Angelfish w/fin rot

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First off, my 10 Gal quarantine tank has finally cycled and the parameters are all 0. Yes, even the nitrates.

I ordered some Gold Veil Tail Angelfish (4) and Panda Cory Cats (6) from Live Aquaria. On receipt two angels and two cories were DOA. Called and complained and "one time only" they reshipped the fish. Of course, I blamed it on their packaging. It was 7 degrees here in ND the morning I received them. Next morning three more cories were dead.

The next day (last Thursday) I received the replacement fish - packaged much better. Angels were fine but one Cory DOA. Other cory dead by the next morning - I think I give up on Panda's!

Anyway, I started noticing that one of the angels tail fin was getting smaller and smaller finally down to nothing. Poor thing died along with another. I hadn't seen any of the other picking on them but....

Last night, one of the remaining ones tail was also becoming ragged and sparse so I finally figured out that something else must be wrong. (Yes, I'm a little slow!) I did a 25% - 30% wc last night and again this morning. At noon I went to LFS and picked up Melafix (Hopefully not too late to save the remaining ones). From experience, can anyone tell me how long it takes to work? Provided they are still alive, I will add another dose tomorrow. Should I also do another wc? The bottle says to continue to dose for seven days, which I will do. But it also say to dose for three days, whenever you buy new fish or handle your old. Does anyone do this? I'm tempted to start especially with the death rate I'm having.

Anyway, would appreciate hearing everyone's thoughts.

Thanks
Connie
 
I use melafix on my fish and it should show noticeable improvements very quickly.

I've noticed it will make the smaller holes disappear and you should see clear fin regrowth within 24hr I'd say, if not hours. It seems to work miracles, especially if you catch it quickly.

I use it whenever a fish's fins get injured and when adding new fish (3 doses).
 
please post the water parameters a 0,0,0 is indicative of clean water but generally a tank that is cycled will show nitrates in the readings with ammonia and nitrite at 0.
the fins can burn away for several reasons..fin rot is usualy indicative of a problem with the water..ammonia for instance will burn the fins and is commonm with angels that have been in shipping for an extended period of time.(2-3 days shipping)

this will heal with super clean water = many small water changes daily.once we can see the water parameters then we can move on to other viable issues.

some cases I have discovered that protozoa can be related to what appears to be fin rot.
 
Tank parameter are 0,0,0. Earlier I had sky rocketing ammonia, which gave way to sky rocketing nitrites, which gave way to some nitrates the tank had no fish in it for approximately two weeks. Then just before the new fish arrived I did a partial water change and when I tested last night the readings were 0,0,0.

Since the treatment, I lost more. I am down to one angel and one panda cory. The angel is swimming around fine, so far. Hopefully, he will survive.

When I was at my LFS, I looked and it looked like they had some nice gold angels. Should I wait the full 7 day treatment before I add any other fish?

Hypothetically speaking, say the last angel dies, can I restock immediately or should I continue to treat the tank (cory) for the full course?

Connie
 
I'd wait until you can figure out what it is being caused by or that you know the problem is gone, before adding more fish.
 
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