Hi guys
Have 3 x amano shrimp which live in my mature community tank and have been doing so for the last 3 months with no problems.
However a few weeks ago I had an outbreak of fungus even though tank stats were all good and nothing new had changed. I put my 2 affected fish in my quarantine tank and treated them - 1 died the other recovered and I returned her to the main tank. That meant that my spare filter which is usually kept in my main tank for emergencies such as this had to be cleaned and dried out to make sure all infections couldnt survive and I was ready to put it back into my main tank to seed again.
However yesterday this I noticed that my Gourami looked swollen and had stringy poo and one of my tetras had fungus so I decided that I must take my shrimp out and treat the whole tank as there are obviously problems. My problem is they are now in a quarantiend uncycled tank. I know they are very sensitive to water conditions and I want my best chance of keeping them alive until such time that they can go back.
Can someone please advise me if im doing the right thing. I intend to do a 25% water change every day to keep ammonia at bay and to feed sparesely. Is there anything else i can do to increase my chances of them surviving? I put them in yesterday and they seem fine and are zooming around.
Have 3 x amano shrimp which live in my mature community tank and have been doing so for the last 3 months with no problems.
However a few weeks ago I had an outbreak of fungus even though tank stats were all good and nothing new had changed. I put my 2 affected fish in my quarantine tank and treated them - 1 died the other recovered and I returned her to the main tank. That meant that my spare filter which is usually kept in my main tank for emergencies such as this had to be cleaned and dried out to make sure all infections couldnt survive and I was ready to put it back into my main tank to seed again.
However yesterday this I noticed that my Gourami looked swollen and had stringy poo and one of my tetras had fungus so I decided that I must take my shrimp out and treat the whole tank as there are obviously problems. My problem is they are now in a quarantiend uncycled tank. I know they are very sensitive to water conditions and I want my best chance of keeping them alive until such time that they can go back.
Can someone please advise me if im doing the right thing. I intend to do a 25% water change every day to keep ammonia at bay and to feed sparesely. Is there anything else i can do to increase my chances of them surviving? I put them in yesterday and they seem fine and are zooming around.
