A couple of months ago i had an outbreak of skin slime disease and treated with Protozin.2 male guppies and 2 females died but the rest of the fish seemed ok. I have been doing the usual tank maintinance and other than my nitrates staying a little high 40-80 everthing seemed ok. 2 weeks later i lost another female guppy but couldnt see why,so i dosed again. I thought even if its not down to the same problem it couldnt hurt. 6 days later, after finishing the course, everthing seemed fine and i replaced the dead fish and all seemed ok till 4 days ago when i noticed a white lip on my new male guppy and a white spot on one of my neon tetras back.I spoke to my fish shop supplier and bought a more indepth water test kit and some more Protozin. The reading were as follows Nitrate 50-60, Ammonia 0.1, PH broad range 7.0-8.0, Nitrite 0.1. Today i lost the guppy. Please can you help with any suggestions and anything you can recommend i try?
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Your tanks slightly on the overstocked size.
What filter are you using.
The white mouth sounds like columnaris.
Does the lip look bleached out, any fluffy cotton wool on the mouth, or strands of cotton coming from the mouth area.
How big is the spots on the cory. Is it bigger than a grain of salt.
Any redness to the spot.
What filter are you using.
The white mouth sounds like columnaris.
Does the lip look bleached out, any fluffy cotton wool on the mouth, or strands of cotton coming from the mouth area.
How big is the spots on the cory. Is it bigger than a grain of salt.
Any redness to the spot.
Your tanks slightly on the overstocked size. As of today
25/10/10 Jewel Korall 60 tank. 3 neon tetras. 3 peppered corys. 2 red eye tetras. 2 xray tetras. 3 female guppies. 1 male guppies 3 ender guppies.
What filter are you using. I have an internal Bioflow mini,with an extra nitrax sponge filter in it to help with the nitrates.
Does the lip look bleached out, any fluffy cotton wool on the mouth, or strands of cotton coming from the mouth area. No strands or fluffy cotton wool but the lip looked bleached and slightly puffy (guppy died last night)
How big is the spots on the cory. Is it bigger than a grain of salt.Any redness to the spot. Its on the Neon Tetra by her tail. About the size of a grain of salt, and nope.
How do you clean the filter?Maintenance schedule? Once a week i dip and check the nitrates and nitrites, water change abut a third adding safe start to the new water before i put it in. The filter gets swilled out in the old tank water and put back in. Twice (about 2 weeks apart because of the treatment of Protozin) i've used a gravel vac.
The temp in the tank is 24 c
Thanks for the quick replies.
25/10/10 Jewel Korall 60 tank. 3 neon tetras. 3 peppered corys. 2 red eye tetras. 2 xray tetras. 3 female guppies. 1 male guppies 3 ender guppies.What filter are you using. I have an internal Bioflow mini,with an extra nitrax sponge filter in it to help with the nitrates.
Does the lip look bleached out, any fluffy cotton wool on the mouth, or strands of cotton coming from the mouth area. No strands or fluffy cotton wool but the lip looked bleached and slightly puffy (guppy died last night)
How big is the spots on the cory. Is it bigger than a grain of salt.Any redness to the spot. Its on the Neon Tetra by her tail. About the size of a grain of salt, and nope.
How do you clean the filter?Maintenance schedule? Once a week i dip and check the nitrates and nitrites, water change abut a third adding safe start to the new water before i put it in. The filter gets swilled out in the old tank water and put back in. Twice (about 2 weeks apart because of the treatment of Protozin) i've used a gravel vac.
The temp in the tank is 24 c
Thanks for the quick replies.
Keep a look out for small white spots.
Any tiny bubbles on the fish.
Are fish showing signs of flicking and rubbing, darting, excess mucas, laboured breathing.
Only touch your sponges once there looking mucked up.
Don't over do the rinsing of the sponges in old tank water. it can cause a mini cycle.
I would only touch one sponge, do the other a few weeks later.
Any tiny bubbles on the fish.
Are fish showing signs of flicking and rubbing, darting, excess mucas, laboured breathing.
Only touch your sponges once there looking mucked up.
Don't over do the rinsing of the sponges in old tank water. it can cause a mini cycle.
I would only touch one sponge, do the other a few weeks later.
No i cant see any bubbles or white spots on any of the other fish, and (other than the female guppies being chased around by the males!)no darting ect.
Thanks for the info regarding the sponges that was interesting, i'll make sure i only clean as and when needed.
I was reading some info on ich and it said to turn up the heat slightly and treat every other day for up to 10/14 days. What do you think about that? It was so you catch the parasite at the right time in its cycle.
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whats the stats on the tank today
I've had fish in the past that have had white spots on the tail region. It wasn't whitespot.
They took some getting rid of.
Fish can get columnaris spots. There bigger than whitespot, and they look a greyish white, with redness. Redness in the centre of the spot, or redness around the edge of the spot.
Also smooth spots, or cauliflower looking growths on fins can be viral lymthocystis.
They took some getting rid of.
Fish can get columnaris spots. There bigger than whitespot, and they look a greyish white, with redness. Redness in the centre of the spot, or redness around the edge of the spot.
Also smooth spots, or cauliflower looking growths on fins can be viral lymthocystis.
Lol i cant tell if there is redness around the spot as its on the red bit of the tetras body! It isnt red in the center though.
Todays stats are
Broad ph level 7.2
Ammonia 0.4
Nitrite 0.1
Nitrate 40mg
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you need to water change to get
you ammonia and nitrite down do you
use a dechlorinator when doing water changes
also for got to ask whats the temp on the tank
We're planning on doing a big (25-50%)water change tomorrow and cleaning the stones and plants and gravel vac'ing too, if thats ok?
Yep i use safe start to declorinate the water before it goes into the tank.
What do you think about continuing with the Protozin?
The tetra has now got some cloudy patches on her side too but no more spots on any other fish.
The temp is 26c.
Thanks for all the good advise i do appreciate it.
I did 4 days of 4ml missed a day then 2 further days of 4ml
Did the other fish have white
spots all so.
When a fish has whitespot it's best to treat another week once spots have gone.
Cloudy patches can be bad water quality, ph shock, bacterial, parasites, fungal.
spots all so.
When a fish has whitespot it's best to treat another week once spots have gone.
Cloudy patches can be bad water quality, ph shock, bacterial, parasites, fungal.
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