeks ago with 2 red guramis, a cory catfish, a german ram, 2 calico moonfish, and a dozen neon tetras. There are no real plants. The bottom is small stones we got at Petco from the aquarium section.
Slowly, we lost a neon or 2 over the first week. We figured it was "new tank" syndrome. When our neons got low, we added 6 GloFish tetras. The water got sort of cloudy, I did my research, figured it was "new tank bacteria bloom" and just kept testing the water and figured it would all get better.
Suddenly last week, our Ram had what looked like ICK. The very next day, I bought Tetra’s Super Ick Cure. We have been following the directions- bumped the temperature up to 80, removed the carbon filtration, treated the tank with the med, waited 48 hours, treated again. Tonight is the night we're supposed to be doing a 25% water change and putting the filtration back on. But since Friday, 6 more fish have died (including the Ram who was the first to show symptoms).
The Ram died on Saturday - and OK - I know this was very poor judgement but I ran to the fish store and replaced him on Sunday. This morning (Tuesday), the new Ram was DEAD (after 3 days) along with another GloFish.
Everybody who is still alive (the guramis, the cat, the moonfish, and a 4 neon tetras and 3 GloFish tetras) has the white crystals on them. The water is cloudy- but I test it every morning for everything and it always passes with flying colors. I'm sorry I don't have exact numbers but I do those test strips that test for 5 things at once, and everything was in the "ideal" range this morning. THe only thing that looked off was the pH was a tick low.
The fish are still eating and swimming around. They eat good ole' Tetra flakes.
Any suggestions? Should we go through another cycle of medication or maybe is it not ICK? Could this be a different disease?
Please help me stop the DEATH! *snif*
~Michelle