Ugh Here We Go Again.

[Man of fish]

Well already used copper safe so I guess I'm just hoping for the best. Only other med I've got/ can get is pimafix (have) melafix(can get) life guard (can get) and all the other mardel crap.(maricyn, maracide, maricyn 2, etc.) (can get)

 

[Man of fish]

Well this morning I got up. No dead fish!!!!! It seems to be getting better. I'm going to do a 3 gallon water change because it's all I can add meds to. I'm leaving the light off all day today and I didn't feed this morning but will feed a very small amount tonight. Just keeping you updated even though you prolly don't care.
I'm going to buy more meds today as well. It seems to be getting better,(knock on wood) but I've still got my fingers crossed.

 

[Man of fish]

Just another update of 1 week later. It got better then it got much much worse. Today I found 3 dead cardinals and I'm about to do a 50% w/c. Any suggestions on mess or what to do???

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Fish tend to get sick when they are stressed. Their immune system is down when they stress out causing them to become susceptible to disease. You need to find the source of the stress.

 

[Man of fish]

Ok. All I could think of would've been the ph drop I had a few weeks ago from 7.2ish to 6.6. Would this be enough to stress them. Now it's at 7.0 and it stays stable there. I think it dropped because I added wood.

Oh wait no! I accidentally bought a sick fish I just remembered. 2 of the 5 cardinals I bought 2 weeks ago had loss of color and 1 spot and I figured they'd gain back they're color then that's when they all started to get spots!! I just remembered that.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

I've had sick fish in a tank with fish that were healthy, and the healthy unstressed ones did not get sick.

 

[Man of fish]

Well only the tetras got it and one platy so far so obviously they aren't all stressed. The one platy was always hiding and the tetras maybe it was unfavorable ph??? If all the tetras die I'm going to try something different for a nice shoaling fish

 

[Man of fish]

I woke up to 3 or 4 dead tetras I caught 3 and can't find 1. Could Iput the healthy mollys in my 5 gallon.

 

[Cazgar]

You do seem to have problems with your fish.
I don't know how many fish shops you have in your area, but maybe look for another one, or maybe quarantine them before adding to your tank

 

[Man of fish]

Yea I recently bought a qt tank to start quarantining them. I only have a petco, petsmart, and a very expensive store that's moving 20 minutes from my house in a week. Other than that everywhere else is over an hour away so I'm going to qt them from now on and hopefully I'll get going nicely.