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I’ll have to get some when I get home. Wife called me at work to say he was acting odd. She said erratic swimming and swimming on its side. I’m hoping this is a fluke. I don’t get how one day things are ok then the next it can be a complete 180. Checked water parameters again last night. Still...

Just to keep this updated: I'm treating tonight. My Levamisole showed up so shrimp get pulled tonight. Also my last red shiner is now showing signs of dying as of this morning, erratic swimming and sideways. With the main tank treatment going in tonight, Im not even pulling him to...

I've got a battery backup for the heater and air stone in my tank. It will hold long enough for me to fire up my generator. I have a portable, but it is back fed into my panel. If you buy an Interlock kit, it will remain code compliant doing it that way. https://interlockkit.com/

Found Levamisole with the Fritz brand and got it quick. So Im treating the shrimp with that separately. Thanks. man. It has been an interesting road I've learned a ton, but still feel lost at times. I have always had the mentality that I refuse to fail so I will keep adjusting and...

Oh. Awesome idea. Thank you. The second part I mean. If levamisole can treat the shrimp separately I’ll do that.

Going back to my initial issue. I have 2 Amano shrimp. I was going to take them out of the tank to treat the worms but it seems the worms can infect the shrimp as well unless I read bad info. So if I pull them and by chance they have an infection it will come back once I put three back in the...

Gotcha. Missed that part. It will be a bit easier to do that since I increased my ability to store my RO water. I bought additional trash cans to use for storing the water and can just let the RO run up to a float cut off.

I bought Fluval's new UV clarifier. Like others said, it doesn't stop anything in the tank, but it has slowed any spread I've had from keeping it out of the water column, but still only so effective as a preventative. I'm still happy that I got it. It's only one tool of many to try and combat...

For my water, GH and KH come out at 0 degree from the RO/DI so thats why I add the Equilibrium. Seachem root tabs have raised my GH from 5 degree to 8/9 so I'm not using root tabs any longer so I can keep it down to the 5/6 and meet more closely to the 150ppm you mentioned. PH comes out mid...

Here are a couple pics of the black.

My Nitrates were approaching upwards of 40ppm for a while. I've got them tamed at the ~10ppm now. My pic in post 4 shows the black, but I can get a better pic when I get home later. I'll have to trim a leaf and smell it to see about the odor and see how easily it wipes off. That's...

They definitely don't have enough light then. My current light is underpowered. The algae (green hair) is only now on 3 decorations that had it at the peak of my problem and I never was able to get it off. It hasn't spread and doesn't appear on the glass etc. I have added more plants and...

I honestly don't know. I am pretty sure all the fish our local shop gets are captive bred, but could be wrong. I still do feel that I had a couple jumpers. Some of my others in the tank currently will jump when I'm doing water changes and the 2 that disappeared were fine one day, them poof...

Fortunately, we did have the well analyzed. It is a closed top, 4" PVC well system so nothing go in it. I am almost positive it is leaching from nearby water systems. We live on a small peninsula, next to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The fact our well is brackish in nature is what is...

I think it was a mix. I went through really bad water issues when using tap water. I'm on a well and found out we had bad bacteria in the well, and I also had to run water through a softener. The water prior to was so hard it is considered brackish. That eventually led me to the RO/DI which...

Well. From the time of this last post to now, the Angel died. Went south really fast. We have been losing so many fish over the past months. I’m guessing the worms are really bad and I had no clue. Completely my fault. The meds arrive today. Got another larger trash can so I can produce enough...

He won’t eat. I’ve even tried worms as a good snack too. I’ll do the water change today and try to recover this guy. Crazy how I pulled him for a sore spot and discover worms. I’ll try to black out the bottom for now until I can get substrate.

You guys called it. Angel is acting not good all of a sudden and now anus is red with this string hanging out. Got the dewormer inbound but may be too late. Swimming upside down and clearly uncomfortable.

That’s what I was meaning. Just was curious if it could impact anything in the water. I ordered this, a https://a.co/d/heasBoR Flubendazole based med based on the page posted above so I can cover all bases. I will just have to pull the shrimp out of my tank for a while. Only have a few so will...

This is a really dumb question, but will a uv light help with any worms possibly in the water? I use the Fluval clarifier and it has been great for its purpose. Just wasn't sure if it helped in the case where I may have to do smaller changes and catching any misses.

I happen to notice those 2 as well through the picture. It was actually the first time I saw them and can't see them when looking directly at him. There are no inhabitants now that would do that, but we did have other Angels. We lost one after it became egg bound and assume an infection. The...

Thanks. I'm watching him in my 5g quarantine tank. Wouldn't eat this morning, but I think that is stress related from moving to the other tank. Just watching for now. I know its a tiny tank for an Angel so hopefully the wound heals up soon enough.

Update to your comment. Looks like a white string start of a bowel movement. Seems most of my fish do that. I feed flakes and thought that was part of why they can have the stringy poop. The strings never move on their own.

Good catch. I didn’t even see that.

I have lost more fish over the year getting into this hobby than I can count. Last Angel had a large sore and didn’t treat in time and it passed. I’ve had multiple fish develop crooked spines but no other symptoms of TB so didn’t think and still don’t think that’s the case. I’ve got Tetras that...

I did this one. Has been great as well. I bought the 100gpd system instead of the 50...

I went with a RO/DI system due to well water,. Not Nitrates in my case, but due to other issues that involved crazy PH spikes and basically brackish water coming out without treatment. I strip everything out now and remineralize. I use Seachem Equilibrium, Alkaline and Acid buffer, then...

I've used a Fluval 307 and 407. Great canisters and both quiet.

Water is PH 7.8 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate about 20ppm

Hey guys. As the picture shows. One of my Angels has a red patch on its side. I’m thinking injury but not sure. Sometimes the other angel nips at him but this one does it back. Other Angelfish doesn’t have any marks or issues. You can see it on the low right rear in the pic just above his fin

I love my Python. I only use it for vacuuming since my water is trash. After I vacuum/remove water, I have a seperate trash can i use to fill with RO/DI water and mineralize myself and add that back with a submersible pump.