Tail Rot!? Help!

[WILDER]

Sorry a yellow colour on a nitrate test dosn't mean anything to me, what the reading and what test kit do you use.
So you don't do a gravel vac.

 

[*Fishkies*]

Just completed the Nitrate test and it says 0. It's pure yellow color.

The test showed that it Nitrate was 0

I'm not sure exactly whose test kit it is, I think it's API and I also have mardel ammonia testing component.

I don't use the gravel vaccum exactly (i do not like to use them, have never had luck in using them), but I do brush up the stones and get the junk out.

 

[WILDER]

Red streaking in fins is bad water quality and septicemia.
Look at the bottom of the link.
http/www.nationalfishpharm.com/fish_diseases/fins.html

Test your tap nitrate reading dosn't make sense to me.

 

[*Fishkies*]

Okay will treat and isolate. I just bought some of that tetracycline today.

 

[WILDER]

Ok.
Check your tap nitrate reading as I find with goldfish its really rare not to have a nitrate reading even when your tap nitrate is 0, and that is fairly rare too.

 

[*Fishkies*]

Okay...umm is this septicemia contagious???

 

[WILDER]

It can be as the bacteria from the fish can enters the tank, I've had it with a fish and it passed it onto some others.
Read an article on septicemia and it said septicemia can enter the tank, more though cuts and wounds.

Look under h septicemia it say quarantine.

http/www.angelfire.com/poetry/canadasang...shDiseases.html

 

[*Fishkies*]

OKay after I take him out should I put any medication in the BIG tank so that none of the others get this???

 

[WILDER]

Just water changes on the main tank.
How long has the goldfish tank been set up.
I would get the gravel vac out, and see if that fetches the nitrite reading down.
As the longer you have that nitrite reading the fish will be stressed and get ill.

 

[*Fishkies*]

I did a water change earlier toinght so I'll do another one tomorrow. (Unless you think another one tonight will benefit them??)

The fish have only been in the tank for a week together. But the tank was setup longer before they were in it, I can't remember the exact amount of time though (it was a while, I thought I'd never get to put the fish in.)

 

[WILDER]

So you didn't keep the filter bacteria going in the tank.
The tank cycling then

 

[*Fishkies*]

It's there I haven't removed anything.

( I meant that these three fish have not all been together forever. They just were combined together a week or so ago.)

 

[WILDER]

Don't touch the gravel till ammonia and nitrite are 0.