tanks not lookin good, fish dieing and getting sick.....

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aquatic-Bizkut

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well here is another thread from the stale bizkut, but i have some real emergencies here, my tanks arent lookin toooooo good, they are all cycling, but its leading to deaths and hurting my fish,

in my 20 gallon which i got first and is the furthest in the cycle i have had around 4 fish die, just scooped out a male guppy and am afraid i will have to scoop out one of my guppys tomorow morning, he has developed a white spot, and it has completely rotted his skin, and its only getting worse, all my other fish i have in there are doing ok as far as i know, (2 rasboras, 2 black skirted tetras, 1 dwarf guarmi, and 1 platty (not counting the other)

so i thought i would buy some ich tablets that fizz and desolve into your tank curing parasites and bad things like ich..... should i get it??

my readings for the 20 gallon as follows

ph-8
amonia-0
nitrite-5 ppm

in my 25 gallon everything seems fine, i have 6 tiger barbs, and 1 red tailed shark the only problem is that there might be a tiny white spot on top of the red tail fin.... that is it everything else seems fine but it seems like it is in a cycle as well

ph- 8
amonia- 1
nitrite- 0.5

please help me fix this, becuase i really need these tanks to heal, i have been doing daily water changes, and putting in aquarium salt i also just barely purchased, AmQuel plus it says it removes nitrate, nitrite, and amonia plus clorine, and chloramine......

should i use it now, or in the morning

what should i do to cure this mess????

also my 10 gallon has 2 puffers, i put in enough bio-spira to cycle the tank, so i added the puffers in right after that and a couple of days later added two otto's, i found one dead this morning, and the levels are high on nitrite and others..... what should i do for that tank???



please help me........
:byebye: :byebye: :byebye: :byebye: :/ :/
 
do back to back 30-50% water changes on all your tanks and keep testing until your ammonia and nitrite levels are under .25. do this daily.

are you conditioning the added water with amquel or the tank water? using anything that wipes out all ammonia will make the cycle take longer, there still needs to be trace amounts of it until the bacteria load can handle it by itself.

what kind of puffers do you have? most are pretty sensitiveand should only be put into completely sycled tanks. the puffers may have killed the oto. keep testing and doing water changes for this one too.

i'm no expert on fish diseases, but ich is lots of little white spots all over the fish. rotting flesh is either burning from too much ammonia (esp around gills) or some kind of fungus. also to treat most things you have to take the carbon out of your filter for the duration of treatment and unless you empty whatever filter packet you are using and then put it back you're going to reduce the bacteria even more and make it take longer. deal with water quality issues first, then if nothing changes treat your fish
 
yes well im going to do a few water changes on all my tanks today, and add the amquel plus...... plus clean off some of the ornaments, i will post my results in a bit

but should i put in the amqual plus, it says it removes nitrate, nitrite, amonia, clorhine chlorimine and stuff, one teaspone removes 1.2 ppm of amonia, 2 ppm of nitrite, and 13ppm of nitrate, it would take one teaspone per 10 gallons..... so should i put that in, or would that just ruin my tank and start another cycle all over that will kill all my fish???
 
Someone may correct me if I'm wrong But I believe that Amquel plus is one of the dechlorinators that binds ammonia into ammonium. This would make it available to your bacteria without compromising your fish. in other words use the Amquel it won't hurt your cycle. Water changes are still the best defense against everything nasty in your water column, but things like prime and amquel plus will help your efforts between water changes.
Dave
 
ok i will wait for a few more replys to make sure it wont just delete my cycle completely before i put it in, but i like your point of view, and i will most likely add it

i just made 50% water changes in all my tanks, and added tonz of dechlorinators..... i will probably add amquel plus in later... i have heard good and bad things about it mostly bad right now...
 
The white spot on the tip of the sharks dorsal fin is suppose to be there. at least on some this is common.
 
Just a tid-bit...
Dave usually has good advice.
Aquatic, I second what Dave said.
 
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