Hello everyone, I have a question to ask on behalf of someone else.
A friend of mine has a very small tank (about 3.5 gallons I think) and I encouraged him to put a few small fish in it, like neon tetras for something. But he put six two inch long goldfish in there.:argue: The tank wasn’t cycled either. They seemed to be quite happy right up until they all developed dropsy (pine coning scales and all) and died within only a few weeks. He bought them from a store that another friend of mine swore never to go to because all of their fish are sick.
Anyway, he wants to try again with some smaller hardier fish from a different store. Or give up and give the tank to me. We need to clean the tank. How do you clean a tank whose occupants all died of dropsy? Is the disease-causing bacteria very hard to get rid of, or should we just get rid of the tank all together? In the tank there is a small internal carbon sponge filter, some plants and gravel.
If I were to completely clean the tank with chlorinated tap water, rinse the gravel and the filter with chlorinated water, and then fill it up with de-chlorinated water and dosed it with my medication, will this work?
The medication is a broad spectrum “cure all” whose active constituents are malachite green, aminacrine HCL and mafenide HCL, if that means anything to anyone.
I really want to make sure there is nothing left of the bad bacteria before more fish go in.
And so this doesn’t happen again, does anyone know what causes the bacterium that leads to dropsy?
A friend of mine has a very small tank (about 3.5 gallons I think) and I encouraged him to put a few small fish in it, like neon tetras for something. But he put six two inch long goldfish in there.:argue: The tank wasn’t cycled either. They seemed to be quite happy right up until they all developed dropsy (pine coning scales and all) and died within only a few weeks. He bought them from a store that another friend of mine swore never to go to because all of their fish are sick.
Anyway, he wants to try again with some smaller hardier fish from a different store. Or give up and give the tank to me. We need to clean the tank. How do you clean a tank whose occupants all died of dropsy? Is the disease-causing bacteria very hard to get rid of, or should we just get rid of the tank all together? In the tank there is a small internal carbon sponge filter, some plants and gravel.
If I were to completely clean the tank with chlorinated tap water, rinse the gravel and the filter with chlorinated water, and then fill it up with de-chlorinated water and dosed it with my medication, will this work?
The medication is a broad spectrum “cure all” whose active constituents are malachite green, aminacrine HCL and mafenide HCL, if that means anything to anyone.
I really want to make sure there is nothing left of the bad bacteria before more fish go in.
And so this doesn’t happen again, does anyone know what causes the bacterium that leads to dropsy?