KateW
Fish Fanatic
Hi Everyone, I wonder if you could give me some opinions please. I have just moved four neon tetras to quarantine from my 185 litre community tank.
185 litre parameters - Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 40-80, pH 6.8 - 7.0 (more or less the same right out of the tap, but hard to read on API test), temperature 24 - 26 degrees c.
Other tankmates - one BN plec (three inches), one angelfish (two inches body length), one dwarf gourami, one honey gourami, 7 peppered cories, 6 panda cories. All look to be well, active and eating, no marks, patches or funny behaviour.
I know the neons should be in groups bigger than four, but these are the last four after a tank wipeout last year - I have had them about 18 months in all. I was debating whether I had room to increase their group with my current stocking, but more of that later.
QT tank parameters - Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate as tap (40-80), temp 25 degrees c. Mature media nicked from big external to fill the QT tank internal filter (only maybe 5% of total, big tank shoudln't notice at all).
Symptoms: One neon is suddenly looking quite crooked, and is having difficulty swimming upright - he is kind of corkscrewing around. The v shape under his mouth (where gills split) is quite red. He spends a few minutes at a time floating on his side at the top, and then corkscrewing again. There are some white patches on his fins.
The other three neons do not look as bad, but have white patches on fins, and one has what looks like mouth fungus. I have just added a dose of melafix to the QT tank.
I'm not sure if the four neons should all be in QT together, but as all four look a bit dodgy, I thought they would be better out of the community tank.
Does this sound like neon tetra disease? If it is I have read some other threads here that suggest it is very contagious (not just for neons). What shall I do for them? Any help would be really appreciated.
185 litre parameters - Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 40-80, pH 6.8 - 7.0 (more or less the same right out of the tap, but hard to read on API test), temperature 24 - 26 degrees c.
Other tankmates - one BN plec (three inches), one angelfish (two inches body length), one dwarf gourami, one honey gourami, 7 peppered cories, 6 panda cories. All look to be well, active and eating, no marks, patches or funny behaviour.
I know the neons should be in groups bigger than four, but these are the last four after a tank wipeout last year - I have had them about 18 months in all. I was debating whether I had room to increase their group with my current stocking, but more of that later.
QT tank parameters - Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate as tap (40-80), temp 25 degrees c. Mature media nicked from big external to fill the QT tank internal filter (only maybe 5% of total, big tank shoudln't notice at all).
Symptoms: One neon is suddenly looking quite crooked, and is having difficulty swimming upright - he is kind of corkscrewing around. The v shape under his mouth (where gills split) is quite red. He spends a few minutes at a time floating on his side at the top, and then corkscrewing again. There are some white patches on his fins.
The other three neons do not look as bad, but have white patches on fins, and one has what looks like mouth fungus. I have just added a dose of melafix to the QT tank.
I'm not sure if the four neons should all be in QT together, but as all four look a bit dodgy, I thought they would be better out of the community tank.
Does this sound like neon tetra disease? If it is I have read some other threads here that suggest it is very contagious (not just for neons). What shall I do for them? Any help would be really appreciated.
