Bruce Leyland-Jones
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Currently, you shouldn't.
If you give them fertiliser, in ANY form, why would they need to consume fish waste?
Random new guppy death!!
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If you give them fertiliser, in ANY form, why would they need to consume fish waste?
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Bettaguy08
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Ok I just barley noticed this but I saw one of my guppies with half of there tail has no color?!?! And this one too!!! What is happening.
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Looks like fin rot
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Bettaguy08
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It just happened today, yesterday they still had color in there tail what should I do.
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Bruce Leyland-Jones
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That does look like a bacterial infection might've taken hold.
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Bettaguy08
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What should I even do with both of these fish. And I did a water test and still 0 nitrites everything was fine.
Bruce Leyland-Jones
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It has nothing to do with your water parameters, as such.
You did read my post (#17) where I made suggestions as to what you should do. As far as I know, you got some plants? But nothing about the salt?
What I said in Post #17 is now bearing fruit, with overcrowded and over-stressed fish succumbing to stuff that they would normally just shrug off.
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No I do not have the plants yet, I wanted to know what I needed for them before i get them, and I totally missed the part we’re you said to add salt, I didn’t read it cause i saw the part where you said I can put plants and focused on that, sorry, but I actually have already have aquarium salt so I will do that right now. Before I do it though it will not affect my neritre snail right?
Edit: unfortunately the one that had color fading just died
I’m still gonna put the aquarium salt in though
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The fish weren't healthy when you got them.
PetSmart fish often aren't healthy. I got these two scrawny weaklings in quarantine right now and am not sure how they will fare. They are from PetSmart as well. Compare them with the Asian shop fish. Big box store fish are often full of bacteria, parasites, and other diseases when you get them. Some make it, some don't.
I suspect this has little to do with your water quality or their environment , and a TON to do with the fish themselves. You may not be able to save any of them. It does look bacterial in nature. Salt will probably not cure them - it looks pretty advanced. I would be reaching for something stronger.
Plants and all that will not help them now - there is disease spreading and it won't magically reverse just because you put some plants in.
PetSmart fish often aren't healthy. I got these two scrawny weaklings in quarantine right now and am not sure how they will fare. They are from PetSmart as well. Compare them with the Asian shop fish. Big box store fish are often full of bacteria, parasites, and other diseases when you get them. Some make it, some don't.
I suspect this has little to do with your water quality or their environment , and a TON to do with the fish themselves. You may not be able to save any of them. It does look bacterial in nature. Salt will probably not cure them - it looks pretty advanced. I would be reaching for something stronger.
Plants and all that will not help them now - there is disease spreading and it won't magically reverse just because you put some plants in.
Bruce Leyland-Jones
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1 tbsp per 3 gallon.No I do not have the plants yet, I wanted to know what I needed for them before i get them, and I totally missed the part we’re you said to add salt, I didn’t read it cause i saw the part where you said I can put plants and focused on that, sorry, but I actually have already have aquarium salt so I will do that right now. Before I do it though it will not affect my neritre snail right?
Edit: unfortunately the one that had color fading just died
Dissolve the salt in tank water, before adding it to the tank.
The nerites should be fine.
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Bettaguy08
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I am about to add it, and I just realized the dead fish I just found isn’t even the one with the faded fins, it was a whole another one. The one with faded fins is going crazy right now.
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Bettaguy08
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That’s what the one of the guys said when I first posted this. I 100% agree, probably never getting fish from there agian. I don’t know what to even do at this point.
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Just removed the one that was going crazy, I couldn’t look at it anymore, it looked like if a fish could have mad cow disease. Meanwhile my otocinclus that looks litteraly 10x better than ever other fish in my tank even known he/she doesn’t have any other otocinclus with him/her.
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Well both of them died now.
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