Help!

Hi I need some help, about a week ago my son put a hand full of change into my 60gal cichlid tank. As soon as I noticed it I pulled all the change out or so I thought. I missed a dime that had got covered with gravel. I noticed my fish looking sick and they started getting a slimy film on them so I did a 50% water change and dug in the gravel and thats when I found the dime. I dont know what it is to treat it so I am asking for help. It is affecting all my fish but its most niticable on my albino tiger oscar. I have attched a pic of my oscar and you can see air bubbles stuck to the slime. I have also noticed the right finm on 2 of my cichlids looking all beat up along with my plecos fins looking all jacked up. pls help.

Its perfectly possible that the coins in the water have caused an upset in your water paramters, however im not too sure what a US dime is made from, so cant be of much further help! I would imagine its some form of coated copper or nickel?

A US dime is 91.67 percent copper and 8.33 percent nickel. I know copper can be harmfull to fish but I did a water test and it all came out good.

It could be from the waterchange. Dissolved gasses in the water "condensed" on the fish (like dew on a leaf). I wouldnt worry too much about it unless the fish are acting off.
cheers

Drake said:

A US dime is 91.67 percent copper and 8.33 percent nickel. I know copper can be harmfull to fish but I did a water test and it all came out good.

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In this case i would revert to the above, its possibly just condesed O2....

Keep an eye over the next few days

loraxchick said:

It could be from the waterchange. Dissolved gasses in the water "condensed" on the fish (like dew on a leaf). I wouldnt worry too much about it unless the fish are acting off.
cheers

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I heard that that is very painful to fish and will kill them. Hopefully that is not the case.

Well its been a few day now and they started to look a little better but then my oscars fins started looking all tatered and my wife just text me and told me my pleco is dead. So i am going to pull some water out of my 50gal to put the fish into and do a 100% water change and clean on the 60gal unless some one thinks thats a bad idea

Make sure your filter media stays wet!

well bad news, I belive my fish has Bacterial External Infections, Columnaris. My ploco had little red bleading sores on him and now my Oscar has a big red sore on his head and one on his side. As well as my other fish having whitish discolered areas (photo attached) if they servive the night I need to fine some one in Mesa, Az that sells Furan 2.

if you look close on the top of his head you can see a redish pink area

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