number20121
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Hello everyone!
As mentioned a good while ago I got to own tropical fish by accident, rescued them from being flushed.
Anyway, my juvenile angelfish, which is maybe a little over half an inch long, has developed some sort of fuzz. I tried to look it up, it does not really look like ich, more maybe like some sort of fungus. I tried to take some photos of it but I only got this cheap point and shoot camera and the pics don't show it. The best I could describe it with is how it looks like when a person got sunburn and then the skin is flaking off. Her fins have a bit of white fuzz to them too, but it is not fin rot. There is only a tiny split in her caudal, but she came with that and it is now only half as big as before.
There is no redness, no flashing, scraping, nothing. The fish acts completely normal. How should I treat that? The tank is currently being treated with Prazi Pro since the affected fish is new. I got her for a couple weeks now.
If the tank stats are needed:
55 gallon tank, lightly planted, HOB filter with 190gph, weekly 40% water change, running for a couple months but started with cycled media from the 20 gallon tank I had to use since August 2010 (which again was seeded with media from my goldfish tank back then).
The tank is home to the tiny angelfish, an adult angelfish, two platies, two dwarf gouramis, a 6 inch common pleco, two apple snails and about 8 ghost shrimp.
The water params are 0/0/10 (not planted enough to take 100% care of the nitrate), pH is 7.5, temperature 78F. Using prime during water change, water change is done BY thorough gravel vacuuming.
Since she is sooo tiny, she can't eat pellets right, but she eats gel food and tiny blood worms. And I'm pretty sure she ate most of the ghost shrimp larvae; I had a couple shrimp laying eggs.
The only thing changed since I have this fish is that I added crushed coral to raise the pH from 7.2 to 7.5 since the snails shells began to erode quite a bit.
None of the other fish is affected either.
Now I have a QT tub but currently no heater or filter for it. If I need to separate her from the others I could put her in the 1 gallon drum bowl and clamp it to the inside of the 55 gallon tank so she can benefit from the temperature. I'd just have to do daily water changes then I suppose.
Any ideas and suggestions on how to take care of this?
Thanks!
As mentioned a good while ago I got to own tropical fish by accident, rescued them from being flushed.
Anyway, my juvenile angelfish, which is maybe a little over half an inch long, has developed some sort of fuzz. I tried to look it up, it does not really look like ich, more maybe like some sort of fungus. I tried to take some photos of it but I only got this cheap point and shoot camera and the pics don't show it. The best I could describe it with is how it looks like when a person got sunburn and then the skin is flaking off. Her fins have a bit of white fuzz to them too, but it is not fin rot. There is only a tiny split in her caudal, but she came with that and it is now only half as big as before.
There is no redness, no flashing, scraping, nothing. The fish acts completely normal. How should I treat that? The tank is currently being treated with Prazi Pro since the affected fish is new. I got her for a couple weeks now.
If the tank stats are needed:
55 gallon tank, lightly planted, HOB filter with 190gph, weekly 40% water change, running for a couple months but started with cycled media from the 20 gallon tank I had to use since August 2010 (which again was seeded with media from my goldfish tank back then).
The tank is home to the tiny angelfish, an adult angelfish, two platies, two dwarf gouramis, a 6 inch common pleco, two apple snails and about 8 ghost shrimp.
The water params are 0/0/10 (not planted enough to take 100% care of the nitrate), pH is 7.5, temperature 78F. Using prime during water change, water change is done BY thorough gravel vacuuming.
Since she is sooo tiny, she can't eat pellets right, but she eats gel food and tiny blood worms. And I'm pretty sure she ate most of the ghost shrimp larvae; I had a couple shrimp laying eggs.
The only thing changed since I have this fish is that I added crushed coral to raise the pH from 7.2 to 7.5 since the snails shells began to erode quite a bit.
None of the other fish is affected either.
Now I have a QT tub but currently no heater or filter for it. If I need to separate her from the others I could put her in the 1 gallon drum bowl and clamp it to the inside of the 55 gallon tank so she can benefit from the temperature. I'd just have to do daily water changes then I suppose.
Any ideas and suggestions on how to take care of this?
Thanks!
