So Mad, New Fish Are All Sick!

[snowflake311]

I bought 9 tetras they all looked good but a few fish in the tank had maybe body rot. The body of the tail was white or so pale it looked white. One had a white mouth mouth rot.

So I put them in a 20 gal qt tank I also bought a bn pleco who is fine. The tetras eat well swim fine. I'm so mad everyday a new one has mouth rot or tail rot. The water is good I was doing wc every other day.
0 ammonia
0 nitrite
5 nitrate
ph 7

I'm so mad I only have 7 left and 3 have some rot. What the heck do I do. I am treating with fungus clear by jungle. It's not working. I feel like they all will die on me. But the pleco.

 

[Rafael Dilone]

I bought 9 tetras they all looked good but a few fish in the tank had maybe body rot. The body of the tail was white or so pale it looked white. One had a white mouth mouth rot.

So I put them in a 20 gal qt tank I also bought a bn pleco who is fine. The tetras eat well swim fine. I'm so mad everyday a new one has mouth rot or tail rot. The water is good I was doing wc every other day.
0 ammonia
0 nitrite
5 nitrate
ph 7

I'm so mad I only have 7 left and 3 have some rot. What the heck do I do. I am treating with fungus clear by jungle. It's not working. I feel like they all will die on me. But the pleco.

Perhaps you should quarantine all the new fish you receive so you are able to observe them before adding them to the main tank. You don't want new fishes to possibly ruin all the previous hard work in your main tank. I know some people may not be able to afford a spare tank to be used as a quarantine tank. Isolating the fish within a net divider could stop the widespread of the infection they are carrying. Doing a 20% water change before getting the fishes could help lower the stress level of the fishes that are being added. Some of the fishes you purchase at the LFS are under great stress and you want to make the acclimation to your main tank as least stressful as possible. Some medications can be used as a preventative so you can go through one of those treatments when you receive the fish. The drip method is among the most effective when adding fishes but that takes a very long time as well. In conclusion there are just so many methods people use to avoid getting sick fish into their main tank or making them stress. I hope you are able to find a reasonable solution to your problem =]

 

[snowflake311]

They have been in a 20gal QT = quarantine tank since June 22 and are not comeing out. The tank was perfectly clean before I added them since this tank is only for qt and hospital. I keep an extra filter running on my other tank. So I take mature sponge out and switch over to this tanks filter when I need it.

Only my new fish in the QT are not doing well. All my other fish are happy and well in their tank.

I don't know what to do with these guys. They are just unhealthy stock and were only at the store for 3 days before I got them. Like I said before the BN pleco is fine. It's just the tetras.

 

[Rafael Dilone]

They have been in a 20gal QT = quarantine tank since June 22 and are not comeing out. The tank was perfectly clean before I added the them since this tank is only for qt and hospital. I keep an extra filter running on my other tank that I take and switch over to this tank when I need it.

It's all my new fish that are not doing well. All my other fish are happy and well in their tank.

I don't know what to do with these guys. They are just unhealthy stock and were only at the store for 3 days before I got them. Like I said before the BN pleco is fine.

Now i understand the situation better. What i usually do if i ever do decide to buy from a LFS is not buy their fishes until about 5-7 days have passed from the time they arrived at the store. At that time the remaining livestock has survived for a few days under new conditions and more likely to be healthier than purchasing them close to the date they were brought in. Observe the fishes you are buying for a few minutes so you see they have no visible signs of any disease or are sluggish. But the batch that you bought were probably just a bad shipment from the store you received them from

 

[walkers101]

I bought 9 tetras they all looked good but a few fish in the tank had maybe body rot.

Rule no.1 never buy fish from a tank that has a disease.

 

[snowflake311]

Yeah I know the rule. But I thought I could save them And that the fish I got looked fine at the time.

I will try another method of treatment like maracyn .

 

[snowflake311]

Well there is no doubt in my mind that what I'm dealing with is columnaris disease. I have a handy little book about fish diseases and this helped me diagnosis the fish. I lost 2 more so now I 5 tetras and the pleco is still fine. I started treatment of maracyn and we will see how it goes.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

They have been in a 20gal QT = quarantine tank since June 22 and are not comeing out. The tank was perfectly clean before I added the them since this tank is only for qt and hospital. I keep an extra filter running on my other tank that I take and switch over to this tank when I need it.

It's all my new fish that are not doing well. All my other fish are happy and well in their tank.

I don't know what to do with these guys. They are just unhealthy stock and were only at the store for 3 days before I got them. Like I said before the BN pleco is fine.

Now i understand the situation better. What i usually do if i ever do decide to buy from a LFS is not buy their fishes until about 5-7 days have passed from the time they arrived at the store. At that time the remaining livestock has survived for a few days under new conditions and more likely to be healthier than purchasing them close to the date they were brought in. Observe the fishes you are buying for a few minutes so you see they have no visible signs of any disease or are sluggish. But the batch that you bought were probably just a bad shipment from the store you received them from

I think this is a great bit of advice, letting fish settle into the shop tank for a while before buying, most shops will let you reserve some for future collection. I'm trying to keep to a 14-days+ in the LFS before bringing anything home, which is going to be very hard for me once the new batch of Ctenopoma and Steatocranus arrive from the Congo (first delivery batch did not have these guys sadly, but its "Congo season" for the next few weeks and more batches are expected.

 

[snowflake311]

Yes in the back of my head I knew I should have waited. I know the rule about not buying fish the day they come in and let them stay a week. Normaly I do wait before I buy but I really wanted this guys. I thought that since I would do daily water changes they would do better in my tank. This was not so. I'm normaly pretty good with picking out fish and treating them I have saved a few fish in my day. This time I'm not so lucky. I hope this new treatment will save the rest of them.

Thanks guys.

 

[emmettbaby]

(just in case newbies decide to take a look at the thread) Addition to rule #1: never buy fish from a tank that is connected to the same system as a tank with even ONE sick fish. I've noticed that a lot of fish stores have many tanks connected to a single system. They all share the same water and DISEASES but it does make sense since each tank can't be run by itself. Hopefully the people at the store will be honest enough to tell you which tanks are on which system and just avoid "sick" systems

Sorry bout you fish tho and I hope the rest get better and life happy lives! Really sorry that I couldn't give more advice about the meds, I'm not well versed in them yet!

 

[snowflake311]

Thanks and good call on shops that have conected filter systems. My fish stores that are not on a conected system have the old school underground filter . Well the tetras I have left are doing ok no more deaths. The pleco looks great never caught anything. I really want to move her to the main tank but will wait longer.

 

[Luzi]

Fin rot and mouth rot look like fungus but they're bacterial so it's no wonder the fungus meds weren't working
Good move with changing to bacterial meds, I'm glad no more died