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Update: It seems to have started to clear. The fish are not gasping, nothing else has died & the bristlenoses might have eaten the algae as the glass is now clear. I'll post before & after pics later tonight.

Head doesn't look right for a rat snake.

Triangular head isn't necessarily indicative of a viper, & the only vipers in the US are rattlesnakes, copperheads & moccasins, & it looks like none of those. Watersnakes also have triangular heads.

1. No, & no. It dissolves into dust when wiped off. 2. Once a week, 25%. 3. Yes, areas of the gravel not obstructed by plant growth. 4. Internal sponge filter. 5. Yes, it seems to work fine. 6. Once week with the water changes, using water from the tank. 7. Yes. 8. No, only me & only for the...

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Looks like a water snake.

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As I explained in my first post, none of the standard protozoan treatments work, I've tried them all. the parasite only succumbs to Sterazin at daily high doses. It then vanishes in 3-4 days.

Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, pH 7.5, don't know about nitrate. this is a long established planted set up several years old. Here are some pics from the last lethal infection from a few years ago that killed half of my fish after failed attempts at treatment with 3 different whitespot cures. Then I...

Can anyone advise how to treat so called 'super spot'? Looks like white spot but the spots are bigger & it's more rapidly lethal, killing in a matter of days & the spots link together into squarish patches before the fish dies. It isn't Ichthyopthirius, & doesn't respond to white spot...

Cured it now- fresh bottle of Sterazin at double dose, the stuff I'd been using didn't work as it was old & had gone stale.