tagary3
New Member
Hi all from a recent aquarium owner,
The tank is around 8 weeks and I did make the mistake of not allowing to cycle initially
but since then have read up on what should be done.
I have a 30 gallon hexagonal tank. Water quality is OK - all parameters are within the "norms", ie within what should be expected but do not know water hardness. Specifically:
pH 7.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate <40
I exchange approx. 15-30% of the water weekly with conditioned tapwater (I use Marineland products Bio Spira, Bio-Stress and Bio-Coat. I use an aerator and have an Emporer biofilter. I change the carbon biofilter every two weeks.
Fish in tank are: 2 Upside down catfish, 2 Guoramis (one Dwarf and one Blue), 1 male Betta and 2 Guppy). We had 5 Guppys but 3 died without showing signs of disease as did our previous Bettas (one female who lasted 5 weeks and one male who died after only 7 days). The most recently introduced fish are the Guppys, Blue Gourami (introduced at the same time 5/6/06) and Bettas on 510/05 which died and a Betta added 5/19/05.
Last night my wife spotted on a wall of the aquarium what appeared to be very small "maggots" for want of a better word, about 3 to 4mm in size and about 15 of them. I removed them as best as I could. This morning another Guppy was dead, the little larvae had returned in smaller numbers.
The Catfish and Dwarf G are still going strong after about 6 weeks and a scare to us when DG looked ill. More frequent water changes initially and the use of Bio-Spira seems to have helped. We did vacation for 2 weeks and on return the 2catfish, a female betta and DG were all fine. it is only since adding the fish from 5/6/05 that we have problems. None of the "old time" fish are experiencing problems nor the blue gourami
My called me at work today and she thinks the Betta is dying too.
Could anyone give us help? Is this a parasite and if so, or if not, what should we do?
Thanks in advance,
Tagary
The tank is around 8 weeks and I did make the mistake of not allowing to cycle initially
but since then have read up on what should be done.I have a 30 gallon hexagonal tank. Water quality is OK - all parameters are within the "norms", ie within what should be expected but do not know water hardness. Specifically:
pH 7.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate <40
I exchange approx. 15-30% of the water weekly with conditioned tapwater (I use Marineland products Bio Spira, Bio-Stress and Bio-Coat. I use an aerator and have an Emporer biofilter. I change the carbon biofilter every two weeks.
Fish in tank are: 2 Upside down catfish, 2 Guoramis (one Dwarf and one Blue), 1 male Betta and 2 Guppy). We had 5 Guppys but 3 died without showing signs of disease as did our previous Bettas (one female who lasted 5 weeks and one male who died after only 7 days). The most recently introduced fish are the Guppys, Blue Gourami (introduced at the same time 5/6/06) and Bettas on 510/05 which died and a Betta added 5/19/05.
Last night my wife spotted on a wall of the aquarium what appeared to be very small "maggots" for want of a better word, about 3 to 4mm in size and about 15 of them. I removed them as best as I could. This morning another Guppy was dead, the little larvae had returned in smaller numbers.
The Catfish and Dwarf G are still going strong after about 6 weeks and a scare to us when DG looked ill. More frequent water changes initially and the use of Bio-Spira seems to have helped. We did vacation for 2 weeks and on return the 2catfish, a female betta and DG were all fine. it is only since adding the fish from 5/6/05 that we have problems. None of the "old time" fish are experiencing problems nor the blue gourami
My called me at work today and she thinks the Betta is dying too.
Could anyone give us help? Is this a parasite and if so, or if not, what should we do?
Thanks in advance,
Tagary
/www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html#Lernea
