Recent content by jeanne-marie

Hi, no none of the above. Just literally looks like vaseline. With the others it worked it's way up the body and over the other fins until they lay on the bottom and it eventually covered their gills. I had to euthanise the last two come the end. I have 2 test kits - Interpet and NutriFin...

Hi I really hope someone can help. I have lost 3 mollies in my Q tank. Same symptoms, starts with what looks like a coating of vaseline that starts at the end of the tail and works it way up the body. This has happened in the same tank over three different populations. No other tank mates...

Thanks, yes you're right about maracyn, I've only been able to source it online and no LFS near me sell solely gram-negative bacteria treatment just broad range. The baby clown passed this afternoon. So that's both my babies gone now. This bigger chap is still fighting but I think it's just...

Hello! Finished a course of Sterazin and the Protozin. Had to go away for a week so left my partner with instructions to do 2 x WC while I was away. Got home and the Clown loach is still fighting. He's still struggling with gills, hanging vertical right at the very top of the tank, his mouth...

OK thanks, I had been worried that it was water quality /some kind of irritant and I was just chucking meds at it, increasing the problem for the poor little lad! I will order the wormer plus, do a water change and keep treating for flukes (replacing meds as appropriate to water removed). In 7...

OK thanks, so I can use wormer plus and anti-internal together? I've got the anti internal by interpet. Should I finish the flukes course first? It runs for another 7 days? I'm pretty sure something has got in to irritate them. I have three other tanks and have not have one death or had to...

I treated the tank first for flukes when the baby started to struggle. He responded to treatment but the flicking started. I think it might have be a reaction to the first wave of meds as opposed to ICH. Like I said before, I've yet to find a post where the clown makes it :sad I'm treating...

Thank you for your help! My first suspicion was whitespot and that it had got into his gills. The flashing and flicking of tank mates prior to treatment seems to indicate some kind of irritant had made it's way into the tank. I have completed the whitespot treatment, the flashing has stopped...

Thanks for the response. The tank is very well established and the meds used are designed for loaches so I've not had to half dose as I would with other treatments. I already double dose water with declorinator as our Water Board seem to add loads of chemicals at the weekend for some reason...

I seem to be killing my clowns! I lost a baby clown about a month ago. The only symptom is rapid gill movements and swimming vertically and stationary. I put him into a Q tank and treated for all gill problems I could think of but had to put him down - that broke my heart. Since then my...

I will try the torch trick later, gotta get some batteries! I've just done a 20% WC and added carbon to the filter to clear the Ich meds. They don't look any worse today. I'm going to give it another 24hours and if they look any worse I will put them in the hospital tank with ESHA 2000. I'm...

I will take some pics and upload them soon. I had no idea until I got them home how beautiful they were. Especially the "male" when he's showing off to his reflection. I would recommend my LFS as they have 2 left but it's quite a long way to come for a couple of £5 fish!! On the downside...

What other fish do you have in your main tank? What type of fry? How large / old are they?

Hello all! I've just become the proud owner of two smiling acaras. I asked for a male and a female but they were so young it was difficult to tell with any real confidence! One of them changes colour quite regularly from white to grey and has slightly pointier fins than the other. It was...

Good morning! It's a 50G tank. No signs of flicking or rubbing. The patch looks white on the albino chocolate molly and yellow on the sunset platy but it's not at all fluffy, it just looks like the white/yellow skin beneath the scales that have come off. They don't look any worse today...