Fish Dying

[Spooky76]

Have you removed the carbon filter before putting the treatments in, they remove alot of meds from the water ?
Just a thought. Hope you sort it out.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

hiya the stats for amonia is 0.1 Nitrate 10 Nitrite 0.1 and ph is 6.4 also i have two airstones the longer version so how do you increase the airation, i have added another filter at the weekend and up to now the fish seem a little better

Hm, ideally, the ammonia and nitrites should both be 0 but if the test kit is not the most accurate, then a reading of 0.1 ammonia or nitrites could just be an error- however i would do a small water change either way (maybe around 25%) just to be on the safe side as ammonia can have a similar effect on fish as what carbon monoxide has on us (remember to top up any meds lost by the water change too). Nitrates and ph sound absolutely fine though, just test ph every now and then to make sure no changes in ph are taking place (ph should be stable in the tank and not quickly change) .
Are the fish showing any odd behavior like flicking/rubbing/itching themselves of objects in the tank at all?

thanks for that, no the fish are not showing any odd behavior but what i did notice today is one of the balloon rams has a white spot like a grain of salt on its body and lower fin! i have heard of white spot, but if it is whitespot can you treat for that as well as other medications?

Hm i would personally not combine that many meds together, however the whitespot still needs to be treated. What i would advise doing is stopping the Interpet fungus and bacteria treatment, and use Pimafix instead (it will treat both fungal and bacterial infections the fish have, and is safer to mix with other meds) combined with "anti whitespot" by Interpet after a couple of large water changes have been done to help clear some of the old meds out of the tank.
Whitespot (also known as ich) looks like this;

http/www.fishjunkies.com/images/ich1.jpg

Whitespot is a parasite and the parasite has quite a few life cycles. Basically the parasite goes through cycles when it is present and visable on the fishes body, and cycles where it is free swimming in the water and not visable to the eye. Only when the parasite is swimming around in the water can it be killed off by meds. To speed up the life cycles of the parasite so it can be killed earlier by the meds, the fish should be treated with anti whitespot med ASAP and the temp of the tank slowly raised by around 1degree or so a day until the tank temp is around 29 degree's. Killing the whitespot takes around 2 weeks, but you should treat the fish for at least 3weeks and avoid buying any new fish for a further two weeks after the current fish have been treated to make sure the parasite is well and truly gone and is not gonna make a come back (as it can sometimes do when not treated for long enough) .

 

[dolphin2305]

Have you removed the carbon filter before putting the treatments in, they remove alot of meds from the water ?
Just a thought. Hope you sort it out.

The filters i have dont have carbon in, but thanks anyway.

 

[dolphin2305]

hiya the stats for amonia is 0.1 Nitrate 10 Nitrite 0.1 and ph is 6.4 also i have two airstones the longer version so how do you increase the airation, i have added another filter at the weekend and up to now the fish seem a little better

Hm, ideally, the ammonia and nitrites should both be 0 but if the test kit is not the most accurate, then a reading of 0.1 ammonia or nitrites could just be an error- however i would do a small water change either way (maybe around 25%) just to be on the safe side as ammonia can have a similar effect on fish as what carbon monoxide has on us (remember to top up any meds lost by the water change too). Nitrates and ph sound absolutely fine though, just test ph every now and then to make sure no changes in ph are taking place (ph should be stable in the tank and not quickly change) .
Are the fish showing any odd behavior like flicking/rubbing/itching themselves of objects in the tank at all?

thanks for that, no the fish are not showing any odd behavior but what i did notice today is one of the balloon rams has a white spot like a grain of salt on its body and lower fin! i have heard of white spot, but if it is whitespot can you treat for that as well as other medications?

Hm i would personally not combine that many meds together, however the whitespot still needs to be treated. What i would advise doing is stopping the Interpet fungus and bacteria treatment, and use Pimafix instead (it will treat both fungal and bacterial infections the fish have, and is safer to mix with other meds) combined with "anti whitespot" by Interpet after a couple of large water changes have been done to help clear some of the old meds out of the tank.
Whitespot (also known as ich) looks like this;

http/www.fishjunkies.com/images/ich1.jpg

Whitespot is a parasite and the parasite has quite a few life cycles. Basically the parasite goes through cycles when it is present and visable on the fishes body, and cycles where it is free swimming in the water and not visable to the eye. Only when the parasite is swimming around in the water can it be killed off by meds. To speed up the life cycles of the parasite so it can be killed earlier by the meds, the fish should be treated with anti whitespot med ASAP and the temp of the tank slowly raised by around 1degree or so a day until the tank temp is around 29 degree's. Killing the whitespot takes around 2 weeks, but you should treat the fish for at least 3weeks and avoid buying any new fish for a further two weeks after the current fish have been treated to make sure the parasite is well and truly gone and is not gonna make a come back (as it can sometimes do when not treated for long enough) .

Thankyou so much you have been a great help

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Thankyou so much you have been a great help

Glad to help . Keep us updated with the situation of your fish if you can, feel free to ask questions if you have any .