JamieBailie
Fish Crazy
Hello,
My 28 gal tank developed white spot last week, The only fish I had up untill this morning was 1 female adult Molly and 14ish fry. From what I could see only the adult Molly had whitespot, Her fry seem fine, Alough they are in a breeding net so maybe that helped. I was on my 5th day of treating the whitespot, The adult Molly died this morning.. I tested the water and the he Nitrite colour was darker than my testers highest value! Nitrate was also kinda high, 0 ammonia.
I had to leave for work at this point as I was already late.
When I got home I obviously had to change a substantial amount of water. I decided I would move the tank whilst I had the tank empty as it wasn't in a great spot. I filled a bucket with tank water and left the filter running in it:
I drained the tank:
I moved the tank, Refilled, Added the heater, Filter and the old water that was in with the filter, I thought it best to keep a few gallons at least.
I also added another filter, As My tank way too was under filtered before. It's now filtering 1100 litres per hour, Instead of 250ish.
So my questions:
1) There is only 14ish Molly fry, Which are in a breeding net in the tank, They are about 12mm long. I can't get anymore fish into the tank untill tomorrow about 6pm (The time now is 11pm)
Will the bacteria in my filter be ok untill I can get more fish?
2) Could my tank go into a mini cycle since I changed so much water?
3) Do I still need to worry about the whitespot since the only fish that seemed affected is now dead and i have changed 95% of the water, And should I keep using the treatment?
That's about all I can think of for now, Many thanks!
My 28 gal tank developed white spot last week, The only fish I had up untill this morning was 1 female adult Molly and 14ish fry. From what I could see only the adult Molly had whitespot, Her fry seem fine, Alough they are in a breeding net so maybe that helped. I was on my 5th day of treating the whitespot, The adult Molly died this morning.. I tested the water and the he Nitrite colour was darker than my testers highest value! Nitrate was also kinda high, 0 ammonia.
I had to leave for work at this point as I was already late.
When I got home I obviously had to change a substantial amount of water. I decided I would move the tank whilst I had the tank empty as it wasn't in a great spot. I filled a bucket with tank water and left the filter running in it:
I drained the tank:
I moved the tank, Refilled, Added the heater, Filter and the old water that was in with the filter, I thought it best to keep a few gallons at least.
I also added another filter, As My tank way too was under filtered before. It's now filtering 1100 litres per hour, Instead of 250ish.
So my questions:
1) There is only 14ish Molly fry, Which are in a breeding net in the tank, They are about 12mm long. I can't get anymore fish into the tank untill tomorrow about 6pm (The time now is 11pm)
Will the bacteria in my filter be ok untill I can get more fish?
2) Could my tank go into a mini cycle since I changed so much water?
3) Do I still need to worry about the whitespot since the only fish that seemed affected is now dead and i have changed 95% of the water, And should I keep using the treatment?
That's about all I can think of for now, Many thanks!
