Recent content by ruahusker

Good to know. Thanks for the info. My Ich-x treatment that I am currently using has Malachite Green and formaldehyde in it. so hopefully if it is velvet then that will help take care of it. I am on day two of treatment with that. I went ahead and ordered some Kanaplex and Sulfaplex to treat...

Good suggestions. I have ordered some aquarium salt from Fritz aquatics, and I am going to pick up a little 5.5 gallon tank as a hospital tank from petco's aquarium sale today. Although I might just treat the entire tank and do the aggressive water changes just in case there is something sort...

The 20ppm nitrate is probably partly due to my Easy Green fertilizer. I use it on all of my tanks and my nitrates kind of bounce around from 0-20 depending on plant uptake. It could be though that these CPD's are more sensitive than the rest of my fish.

Additional info. Water changes about 10% once a week. I have begun to treat with ICH-X in case it is fungal in nature on advise from a fellow fishkeeper friend. I don't think it is Ich, but my understanding is that it can help with some other fungal issues. Obviously if this is bacterial...

Three of my CPD's have clamped back and dorsal fins. I have a handful of cherry shrimp and 11 CPD's in a somewhat heavily planted 10 gallon tank. Tank is fully cycled and been around for a long time. Parameters are Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates about 20 PH approx 7.4 Temp 73 KH 5 GH 8...