Help Needed Please, My Fish Are Dying!

[lisad]

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.

 

[Davo86]

Hi there
can i ask what the actual test results were and what test you used?
Also which treatment are you using?
What is the temp atm? has aeration been increased?

Honey gouramis, guppys and some tetra species aren't really that hardy and tbh the cycle should of lasted a lot longer

 

[Bigbadbaz]

Some fish are more susceptable to whitespot than others, is looks like you added too many fish at once which could have strained your filter. Do not add anymore fish till all whitespot has gone and has been clear for a few weeks.

 

[lisad]

Hi there
can i ask what the actual test results were and what test you used?
Also which treatment are you using?
What is the temp atm? has aeration been increased?

Honey gouramis, guppys and some tetra species aren't really that hardy and tbh the cycle should of lasted a lot longer

Hi

It is an API Master test kit

the last test I did

PH 7.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5

the temp is 27 C and I did increase the aeration, any thoughts?

 

[Davo86]

I would personally have the temp inbetween 28-30C to quicken up the lifecycle, and then combine this with half doses of the treatment that you are using,
Which treatment are you using / what does it contain? - WS3 or Protozin are generally two of the better ones to use

 

[lisad]

I would personally have the temp inbetween 28-30C to quicken up the lifecycle, and then combine this with half doses of the treatment that you are using,
Which treatment are you using / what does it contain? - WS3 or Protozin are generally two of the better ones to use

Thanks, will do that. The treatment is a white spot treatment from pets at home and it says it contains:

Malachite Greem
Acriflavine and Quinine Sulphate

Would I be best buying one of the ones you recommend?

 

[Davo86]

Well it has exactly the same ingredients as WS3, so assuming the doseages are similar it should do the job
try keeping the tank in darkness for a day or so and see if that helps

 

[lisad]

Ok Thanks will do, how often do you recommend treating with the white spot treatment?

 

[Davo86]

Ok Thanks will do, how often do you recommend treating with the white spot treatment?

every treatment is different tbh. I think WS3 says to treat every other day up until 7 days after the spots dissapear, whilst Protozin says to treat something like the 1st,2nd, 3rd, and 6th day,

 

[Chris w]

too add to this do you have any carbon in your filter as this would reduce the effectivness of any treatment.

also guppies are not hard to keep just make sure you float your fish prior to their release.

also white spot is disese caused by stress and is unavoidble.

1 product i personally recomend if you can get it is

sol bactonettes and can be placed inside a canister filter and to you can stock fish 24 hours later with complete filter protection.