Recent content by afremont

The fish should be fine. Most fish are omnivores so they don't just eat meat, some even need vegetable material in their diet or they will suffer greatly; there are even fish that are complete vegetarians as well. You should provide vegetable material for the fish anyway. Perhaps algae...

Did you measure your ammonia and nitrItes? Do you have a heater on it? You're going to have a maintenance nightmare, I think I'd just put all the fish back in the main tank. I would change 50% twice a day for a while and monitor the ammonia and nitrItes closely and use Prime as a...

This is too cold. He is a tropical fish and needs a heater. I keep my daughter's at 80F.

I don't think it's particularly effective against columnaris (often erroneously called mouth "fungus" even though it's bacterial). It's one of those general purpose type meds that can assist other medications safely and help ward off secondary fungal or bacterial infections. It used to be used...

That's exactly what you should do. You will find that there is a great deal of conflicting information available, but there is also plenty of actual scientific information (backed up by real observation) out there too to help sort it out. Several universities have made extensive amounts of...

Oh yeah, it's a real antibiotic when it comes to single celled creatures. Invertebrates don't do to well around it either, it will kill your snails.

It turns the water dark blue, like tidy bowl blue even at 3ppm. At 50ppm you don't want your fish getting out of the dip net or you will never see it even in a small container. You can hardly see thru a full size tank at 3ppm. That's sad about her experience because MB is a great med that has...

Why is that? MB is hard to overdose, but PP is very easy to overdose. MB is just a cellular stain so it presents little danger to complex vertebrates, PP is an oxidizer and it doesn't care what it destroys; germs, gills, entire fish, it just doesn't care. A little too much PP is like a little...

Maybe they were doing a dip at approx 50ppm, only 10 seconds is the limit. I've done that and the fish was fine afterwards. The problem with nitrIte poisoning is that the fish hangs on just like someone with cystic fibrosis. As long as the fish rests, it gets enough oxygen to survive. As...

Methylene Blue is basically harmless unless massively overdosed. Now potassium permanganate that's another story. You could keep fish in 3ppm of MB for a very long time.

No, salt doesn't fix it, acts as a blocker for the problem. Salt, when dissolved in water, splits into two ions, one being a chloride ion. The chloride ion competes with nitrites that are trying to get into the blood stream thru the gills. Nitrites that get in convert the hemoglobin to...

Swimming in a spiral like that makes that look neurological from what I've read. From the same reading, it could have started from gill infection from bad water or parasites that are gone now and then spread into the brain. If it was from an infection, he might have eye problems of some sort...

I don't think that's a danio of any type. Looks more like a lyretail balloon molly to me.

Yeah, it's hard I know. It's also hard watching one fish after another die while hopelessly guessing at the problem. It's so hard for me that I bought a microscope and have been able to positively identify two separate problems so far. In both cases, I had already treated the fish for that...

I don't know about using Prime to neutralize it, but peroxide will. I don't want to scare you completely off from ever using PP as it can be a miracle worker, but I can't emphasize enough how dangerous it can be too. I wouldn't expect salt to do a whole lot against true columnaris, but it...