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wow... these look incredible... trying to look beyond TB

Alice B said:
However if TB and neon tetra disease have anything in common, both being pretty much incurable, The first tank I infected with neon tetra disease was also the first one I treated, my hex tank. I removed the remaining fish, I think I pulled the live plants, dumped a cup of Clorox in it and let it run 24 hours thru undergravel pumps everything. Drained, rinsed a couple times, used a LOT of chlorine remover and restarted the tank, when I realized the disease was in all the rest it gave me a place to put my immune guppies and plecos, after a quarantine in a rubbermaid tub or something for a couple of days. I tore the rest of the tanks down, a couple never went back up
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They are both bacteria but are completely different. Mycobacteria have a waxy coating that protects them from chemicals, medications, and drying out. Neon Disease can be treated and the bacteria causing it doesn't have anything to protect it so it can be killed quite easily.
 
Colin_T said:
They are both bacteria but are completely different. Mycobacteria have a waxy coating that protects them from chemicals, medications, and drying out. Neon Disease can be treated and the bacteria causing it doesn't have anything to protect it so it can be killed quite easily.
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I was working with a lab that develops fish medicines who told me it was incurable. But i bought meds and tried combinations and while neon tetra disease can be treated, all treatments seem to basically fail. the tank becomes infected, gravel, surfaces, filters, add clean fish, get sick fish. Kills gouramis, tetras, loaches, more. I'm not going for a phd in fish diseases. I have bought about 10 fish since the disaster and I am deciding whether to ever buy another one.
 
Alice B said:
I was working with a lab that develops fish medicines who told me it was incurable. But i bought meds and tried combinations and while neon tetra disease can be treated, all treatments seem to basically fail. the tank becomes infected, gravel, surfaces, filters, add clean fish, get sick fish. Kills gouramis, tetras, loaches, more. I'm not going for a phd in fish diseases. I have bought about 10 fish since the disaster and I am deciding whether to ever buy another one.
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Have you got any pictures of the sick fish?
 
I think I’m going to buy a new tank… 2 fish left, lost one of the bushies…. so resistant or no, you do the math… got one bushie, and one rainbow left… at this point, my biggest loss, is going to be losing the dozen 9 month old pothos adapted to the tank, and growing great right now
 
Colin_T said:
Have you got any pictures of the sick fish?
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Not anymore. That ws 2020. The gouramis just gradually stayed at the bottom of the tank, the neons looked melted, it started with them. Fish that were in with them showed no symptoms, i moved them to the 55 and except for plecos and guppies i gradually lost the tank. i may have notes or photos somewhere. My guppies and plecos were immune. I no longer buy fish.
Magnum Man said:
I think I’m going to buy a new tank… 2 fish left, lost one of the bushies…. so resistant or no, you do the math… got one bushie, and one rainbow left… at this point, my biggest loss, is going to be losing the dozen 9 month old pothos adapted to the tank, and growing great right now
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just pot the pothos. In dirt, hang in a window. Take a cutting when you start a new tank.
 
The hard part to give up, is the transition from a dirt plant to aqueous takes several months, that the plant kind of goes dormant, then boom, it goes into jungle mode… which these plants just got there a month or so ago… the fish are dying, so I’ve already given them up.., the plants are just starting to get to the thriving point
 
Just got a great deal on a 55 gallon tank only, from the semi local pet store… they have to order it in… I’ll have to put down the remaining pretty rainbow… but the sooner the last 2 are gone, the sooner I can start draining the old tank
 
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