Age Old Mistake.

[jonnyf84]

Wednesday Night: Well for the second time in my life i forgot to plug the heater back in after a water change. Now my community tank has been hit with a range of diseases.

Thursday: I woke up in the morning and realised what i had done, the temp had dropped by around 8F (from 80 to 72), i set the temp to raise by 3F whilst i was at work, when i got back i noticed some flicking, before i went to bed i set it to raise another 2F through the night.

Friday: In the morning even more flicking and my parrot fish was acting really wierd. When i got home pretty much all my fish were flicking but had no visable signs of disease, i decided to start treating with Myxazin, before i went to bed, i gave the first dose and raised the temp back up to 1F above its original 80F.

Saturday: No changes, 2nd dose.

Sunday: Seemed to be less flicking, Parrot fish still acting strange, 3rd dose.

Monday: Didnt notice any flicking at all, parrot fish acting more normal, 4th dose.

Tuesday: Platies and corys started to flick again, 1 platy has what looks like the start of cotton mouth, 5th dose.

Wednesday: Just checked this morning and the cotton mouth hasn't got any worse or better but my poor male betta has a infected eye, the lights were off so i couldn't get a great look, its either catarax or pop eye (its cloudy and pertruding a bit) - I'm really hopeing this isn't been caused by TB (worrying note: Since this outbreak i have had a itchy eye and it feels like there is constantly something stuck in the side of it ).


Now i know pop eye and catarax are very hard to treat and TB is only treatable by injection (which means i would have to put him down), Myxazin clearly isn't doing much. Any Ideas???

Could this all be caused by the stress of a sudden temp drop? 4 days before my mistake i bought a pair of juvenile Blue Rams, the only other possibility is they are carrying some diseases - if so they are immune because they are thriving at the moment.

Temp: 81F
PH: Steady at 7.3
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: <0.3 - (probably 0 but impossible to tell with my test kit)
Nitrate: 20

24 hour aeiration

Feeding: mixed diet of. Tetra Min, Tetra Crisps, Tetra pro (red, green and yellow), Algae wafers, sinking pellets, frozen bloodworms, daphnia and tubilflex, greens (peas, lettuce, cucumber and courgette) and live daphnia. I feed twice a day and I never feed more than they can eat in a few minutes.

NB# I won't be able to get pics of the Betta until i get home (7pm-ish)


Any help and opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Jonny.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

if there is nitrite then this will be stopping fish from healing properly.

i wouldn't expect a drop in temp would cause all thos problems straight off unless there was some underlying prolem in the tank.

However I suspect that you have 0 nitrite, rams are especially sensitive to ammonia and nitrite and will just keel over at the slightest hint of it so if they're thriving then i'd say it's relativley safe to assume it's 0.

 

[jonnyf84]

Hya miss W, agreed. I just dont know what the problem is. My community tank has been the picture of health since it was established and now this. Baffled. Water conditions are anything but poor so how could they have cotton mouth and pop eye! What do you think treatment wise?

 

[WILDER]

When temp drops fast they can soon come down with whitespot, columnaris and swim bladder.
Anti internal bacteria med by interpet and pimafix.

 

[Behold]

My water changes drop the temp more than that sometimes and has never caused me an issue.

 

[jonnyf84]

Anti internal bacteria med by interpet and pimafix.

Hi Wilder, do you mean mix them or either one?

I presume i should do a large water change and run carbon for 24 hours to get rid of the Myxazin before adding a new med?

 

[WILDER]

If they don't have parasties yes run some black carbon and water change.
Yes you can mix pimafix with bacterial med.
Good luck.

Or just the pimafix with the myxazin.
If no improvement you will have to change from myxazin to anti internal bacteria med by interpet.

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[jonnyf84]

Thanks wilder.

I have been treating with myxazin for 5 days now and it has got much worse so i will get both interpet and primafix, do a water change and run carbon tonight and start with new meds tomorrow.

 

[WILDER]

Good luck.