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He didnt survive the night. I will talk to the neighbor. I dont like killing creatures just to experiment. Thank you for your help. The only good thing is that my cherry shrimp were moved out of there. And now my husband can slowly work on turning it into a salt nano tank. ........which...

I will do the best I can to return it.   But there is no way I can get it where it came from.   So frustrated.  I know he meant well, but dang.

I live in SW Louisiana.  My neighbor is a shrimper.   He knows we have fish and love them, and truly thought he was doing us a favor.   He brought us a wild caught seahorse.   I have a 10 gallon that we quickly emptied of red cherry shrimp, and used the bucket of water he gave us.   We plan on...

So far so good.   Maybe they had something else?   Heaven only knows.   I will continue using the MelaFix as prescribed, though.   Just in case it is actually working.   I realize it is much more likely that whatever the illness was ran it's course, but I'm hopeful.  LOL   Totally unrelated...

I just bought platys yesterday.  I already had a single MickeyMouse (long story) and got 4 red wags and 3 blues.  I think one is already pregnant.  BUT the tank has a lot of tankmates.   I'm sure a few will survive in the staurogyne repens or the java moss. I love platys!!

The LFS I visited is 90 miles away.   The PetSmart here doesn't have antibiotics at all.   So, I'm crossing fingers and praying.   Not much else I can do.  I lost 3 cardinal tetras in 3 days, but didn't loose one yesterday and no one is showing signs of illness today.    Thank you for the help...

I had already started a thread for the columnaris.   I think it has stopped, with only 3 cardinals gone.  Still keeping a very close eye on my guys.  I am dosing with Melafix.  The guys in the other thread said it won't work, but the 4 guys in the LFS said it would.  Conflicting info...

I lost another one yesterday. And looks like a 4th is acting weird now. I went to the LFS and they sold me a bottle of Melafix (?) I think. It is in the other room. Smells like teatree oil almost. He said it would be gentler on my system than the antibiotics. I hope they are correct...

The 125G holds water!!    But the pump is burned up.  We have bought 50lbs of play sand and 50lbs of pea gravel, washed the snot out of it, and laid it in the tank.  So far, the only local pump we found is $200.  I'm hoping we can find one cheaper online.  We can afford to be patient.  In the...

I have a second one now.    His white patch is closer to the end of the tail.   Once again, no growth, no fuzzy patch.    Just a weird patch with no color on it.   This fish isn't acting sick yet, but since his color is off, I moved him.    And Wilder, room temperature is 78 in this house.  ...

These are pics I took after the fish died.  I'm wondering if I have to treat the whole tank or not. No fuzzy, just lack of color.  Water parameters are normal.  0 Nitrate, 0 Nitrite,  0.25 Ammonia (same as my tap water per API test)  We plan on moveing all fish to the new 125 as earl as tomorrow...

Here is the filter.  Any ideas??   I think I can probably stick the current media inside it.