Sick Non Puffer
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Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Not2Brite
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Sick Non Puffer
I wasn't sure where to post this at so I chose the hospital. I have a 20 gallon tank. I bought 6 neon tetras and one cory cat. I have had my tank up about 4 weeks. I cycled my tank with Dr. Tim's Aquatics. Shortly after one of the neons died. I checked my pH, ammonia, and nitrate levels. They all came back fine. The pH is 7.5, no ammonia, no nitrates and no nitrites. So I thought maybe the fish didn't adjust very well. The next day another fish died. This went on for four days straight, a fish dying each day. I am now down to 2 neon tetras and the cory cat. I didn't change anything in the tank since I introduced the fish. I fed them once a day, and I changed 25% of my water. Could this be Neon tetra disease or could this be something else? From what I have found I could not find any cure if this is Neon tetra disease. It is only contagious to other tetras and not the cory cat. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Sick Non Puffer
What test kits are you using? There should be some nitrate in a cycled tank with fish.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Not2Brite
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Re: Sick Non Puffer
It is tetra laborrat test kit.Pufferpunk wrote:What test kits are you using? There should be some nitrate in a cycled tank with fish.
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Re: Sick Non Puffer
how did you cycle it again?
Was it with live bacteria? If not then it wasn't cycled and adding fish has possibly spiked the tank...
odd that your test kit is showing no nitrates in an apparently cycled tabk... means the test kit is not working...
Was it with live bacteria? If not then it wasn't cycled and adding fish has possibly spiked the tank...
odd that your test kit is showing no nitrates in an apparently cycled tabk... means the test kit is not working...
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Not2Brite
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Re: Sick Non Puffer
I used Dr. Tim's Aquatics, which is a live bacteria. It is similar to BioSpira.t1gerbee wrote:how did you cycle it again?
Was it with live bacteria? If not then it wasn't cycled and adding fish has possibly spiked the tank...
odd that your test kit is showing no nitrates in an apparently cycled tabk... means the test kit is not working...