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Ok thanks, will do.

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By the way I just noticed my rainbows mouth was a little strange is this a fungus or something or am I just paranoid?
 
Whenever a member has two active threads on the same aquarium, even though the initial questions might be two different issues, there is bound to be overlap. That is occurring here.

As Colin correctly and wisely advised, don't even consider more fish until the problems are definitely resolved. But once they are, there are fish in this tank that cannot remain there (if they survive through this). Denison barbs are not suited to this small (to them) a tank, and it was mentioned getting more a couple of posts previous to this one. Please don't. There is more in the other thread on the fish stocking.
 
The mouth on the boesemani rainbowfish is probably bruising/ physical damaged caused by swimming into the glass. This happens to new rainbowfish all the time. As long as the water is clean it will heal up in a couple of weeks.

If you want to add anything, add salt but avoid chemical medications.
You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), sea salt or swimming pool salt to the aquarium at the dose rate of 1 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres of water. If there is no improvement after 48 hours you can double that dose rate so there is 2 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

If you only have livebearers (guppies, platies, swordtails, mollies), goldfish or rainbowfish in the tank you can double that dose rate, so you would add 2 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres and if there is no improvement after 48 hours, then increase it so there is a total of 4 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

Keep the salt level like this for at least 2 weeks but no longer than 4 weeks otherwise kidney damage can occur. Kidney damage is more likely to occur in fish from soft water (tetras, Corydoras, angelfish, gouramis, loaches) that are exposed to high levels of salt for an extended period of time, and is not an issue with livebearers, rainbowfish or other salt tolerant species.

The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria but the higher dose rate will affect some plants. The lower dose rate will not affect plants.

After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that.
 

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