Tank: 55 gallons
Current Residents: 1 loach, 2 African dwarf frogs, 5 black skirt tetras, 3 zebra danios, 5 swordtails, 1 xray something?, 1 yellow and black something?, 1 rainbow something?, and 2 golden snails. Massive extinction recently wiped out half of the tank.
I am having an ich problem, I raised the temp. to almost 85 degrees (F) and I do not have a hospital tank available. I gave my 3rd treatment of ich medicine and my frogs are still alive, though I've had a huge extinction from the ich itself in the last 3 days, i've lost about a dozen fish, all which were new to the tank (purchased within 2 weeks). My loach, (i have only one) is one of my favorites, I would feel worse if it died than just about any other in the tank, as well as my 3 swordtails and their 2 babies, which all have been in the tank for about a year, (babies are about 3 weeks old). Just before i noticed the disease here are the changes to the tank that were made... 1) I had a 10 inch pleco that i gave away because he was causing to much waste and making the tank look disgusting. 2) I bought about 10 to 15 new fish (many were very, very tiny schooling fish)
Any advice from tropical fish gurus is much appreciated, I've only been into fish for about 2 years now and it's becoming one of my favorite hobbies. This is the first time something this bad has happened to me so far.
Current Residents: 1 loach, 2 African dwarf frogs, 5 black skirt tetras, 3 zebra danios, 5 swordtails, 1 xray something?, 1 yellow and black something?, 1 rainbow something?, and 2 golden snails. Massive extinction recently wiped out half of the tank.
I am having an ich problem, I raised the temp. to almost 85 degrees (F) and I do not have a hospital tank available. I gave my 3rd treatment of ich medicine and my frogs are still alive, though I've had a huge extinction from the ich itself in the last 3 days, i've lost about a dozen fish, all which were new to the tank (purchased within 2 weeks). My loach, (i have only one) is one of my favorites, I would feel worse if it died than just about any other in the tank, as well as my 3 swordtails and their 2 babies, which all have been in the tank for about a year, (babies are about 3 weeks old). Just before i noticed the disease here are the changes to the tank that were made... 1) I had a 10 inch pleco that i gave away because he was causing to much waste and making the tank look disgusting. 2) I bought about 10 to 15 new fish (many were very, very tiny schooling fish)
Any advice from tropical fish gurus is much appreciated, I've only been into fish for about 2 years now and it's becoming one of my favorite hobbies. This is the first time something this bad has happened to me so far.
