Well here goes my first post, and unfortunately it's not the sort I wanted to be posting!
Started my tropical aquarium a month ago, and introduced some neon tetra, x-ray tetra and a pleco. All was going well, and my nitrate, nitrite and ammonia levels seemed ok (Ph is maybe a little high at 7.2). At the weekend, I introduced 5 leopard and 5 zebra danio's, together with 6 new plants.
Yesterday I checked the nitrite, nitrate and ammonia levels, and they've increased a little. Ammonia is 0.25, and nitrite and nitrate are at 0.25 and 20 (sorry, but I can't remember which one is which yet with them being very similar names)
Anyway, one of the leopards had a sort of cotton wool like substance on its tail, and the tail appeared to disappeared a little, as if it had been eaten. When I look at the other zebras, they seem to have bits missing from their top fins too (the leopards seem fine).
The white cotton wool type stuff is also sat in little clumps on the bottom of the aquarium.
I also had a neon tetra die yesterday, and when removing it from the tank, I noticed that it was quite slimy.
Has anybody got any suggestions as to what it may be? I'm guessing the slimyness is slime disease, and the cotton wool type stuff on the danio was a fungus. However, I'm not sure where the cotton wool type stuff on the aquarium floor has come from.
What should I do about any treatments, what should I do to prevent it spreading, and what should I do to stop it happening again? Should I do a water change etc?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Started my tropical aquarium a month ago, and introduced some neon tetra, x-ray tetra and a pleco. All was going well, and my nitrate, nitrite and ammonia levels seemed ok (Ph is maybe a little high at 7.2). At the weekend, I introduced 5 leopard and 5 zebra danio's, together with 6 new plants.
Yesterday I checked the nitrite, nitrate and ammonia levels, and they've increased a little. Ammonia is 0.25, and nitrite and nitrate are at 0.25 and 20 (sorry, but I can't remember which one is which yet with them being very similar names)
Anyway, one of the leopards had a sort of cotton wool like substance on its tail, and the tail appeared to disappeared a little, as if it had been eaten. When I look at the other zebras, they seem to have bits missing from their top fins too (the leopards seem fine).
The white cotton wool type stuff is also sat in little clumps on the bottom of the aquarium.
I also had a neon tetra die yesterday, and when removing it from the tank, I noticed that it was quite slimy.
Has anybody got any suggestions as to what it may be? I'm guessing the slimyness is slime disease, and the cotton wool type stuff on the danio was a fungus. However, I'm not sure where the cotton wool type stuff on the aquarium floor has come from.
What should I do about any treatments, what should I do to prevent it spreading, and what should I do to stop it happening again? Should I do a water change etc?
Any help would be much appreciated.
