sabrefish79
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OK so I'll try not to ramble on to long. A week ago my fish got really sick and started dying off. The tank is 150 gallons and the water tested fine. Ammonia 0, ph 6.8, nitrite 0 and nitrate 10-2- ppm. I do weekly water changes and feed my fish a vareity of dry and frozen food and veggies. Anyhow my 2 white/black spotted catfish died first, then less the 5 hours later my 3 bala sharks died (all 5 plus inches) then my 2 red tipped tinfoil barbs died with in 10 more hours. At this point I pulled everyone out of the big tank and put the in hospital tanks and added medicine for ICH - I lost a few tetra's at this point and then my clown loaches started dying off one at a time. Day 3 I put everyone in a new hospital tank that I treated with salt. Many of the fish were looking kind of fuzzy and there fins were becoming tattered. OK so now my few survivors are doing better today - they are still being treated with a warmer tank and salt. So today I finally got around to emptying the big tank and I noticed worms kind of standing up from the rocks. The are reddish in color and some are over an inch - I googled worms and I don't think they are planera - could this be what killed my fish? I haven't had any problems before and I even had rubbernose plecos lay eggs and hatch babies in the tank just a few days before this happened. I think it is weird that my biggest fish died first. I haven't seen any worms on the fish but they died so quickly and I must admit I didn't look to closely at the bodies - this is the first time we have had any problems - I loved my fish but right now I'm ready to give up. If I can't figure out what went wrong I don't know how to protect them in the future. The only thing we did this month was add algae eating shrimp and a peice of bog log - that we cleaned. Any help would be great.
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