I am hoping someone can help me. I thought I was being really careful. I read up on setting up my tank before I went out and brought it.
I took any advice I could get. Set up with live plants etc and cycled my tank for 10 days with food etc before adding 3 Honey Gourami as I was advised they were very hardy. Everything seemed fine and they were getting on well for over a week. I tested the water all ok, I did a water change about 20% and then added 3 female and 1 Male Guppie and a 2 tetras. Shortly after these were added I noticed a few white spots on my Honey Gouramis.
I took some advice from this site and slowly increased the temp slightly also went out and brought a treatment from Pets as Home and added this. However, the whitespot seems to be clearing on the Gouramis but yesterday had covered the guppies and tetras. Consequently, both tetras died yesterday as well as two female guppies and my male guppy looks like he is on the way out as well today!!!!
I have tested the water daily with a master test kit since I saw the spots PH, Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite and the water always reads fine I don't understand why the gouramis seem to have been responding to this treatment and everything else it getting worse!!!
I am very upset about this as I thought I had covered all the bases so that I didn't cause any unneccesary suffering and am now considering giving up so I don't hurt any more innocent fish...Any advice on where I have gone wrong would be greatly appreciated.
I took any advice I could get. Set up with live plants etc and cycled my tank for 10 days with food etc before adding 3 Honey Gourami as I was advised they were very hardy. Everything seemed fine and they were getting on well for over a week. I tested the water all ok, I did a water change about 20% and then added 3 female and 1 Male Guppie and a 2 tetras. Shortly after these were added I noticed a few white spots on my Honey Gouramis.
I took some advice from this site and slowly increased the temp slightly also went out and brought a treatment from Pets as Home and added this. However, the whitespot seems to be clearing on the Gouramis but yesterday had covered the guppies and tetras. Consequently, both tetras died yesterday as well as two female guppies and my male guppy looks like he is on the way out as well today!!!!
I have tested the water daily with a master test kit since I saw the spots PH, Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite and the water always reads fine I don't understand why the gouramis seem to have been responding to this treatment and everything else it getting worse!!!
I am very upset about this as I thought I had covered all the bases so that I didn't cause any unneccesary suffering and am now considering giving up so I don't hurt any more innocent fish...Any advice on where I have gone wrong would be greatly appreciated.
The guppies are weakest, and hence that may be why they are flaking. Some keepers even struggle to keep them in mature tanks, with years of experience under their belts, so as a relative newcommer, don't be too dissheartened by them going over. With trade sourced stock, it's vertually un-avoidable with guppies 
