One side of face on acei looking white ear eye and mouth.

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I meant to say near not ear. Going to have water tested again at local fish emporeum. This fish looked fine on the face yesterday. I've been treating tank with pimafix for 4 days now. Four days ago fish had alittle whittish fuzz on chest. At that time i had a kenyi that had a white fuzz like material on mouth and has since died. The material scapped and mostly fell off before it died though after i was treating with pimafix. Any ideas?
I only have 8 young fish in a 55g with whisper 60 and extra air being pumped in.
I Know u might not be able to help me much intill i give tank parmeters.
But maybe someone on this forum may have had a similar situation. Thanks.
 
sounds like you have a fungus problem...pimafix and melafix with pristine water parameters would help; I don't know if there is a strong antifungal agent available near you. pics would help.

however, we can't say that's its a serious fungal problem that's killing them as opposed to something which could resolve with good parameters, and is secondary to poor parameters, without knowing your parameters for Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate - get yourself a good liquid drop test kit, API make a great one, and you will save yourself a lot of time and worry.

how long by the way is the tank set up ? cycled ?
 
Should i stick it out and finish out the bottle of the pimafix though? Tested my water for ammonia with test strips from mardel. Test showed 1-2 colors off from what would be zero. It's been like that a while though. Hard to tell exactly. I Will get me good test kit at end of month. I hope its not to late
 
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I was told that with proper tank cycling with the right filtration, the tank should maintain itself , thus keeping my parameters near normal. Is this true? If so what would i be doing wrong if my levels happened to be off? I did have a smaller fish die and never found body. Could that put off alot of amonia and cause fungus. Thanks for help and patience. I'm getting fustrated.
 
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I was told that with proper tank cycling with the right filtration, the tank should maintain itself , thus keeping my parameters near normal.

yes and no - you would still need to do the water changes weekly, but you say that you are doing 40 -50% so no problem there. otherwise a stable tank will stay just that, stable, unless something happens or doesn't happen that causes a lot of the bacteria to die, i.e. the biological cycle is not functioning.


how did you cycle it ?

Is this true? If so what would i be doing wrong if my levels happened to be off?

we don't know that your levels are on or off, without a good test kit.

I did have a smaller fish die and never found body. Could that put off alot of amonia and cause fungus. Thanks for help and patience. I'm getting fustrated.

yes. fish dieing will rot and often cause a spike in ammonia and therefore nitrite if not removed

ammonia poisoning in acute cases causes actual burns, internally and externally. in chronic cases it will greatly weaken fish and make them extremely susceptible to illnesses which they otherwise would not pick up
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Part of the problem here is lack of a good test kit. you don't know your tank is even cycled without one. seeing as how the test you do have says you have ammonia, I'm going to say do a large water change right now, using a good conditioner/dechlorinator, say 50% and get a good test kit ASAP, so that we know what we're dealing with. You might as well continue adding the pimafix as you have it.
 
vanpudin said:
Should i stick it out and finish out the bottle of the pimafix though? Tested my water for ammonia with test strips from mardel. Test showed 1-2 colors off from what would be zero. It's been like that a while though. Hard to tell exactly. I Will get me good test kit at end of month. I hope its not to late
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might as well (seeing as how you have it).

seems you have an ammonia problem - treatment is water changes, and lots of 'em.

try and get the test kit as soon as you can. use it also to check your tap water for ammonia and nitrite.
 
no prob - try the water change anyway and get that test kit. good luck with 'em :)
 
Hey just took a reading from tap water with ammonia test strips. looks like tap water reading between .25-.50, 1-2 colors off 0 on my kit. And on water change, i did only 25% today because i didnt want to mess up to much with pimafix i'm putting in. I vacummed gravel using python.
 
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