Hi! I was hoping someone could help me figure out how to treat my fish. I've spent days looking up gill diseases and have really come up empty handed.
I have a 29 gallon high aquarium. The fish that are in it are:
3 little corydoras
1 Large hoplosturnum catfish
3 red tetras
1 black neon
1 simease fighting fish
1 female paradise fish
I have am aquaclear 300 power filter, with a relatively new(about 10-14 days old) sponge and an Ammo-Carb cartridge.
I had no problems until, 2 things happened, first my heater started to crap out and the tempurature was fluctuating between 70 to 78 (which I know is NOT good) so within a day or two I was able to replace the heater. Now the tempurature is a steady 78. My boyfriend though bought new fish, (the same day as the heater), 3 little corydoras and 2 weather loaches. This is where things started going wrong. I did have a large angelfish of about 6 years of age. It began panting at the surface and refusing to eat. So I began treating the tank with Aquari-Sol. Within 4 or 5 days the Angel Fish died. The poor guy. I noticed he seemed to have something wrong with one of his gills. I wouldn't say mucus but maybe extra tissue or something...
Then both my loaches stopped eating and had trouble swimming and continually went up to the surface of the tank. When they both died and I picked them up out of the water and placed them on a paper towel their gills we're bleeding on the paper towel. Now my little corydoras are showing signs of the same illness. I've been to various websites about gill disease but they don't fit all the symptoms for the diseases that they list. Plus there are very conflicting treatments. Some say to lower the temp some say to raise the temp. Some say this treatment some say a different treatment. Please help this confused fish owner before she loses anymore of her fish.
Thank you so much.
Amy
Gill Disease
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Gill Disease
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First rule is always quarantine new fish in a separate tank for a minimum of 60 days.
Second rules is to test your water often and immediately if you fish are stressed.
The obvious is to say that the new fish caused the problem but it could have been a
toxic ammonia or nitrite spike. If it was some type of gill parasite I'm not sure if Aquari-Sol
is the right thing to use. I use Aquari-Sol for soaking nets and occasionally for treating new
arrivals but if I really feel that parasites are the problem I use Clout. Aquari-Sol contains
copper salts which can become toxic if you use too much. At this point, I would not treat
your tank with anything, keep doing water changes, and test your water chemistry.
Read this sticky and it will explain what you need to test for and include in your post.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4305
More detailed water parameters will help others to suggest a better solution to the problem.
Second rules is to test your water often and immediately if you fish are stressed.
The obvious is to say that the new fish caused the problem but it could have been a
toxic ammonia or nitrite spike. If it was some type of gill parasite I'm not sure if Aquari-Sol
is the right thing to use. I use Aquari-Sol for soaking nets and occasionally for treating new
arrivals but if I really feel that parasites are the problem I use Clout. Aquari-Sol contains
copper salts which can become toxic if you use too much. At this point, I would not treat
your tank with anything, keep doing water changes, and test your water chemistry.
Read this sticky and it will explain what you need to test for and include in your post.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4305
More detailed water parameters will help others to suggest a better solution to the problem.