Help!

[Drake]

Hi I need some help, about a week ago my son put a hand full of change into my 60gal cichlid tank. As soon as I noticed it I pulled all the change out or so I thought. I missed a dime that had got covered with gravel. I noticed my fish looking sick and they started getting a slimy film on them so I did a 50% water change and dug in the gravel and thats when I found the dime. I dont know what it is to treat it so I am asking for help. It is affecting all my fish but its most niticable on my albino tiger oscar. I have attched a pic of my oscar and you can see air bubbles stuck to the slime. I have also noticed the right finm on 2 of my cichlids looking all beat up along with my plecos fins looking all jacked up. pls help.

 

[Mowbz]

Its perfectly possible that the coins in the water have caused an upset in your water paramters, however im not too sure what a US dime is made from, so cant be of much further help! I would imagine its some form of coated copper or nickel?

 

[Drake]

A US dime is 91.67 percent copper and 8.33 percent nickel. I know copper can be harmfull to fish but I did a water test and it all came out good.

 

[loraxchick]

It could be from the waterchange. Dissolved gasses in the water "condensed" on the fish (like dew on a leaf). I wouldnt worry too much about it unless the fish are acting off.
cheers

 

[Mowbz]

A US dime is 91.67 percent copper and 8.33 percent nickel. I know copper can be harmfull to fish but I did a water test and it all came out good.

In this case i would revert to the above, its possibly just condesed O2....

Keep an eye over the next few days

 

[XeroTolerance]

It could be from the waterchange. Dissolved gasses in the water "condensed" on the fish (like dew on a leaf). I wouldnt worry too much about it unless the fish are acting off.
cheers

I heard that that is very painful to fish and will kill them. Hopefully that is not the case.

 

[Drake]

Well its been a few day now and they started to look a little better but then my oscars fins started looking all tatered and my wife just text me and told me my pleco is dead. So i am going to pull some water out of my 50gal to put the fish into and do a 100% water change and clean on the 60gal unless some one thinks thats a bad idea

 

[XeroTolerance]

Make sure your filter media stays wet!

 

[Drake]

well bad news, I belive my fish has Bacterial External Infections, Columnaris. My ploco had little red bleading sores on him and now my Oscar has a big red sore on his head and one on his side. As well as my other fish having whitish discolered areas (photo attached) if they servive the night I need to fine some one in Mesa, Az that sells Furan 2.

 

[Drake]

if you look close on the top of his head you can see a redish pink area

 

[Connershawzz]

How did this turn out

 

[Essjay]

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