vmsyvert
New Member
Hi,
I have a problem with two different tanks... My five gallon was previously occupied by four corydoras, and two black skirt tetras. this was a happy healthy tank... I realized that was not fair to them however, because the tetras are schooling fish, and need more than two, and it was already overstocked. I did not have the money to buy a huge tank, so setteled for the next best thing. I bought a ten gallon tank, and a few more fish. I now have the ten gallon tank occupied by four black skirt tetras, a frog (one died
), and i think the other is either an otto or a chinese algae eater. the parameters were way messed up in this tank, because i was stupid, and i put all those fish in at once, and i apolagize... I think that's why my frog died... i checked the parameters about a week ago when i saw my suckerfish had redder gills than before, and the ammonia had been spiked dangorously high... (i only have test strips, but it was showing between .5 and 3.0) the rest were relatively normal. I then added jungle ammonia clear, checked again, and it was still high, and the box said it was safe to do a double dose and it was between .25 and .5 after that... My algae eater still has reddish gills, but it is looking better... Hopefully that tank is doing better...
In my 5 gallon tank, i had five neon tetras, and four bronze corydoras (two were albino if it matters) the corydoras are fine, and it was an established tank for almost a year, and i've been changing the filter every month, and doing partial (25%) water changes every two weeks it was a healthy tank... Previously, i had white clouds (they died while in transit for winter bresk) in with my betta (he died of many diseases that were present when i bought him) and the corydoras that are still in the tank.Once those other fish died, i did a 80% water change, and added 3 plattys and the two black skirts.the black skirts unfortunately ate my plattys, and we are back to where we started the post. I moved the black skirts, and added 5 neon tetras 3 of which died this week, and were added over the weekend. the other two are acting very strange. the water parameters were 0 ammonia, nitrate 40, nitrite .5-1.0, hardness 75-150, alkalinity 40-80, and ph 6.2-6.8... i put the two remaining neons in a cup with water from the other tank, hoping it was just the water. no chemicals were added to the 5 gal tank, and the corys have been acting sluggish. It is warm here, but the thermometer says it is within normal range. The neons have displayed a loss of the blue color, and they have been separating from the school and swimming erratically before death... I looked online and i found neon tetra disease which looks to be a perfect fit, but my sister got neons from the same tank along with glo lights, and they are doing fine... shehas had no deaths, and no sicknesses in her tank, and I think that if i got fish that were sick when i got them, then hers would be sick too... especially with neon tetra disease... Is it possible to get it from an uninfected tank?? i have seen green spots on my white porcalin decoration, it looks kinda like algae, and i'm not sure if that could have caused it either...
If you got to here, thank you very much for reading this much, and taking this much time out of your life, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have a problem with two different tanks... My five gallon was previously occupied by four corydoras, and two black skirt tetras. this was a happy healthy tank... I realized that was not fair to them however, because the tetras are schooling fish, and need more than two, and it was already overstocked. I did not have the money to buy a huge tank, so setteled for the next best thing. I bought a ten gallon tank, and a few more fish. I now have the ten gallon tank occupied by four black skirt tetras, a frog (one died
), and i think the other is either an otto or a chinese algae eater. the parameters were way messed up in this tank, because i was stupid, and i put all those fish in at once, and i apolagize... I think that's why my frog died... i checked the parameters about a week ago when i saw my suckerfish had redder gills than before, and the ammonia had been spiked dangorously high... (i only have test strips, but it was showing between .5 and 3.0) the rest were relatively normal. I then added jungle ammonia clear, checked again, and it was still high, and the box said it was safe to do a double dose and it was between .25 and .5 after that... My algae eater still has reddish gills, but it is looking better... Hopefully that tank is doing better...In my 5 gallon tank, i had five neon tetras, and four bronze corydoras (two were albino if it matters) the corydoras are fine, and it was an established tank for almost a year, and i've been changing the filter every month, and doing partial (25%) water changes every two weeks it was a healthy tank... Previously, i had white clouds (they died while in transit for winter bresk) in with my betta (he died of many diseases that were present when i bought him) and the corydoras that are still in the tank.Once those other fish died, i did a 80% water change, and added 3 plattys and the two black skirts.the black skirts unfortunately ate my plattys, and we are back to where we started the post. I moved the black skirts, and added 5 neon tetras 3 of which died this week, and were added over the weekend. the other two are acting very strange. the water parameters were 0 ammonia, nitrate 40, nitrite .5-1.0, hardness 75-150, alkalinity 40-80, and ph 6.2-6.8... i put the two remaining neons in a cup with water from the other tank, hoping it was just the water. no chemicals were added to the 5 gal tank, and the corys have been acting sluggish. It is warm here, but the thermometer says it is within normal range. The neons have displayed a loss of the blue color, and they have been separating from the school and swimming erratically before death... I looked online and i found neon tetra disease which looks to be a perfect fit, but my sister got neons from the same tank along with glo lights, and they are doing fine... shehas had no deaths, and no sicknesses in her tank, and I think that if i got fish that were sick when i got them, then hers would be sick too... especially with neon tetra disease... Is it possible to get it from an uninfected tank?? i have seen green spots on my white porcalin decoration, it looks kinda like algae, and i'm not sure if that could have caused it either...
If you got to here, thank you very much for reading this much, and taking this much time out of your life, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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