Well, after dealing with the whole neon issue, it appears that my worries have not yet ended.
I must have pissed off the universe somehow.
So, I'll start at the beginning. I got 2 new peacock gudgeons for xmas from a friend, who brought them up from TN. They were doing just dandy. I put them in the 10 gallon tank, with the other 3 gudgeons. Everything's fine. Next day, can't find one of them. I took all the decorations out, and nothing. No body. No gudgeon. I figure he either died and was eaten really really fast, or somehow jumped out of the 2 inch by 1 inch food port on the hood, and I'll find his crispy body in week or so. Okay, I can deal with that. A couple of days pass. I wake up this morning, I'm getting around for work at 6 am. I check in the tank real quick, and am horrified. The baby guppies are all at the bottom of the tank, obviously distressed, some dead. The gudgeons are at the top, not normal. And one gudgeon suddenly drifts out from behind the heater.... the fifth gudgeon. COVERED in columnaris. I almost threw up. He was still alive. At some point, the filter must have gotten overloaded, and either nitrite or ammo had spiked. I look at the other fish, and realize half the babies have pop eye or columnaris. The other gudgeons also have smaller amount of columnaris.
I have 15 minutes. Not enough time to do a WC. I pour Prime into the tank. I still have the 5 gal set up I had been treating the neons in, and I praise my laziness. I pour Prime into it, throw the sponge filter and bubbler back in and get the heater going. I pour hot water in to bring it up to temp. I throw the worst gudgeon in, holding back the bile in my throat. The water is still full of erythro, so I'm hoping that will help.
Now I have to go to work. Till 3. All I can think is that I'm definitely coming home to a tank of dead fish.
And, I realize I've forgotten to take my medication, which I need.
I wait till 10, then call the house, and finally get a hold of my bro, who brings my meds to me, and I explain to him how to do a WC. I tell him to take out anything dead, throw away all the plants, remove all the decorations, take out as much water as possible, dechlor and refill.
I have the best bro ever.
He does that, despite spilling a good amount of water and dead baby fish on the floor (which he left for me to clean up). He also got the erythro into both tanks.
So, I come home, and clean up dead baby fish. I also did another WC on both tanks, and added salt. The gudgeon I put in the smaller tank who was the worst this morning is actually much better. I put him back in the 10. One of the gudgeons in the 10 has gotten worse, so I put him in the 5 gal, along with another baby. I never counted how many babies I had, probably around 15 originally. I now have 4. No dead gudgeons yet, but the one looks pretty bad. All cherry shrimp are dead.
I am including photos of the gudgeon who is still very bad. Any help would be much appreciated.
I feel like a very bad aquarium owner right now.
I must have pissed off the universe somehow.
So, I'll start at the beginning. I got 2 new peacock gudgeons for xmas from a friend, who brought them up from TN. They were doing just dandy. I put them in the 10 gallon tank, with the other 3 gudgeons. Everything's fine. Next day, can't find one of them. I took all the decorations out, and nothing. No body. No gudgeon. I figure he either died and was eaten really really fast, or somehow jumped out of the 2 inch by 1 inch food port on the hood, and I'll find his crispy body in week or so. Okay, I can deal with that. A couple of days pass. I wake up this morning, I'm getting around for work at 6 am. I check in the tank real quick, and am horrified. The baby guppies are all at the bottom of the tank, obviously distressed, some dead. The gudgeons are at the top, not normal. And one gudgeon suddenly drifts out from behind the heater.... the fifth gudgeon. COVERED in columnaris. I almost threw up. He was still alive. At some point, the filter must have gotten overloaded, and either nitrite or ammo had spiked. I look at the other fish, and realize half the babies have pop eye or columnaris. The other gudgeons also have smaller amount of columnaris.
I have 15 minutes. Not enough time to do a WC. I pour Prime into the tank. I still have the 5 gal set up I had been treating the neons in, and I praise my laziness. I pour Prime into it, throw the sponge filter and bubbler back in and get the heater going. I pour hot water in to bring it up to temp. I throw the worst gudgeon in, holding back the bile in my throat. The water is still full of erythro, so I'm hoping that will help.
Now I have to go to work. Till 3. All I can think is that I'm definitely coming home to a tank of dead fish.
And, I realize I've forgotten to take my medication, which I need.
I wait till 10, then call the house, and finally get a hold of my bro, who brings my meds to me, and I explain to him how to do a WC. I tell him to take out anything dead, throw away all the plants, remove all the decorations, take out as much water as possible, dechlor and refill.
I have the best bro ever.
He does that, despite spilling a good amount of water and dead baby fish on the floor (which he left for me to clean up). He also got the erythro into both tanks.
So, I come home, and clean up dead baby fish. I also did another WC on both tanks, and added salt. The gudgeon I put in the smaller tank who was the worst this morning is actually much better. I put him back in the 10. One of the gudgeons in the 10 has gotten worse, so I put him in the 5 gal, along with another baby. I never counted how many babies I had, probably around 15 originally. I now have 4. No dead gudgeons yet, but the one looks pretty bad. All cherry shrimp are dead.
I am including photos of the gudgeon who is still very bad. Any help would be much appreciated.
I feel like a very bad aquarium owner right now.