Hi there,
I am new to this forum and looking for some help as the employees at my local petstore just keeping pointing me to buy things. This is my first tank, and have learned tons but obviously have a lot more to learn.
I have had my tank set up for about 5 months. Within the first 2 months, I added 6 tetras, 2 dwarf frogs, and two tiny corydoras. Oh and a small pleco. The tank was cycled, and water was perfect and everyone in it was healthy as could be!
I decided to add in 2 blue gourami about a month ago. Everything was fine up until about last week.
A few days ago, I noticed one of the gourami had a red spot. Looked like it was fighting so I let it be (thinking it would heal, not knowing that you have to treat fish with open sores). Then a day later, I came home to a dead tetra! I assumed maybe the gourami killed it. So i assumed maybe there was just some stress or bad water in the tank. I did a 50% water change. Water was cloudy for a bit then went back somewhat normal but still not as clear as usual. Nope, because then 2 days ago, I noticed one of the tetras (diamond tetra) was breathing rapidly and it's gills were extremely open. Right away, did some research, thought it was gill flukes. I went to the petstore and told them about the sore on the blue gourami and the fins on the diamond tetra. I bought some API Melafix. Started treating the tank 2 days ago. It is helping healing the one red spot on the gourami, but now there is another spot that looks infected and it's not getting better. I have another tetra now showing signs of gill fluke. Since the 50% water change and the starting of the 7 day treatment of melafix, all of my fish are showing signs of sickness. They are rapid breathing. Not to active. The little cory cats usually swim around the bottom non stop. They just stay in one spot now and don't move. I see ONE little white spot on one of them... could that be the start of something else too? Ick? The frogs are shedding, which means high ammonia, but yet I just did a 50% change. The water is still cloudy after that water change and usually it clears up after a few hours. I was told to take my carbon out of my filter as it will filter out the medicine, but my oh my tank is just a mess now. It was going to perfect. Can I do water changes while treating? And how to I keep my good bacteria up? I'm just lost and losing hop that I may lose my whole fish tank and have to restart and that I'll be a fish murderer if all of these fish die because of something that could have been fixed/prevented. Help!!!!
I am new to this forum and looking for some help as the employees at my local petstore just keeping pointing me to buy things. This is my first tank, and have learned tons but obviously have a lot more to learn.
I have had my tank set up for about 5 months. Within the first 2 months, I added 6 tetras, 2 dwarf frogs, and two tiny corydoras. Oh and a small pleco. The tank was cycled, and water was perfect and everyone in it was healthy as could be!
I decided to add in 2 blue gourami about a month ago. Everything was fine up until about last week.
A few days ago, I noticed one of the gourami had a red spot. Looked like it was fighting so I let it be (thinking it would heal, not knowing that you have to treat fish with open sores). Then a day later, I came home to a dead tetra! I assumed maybe the gourami killed it. So i assumed maybe there was just some stress or bad water in the tank. I did a 50% water change. Water was cloudy for a bit then went back somewhat normal but still not as clear as usual. Nope, because then 2 days ago, I noticed one of the tetras (diamond tetra) was breathing rapidly and it's gills were extremely open. Right away, did some research, thought it was gill flukes. I went to the petstore and told them about the sore on the blue gourami and the fins on the diamond tetra. I bought some API Melafix. Started treating the tank 2 days ago. It is helping healing the one red spot on the gourami, but now there is another spot that looks infected and it's not getting better. I have another tetra now showing signs of gill fluke. Since the 50% water change and the starting of the 7 day treatment of melafix, all of my fish are showing signs of sickness. They are rapid breathing. Not to active. The little cory cats usually swim around the bottom non stop. They just stay in one spot now and don't move. I see ONE little white spot on one of them... could that be the start of something else too? Ick? The frogs are shedding, which means high ammonia, but yet I just did a 50% change. The water is still cloudy after that water change and usually it clears up after a few hours. I was told to take my carbon out of my filter as it will filter out the medicine, but my oh my tank is just a mess now. It was going to perfect. Can I do water changes while treating? And how to I keep my good bacteria up? I'm just lost and losing hop that I may lose my whole fish tank and have to restart and that I'll be a fish murderer if all of these fish die because of something that could have been fixed/prevented. Help!!!!