URGENT HELP ! Fish dying!

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Help me ! I have a red wagtail platy with red botches and patches on its scales. If I look side ways some of these are raised bumps. Also there are other 'pimples' on its scale. Its big and all over the body.

I cant get a picture of it. My camera is not very good. I have quarantined it. However I believe the main tank that it came from has been infected because all of my koi swordtails have died (at the bottom). And my betta (from the main tank) is very lethargic and keeps breathing rapidly.

Can anyone suggestion treatments for the fish in the quarantine tank and that in the main tank?

Thanks
 
Until someone who is knowledgable in fish diseases posts, post your water perameters, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph, temperature, as well as your tank size, how long it has been set up, and the fish list. That will help in possible diagnosis.
 
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Well ok... ammonia is 1.0. nitrite, nitrate are zero. PH is 6.6. As for temperature I do not have a thermometer. (My tanker doesnt run with a heater. I live in a tropical country - no seasons.)
Tank size is 40 gallons.
The tank is immature.
Tankmates are 7 platys, 8 swordtail platys, 2 bettas and 6 white spot tetras. 5 swordtail kois have died.

One of the betta has swim bladder. I did a 50% water change and added aquarium salt along with swim bladder treatment.

The other really sick platy (the one with red bumps) is quarantined. Did a 90% water change with aquarium salt and with a broad spectrum anti fungus (i didnt know what to use).
 
With an ammonia reading of 1.0, you may have a fish with a chemical burn. That much ammonia will eventually harm all of your fish. You need to do enough water changhes to get the ammonia level down to less than 0.25ppm. It may take several large partial water changes to get the chemistry safe for your fish. Your nitrogen cycle looks like it has not started based on the chemistry that you reported. This will take a great deal of attention for the next few weeks until the nitrogen cycle gets going properly. There is a sticky article at the top of the newbie forum that gives lots of information on how to do a fishy cycle. That is what you are doing whether you realized it or not.
 
Also those fish will need a heater. They should be kept at around 78 degrees.
 
oh no.. so it has to be below 0.25 ppm? I tot it had to be constant and 1.0 ppm! is it the same for nitrite?

what about the fish.. does anyone noe wad disease it has?
 
:iagree:

Start doing big (50% +) water changes daily until the water tests 0 for Ammonia and Nitrite.
 
oh ok..
I will start doing 50% water changes.

Also if fishes die and they end up at the bottom of the tank, with no other symptons (scales are okay..) , chances are they have swim bladder?

thanks
 
Isn,t ph of 6.6 to low for platies anyway?
 
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