Dropsy Taking Over

[alex the bear]

A couple of days ago a female dwarf gourami of mine died as a cause of dropsy and now 3 of my 4 torpedoes are showing signs and so to is 1 of the danios I'm treating with interpet no9 and a dose of tonic salt in both main and hospital tanks but its really stressing me out, feel like I'm failing my fish

Iv made plenty of mistakes while setting this tank up and now thier coming round to bite me in the #17#####, last couple of weeks iv had a couple of ammonia spikes but I just put that down to having added a couple of new fish. Would my filters be matured yet? Been running the overhead Aquaone now for 4 months and the external tetratec for 2 months, both with the standard media that they came with. What else can I do?

In my 165ltr I have
8 three lined corys
4 torpedo barbs
6 zebra danios
4 turquoise rainbows
6 wagtail platys
1 dwarf gourami
2 opaline gourami
1 common pleco

Thanks

 

[sarah40011]

you made lots of mistakes? i did too with my first tank (not saying its your first tank) and lost a few to various things, lost my lovely male molly to dropsy. ive seen when people use interpet it helps a little but maybe its not strong enough? maybe maracyn two would be better. also you need to be doing regular water changes, that really is a great tonic for recovering fish, works as well as meds for some illnesses. good luck, hope your tank recovers

 

[alex the bear]

you made lots of mistakes? i did too with my first tank (not saying its your first tank) and lost a few to various things, lost my lovely male molly to dropsy. ive seen when people use interpet it helps a little but maybe its not strong enough? maybe maracyn two would be better. also you need to be doing regular water changes, that really is a great tonic for recovering fish, works as well as meds for some illnesses. good luck, hope your tank recovers

Yeah obvious mistakes like putting in a dozen fish a week after I got the tank, then feeding them the equivalent of a 5 course meal twice a day only doing water changes once a week (I probably had high everything at the time) and not really researching any of the fish I was buying. Thing is that was months ago and now I'm seriously addicted and, I think doing all the right things but now I'm losing fish

I'm currently changing 30% a day for the next 3 days then 30% everyother day for a week while constantly treating but iv been told by lfs that dropsy is a nightmare to get rid of, is this true and am I likely to loose all my fish?

Thanks for your reply

Alex

 

[AshleyMac]

In my experience, the best thing you can do would be water changes, meds don't seem to do a whole lot. Have you checked your nitrates as well? I had one of my girls come down with dropsy a week or so ago, figured out I wasn't preparing the nitrate test property and figured out I was way high. I did 50% water changes two days in a row and have been doing 25% per day since. Swelling is going down a little bit every day and she has started eating again. Generally it is said that once you see dropsy the damage is done, but I have cured a betta in the past. Just keep up your water changes and monitor that your water parameters are not changing too fast or you will shock your fish.