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I started a 5 gallon tank a few days ago that will house my swordtail fry, right now they're still in my 53 gallon in a breeder box. I dosed with Prime and Stability the first night along with some fish food. The next day I took the old media from my HOB filter on my other 5 gallon tank and...

The cloudiness has went away. In fact, two weeks ago I had to treat my tank again, only this time with Expel-P (levamisole) because one of my fish had camallanus worms. The tank got really cloudy the next day and cleared up little by little throughout the week. The fish was much better the...

They are all plastic except for the two Anubia's attached to the fake log.

Do you recommend that I vacuum the gravel during these water changes or just replace the water?

Thanks, it's just that I've never experienced cloudy water for this long which is why I was concerned, I just remember getting cloudy water for a few days around the 1st week of starting the nitrogen cycle. I've had freshwater and saltwater tanks all my life, just took a break from it for the...

When I perform my water changes, I also vacuum the gravel. I may not get to every spot in the tank, some places are hard to get to, but this tank also hasn't been running for very long and I don't have a lot of fish. As you can see from the pics I attached, the diatoms are starting to...

No, the water does not smell.

My tank completed it's nitrogen cycle about 2 months ago. It's a 53 gallon tank with a Fluval 307 canister filter. I had purchased four pearl gouramis and 5 corys that I discovered about a week later had some ich. I treated the tank with Paraguard, first time using it. I dosed 26 mL daily...

So I ended up euthanizing the two sunfish with clove oil and will sanitize the aquarium, heater, and canister filter with bleach. I've already thrown out the driftwood and live plants. I plan to do the same with the gravel. This weekend I'll take the tank out in the garage and use a...

What ratio of bleach to water would you use? How long to run the tank with the bleach solution and how would I know of all the bleach is removed? I won't put these fish back in any body of water. 😀. I'm their last hope for survival.

What method do you recommend to nuke the tank? Bleach? Obviously I will need to throw away the wood and rocks because they're porous, but do I rinse out the tank and then fill the empty tank with a bleach/water mix with the heater and canister filter running to get everything clean? The pond...

Wanted to provide an update. No change on the parasites, they are still attached to the fish. During my water change this weekend I was going to increase the salt ratio to 1 Tbsp per 2 gallons of water in the tank. However, after my water change was complete, I redid the math in my head and...

I will, my main concern is the health of the fish and getting rid of these parasites for good.

I did a water change last night and did 1 Tbsp per 3 gallons, so 18 Tbsp total. I'll keep everyone up to date on their progress.

Is 1 tbsp per 5 gallons enough? According to this site I should probably be doing 1 tbsp per 2 gallons or maybe even 1 gallon? https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/aquarium-salt-for-sick-fish Thoughts?

I will try the salt tonight. Does it have to be rock salt? Isn't that what you put on your driveway to melt ice? Will table salt not work?

I had 4 in there and these two were constantly being attacked so I removed the two bullies.

Didn't know there was a plant boost setting.

I'm battling excessive diatoms in this tank right now too, not off to a great start with this expensive tank setup

They don't get along very well. Not that they fight constantly but each one has taken half the tank and they're constantly trying to show their dominance by putting their gills out towards each other like a Betta does. They still eat very well and get excited for the food guy when I approach...

Should I take each driftwood out and scrub them off with a new toothbrush, trying to get all the fungus off as possible?

Ok, but don't they eventually lose out to green algae and plants? Maybe I'm not leaving my lights on long enough, or maybe too long. I have a fluval aquasky. Sunrise is set for an hour, then 8 hours of normal light, then an hour of sunset.

Diatoms is not algae from what I've read, I don't seem to have any algae in the tank. I can't stop feeding my fish but I guess I could hold back some and see what happens.

Thanks, that's why I'm asking. It's a 53 gallon tank but I change out 10 gallons of water per water change. So should I dissolve enough salt in my 10 gallons I'm adding back for 53 gallons of water (10 Tbsp), or just 2 Tbsp salt for the 10 gallons of new water I'm adding back?

I vacuum the substrate too during every water change.

So how much salt should I add if it's a 53 gallon tank but changing 10 gallons of water?

Do you suggest 2 heaped tablespoons of rock salt per 5 gallons as someone else suggested earlier then? How long should I wait to do a water change after adding salt? Should I dose with salt again after so many days of the parasites don't die?

Does the salt kill the ones on the fish too? Will it kill the beneficial bacteria in the tank? Should I remove all the plants from the tank if the salt will kill them, I wouldn't want to contribute to more organic waste in the tank from dying plants.

The fungus started on the wood, it's spider wood and I did boil it initially to remove tannins and fungus before I set up the tank. I do a 20% water change weekly and ammonia, nitrites are 0 and nitrates are less than 5ppm. They do have a protein rich diet, I feed them a mix of canned meal...

Isn't the source usually silicate in a new tank? Or are you suggesting I test my tap water to see how silicate is already there?

My kids really want a tank with native fish they've caught. I would just rather keep those two fish and deal with it I guess.

Did the salt kill the ones attached to the fish too?

My tank has been running for a month, and this brown stuff (Diatoms) seems really out of control. I've read that it will eventually go away as the tank matures, but just want to make sure that this is normal because my tank looks really bad. In the past with tanks I've had, they were always...