Okay, I'm going to my dads this weekend, leaving in an hour and a half, nothing I can do about it. Wednesday I moved my one remaining panda cory from my 29g to 30g, because it was being outcompeted by my kuhlie loaches. It was doing okay, but I know it needed some buddies so I bought 3 more pandas from liveaquaria.com as well as 2 hatchetfish to make my total over $29.99. I already have 3 marbled hatchetfish in the 10g. The fish arrived today and were brought in immediately at about 1pm. I got home about 2:30pm and immediately acclimatised the fish to liveaquaria's standards, even though it was obvious that 2 of the panda cories were dead and the hatchetfish suffering. I released the one living panda cory and both hatchetfish and also there was a mountain minnow in the bag with the panda cories, it's doing good so far. The hatchets drifted to the bottom, both on their side, breathing heavily. The cory seemed fine. The MM was doing great. 10 minutes later I come back and now I notice the new panda has ich. The hatchetfish are the same, the MM better than ever. So I have a few problems now.
1. The temp is currently at 78, which is too warm for the MM. I also only have one, don't want more, and can't lower the temp without hurting the other fish.
2. The cory had ich and I have no place to put it with a heater. I have a 3g tank, a heater for a 30g tank, no filter, and no whitespot med. I can't raise the temp without killing at least the MM and new hatchets and I can't treat for ich with most things because I have shrimp.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
My best solution I can think of is this:
Get a big bag and put the infected cory in this and keep the bag in the tank w/ tank water so the temp stays at 78. Bring the MM to my dads and feed it to his catfish (at least it'll die painlessly) and hope the hatchets make it through.
Just some side info -
tank: 10g heavily planted, 4 amano shrimp, 4 cherry shrimp, 4 ghost shrimp, 3 old hatchets, 2 new dieing ones, 1 old panda, 1 new ich-infested one, 1 Mountain minnow
ammonia (before I added the fish) - 0
nitrite (before I added the fish) - 0
nitrates (Before I added the fish - 5
PH - 7.1
temp - 78
Please help!
1. The temp is currently at 78, which is too warm for the MM. I also only have one, don't want more, and can't lower the temp without hurting the other fish.
2. The cory had ich and I have no place to put it with a heater. I have a 3g tank, a heater for a 30g tank, no filter, and no whitespot med. I can't raise the temp without killing at least the MM and new hatchets and I can't treat for ich with most things because I have shrimp.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
My best solution I can think of is this:
Get a big bag and put the infected cory in this and keep the bag in the tank w/ tank water so the temp stays at 78. Bring the MM to my dads and feed it to his catfish (at least it'll die painlessly) and hope the hatchets make it through.
Just some side info -
tank: 10g heavily planted, 4 amano shrimp, 4 cherry shrimp, 4 ghost shrimp, 3 old hatchets, 2 new dieing ones, 1 old panda, 1 new ich-infested one, 1 Mountain minnow
ammonia (before I added the fish) - 0
nitrite (before I added the fish) - 0
nitrates (Before I added the fish - 5
PH - 7.1
temp - 78
Please help!
