fluffycabbage
Fish Herder
Background: i went on holiday for 5 days, leaving my partners son in charge of the tank. Essentially all he had to do was turn the lights on when he got up, turn them off when he went to bed, and feed them premeasured/bagged amounts of food. Easy. Apparently not. When i came back the large amount of cabomba i had in there had gone brown, some of the fish didnt look that perky, and one clown loach (juve) had died.
I removed all the brown cabomba, just a tiny bit of green left. Had a water test done at p@h and nitrites and ammonia were up a fair bit. So i did a 50% water change, then next day 25%, next day 25%. Then realised quite a few of them have ich and fungus (mainly the platies).
I separated the platies and started to raise the temp, but then noticed a couple of the neons and a clown loach and the cae have a few ich spots. So i put all of them back in the same tank and decided to treat them all.
Im treating with heat for the ich, and with protozin. The pair of juve angels have gone off their food, and arent happy. The clown loaches ive barely seen. Corydoras, neons, cae, platies seem fine with the treatment. Ive removed the nerites and put them in the hospital tank to avoid the meds.
So....am i doing the right thing? Ive not read anywhere that you shouldnt raise temp with protozin...
Even though the angels are in the same tank and may now be carrying the parasite (though i cant see any ich on them), should i be separating them? I dont want them to die!
Thanks for any advice
I removed all the brown cabomba, just a tiny bit of green left. Had a water test done at p@h and nitrites and ammonia were up a fair bit. So i did a 50% water change, then next day 25%, next day 25%. Then realised quite a few of them have ich and fungus (mainly the platies).
I separated the platies and started to raise the temp, but then noticed a couple of the neons and a clown loach and the cae have a few ich spots. So i put all of them back in the same tank and decided to treat them all.
Im treating with heat for the ich, and with protozin. The pair of juve angels have gone off their food, and arent happy. The clown loaches ive barely seen. Corydoras, neons, cae, platies seem fine with the treatment. Ive removed the nerites and put them in the hospital tank to avoid the meds.
So....am i doing the right thing? Ive not read anywhere that you shouldnt raise temp with protozin...
Even though the angels are in the same tank and may now be carrying the parasite (though i cant see any ich on them), should i be separating them? I dont want them to die!
Thanks for any advice
