what else can I do??
A couple of days ago I moved the all-molly tank into their permanent tank upstairs (25g). They promptly got ich. I used Quick-cure for 3 days. About noon yesterday they looked fine. 9pm last night one of my best mollies -- one of the first three fish I ever got, and a real beauty -- was upside down in the tank, though still alive. Thinking it might be a reaction to the Quick-cure, I put him in a 1g bowl and changed out the water for fresh stuff. I added an airstone, m. blue, and a bit of hydrogen peroxide. He improved slightly, fighting to try to stay upright near the bubbles.
Meanwhile, in the next tank over (30g long), I had three gobies that have varying degrees of bloat. One knight goby looks like she's carring double the usual number of eggs, looking ready to explode any minute -- for the last three days. One butterfly goby was pale and having trouble swimming and staying upright. The other knight goby is a bit more rounded than usual.
Two days ago we lost one of my husband's bettas to what looked like dropsy. She used to be in the same tank as the gobies but had been moved to a more-heavily planted tank (15g tall). She also had trouble swimming. A couple of weeks ago I lost a butterfly goby to something that looked like what the current bf goby has.
After much online chatting w/ people far more experienced than me, I put all three gobies into the hospital tank with the molly. I'd increased the s.g. from 1.0 to 1.002 (on the way up to 1.006 or so) in the hospital tank. (20g tank, w/ power filter-no media and mature sponge filter, since it was the one that was ready for use). I medicated the tank with Triple Sulfa, as suggested...Furan-2 was ineffective for the previous bf goby. A few times since I've added a capful of hydrogen peroxide to the tank to add extra oxygen; the molly seems to appreciate it. He's still hanging in there. The butterfly goby died within the last hour. What else can I do???
Oh, yeah... water change on the 15g and 30g the same day as the mollies were moved upstairs, so ammonia/nitrites/nitrates should be nil. pH is 7.8, GH is 12, KH is 7, phosphates are 0.8 out of the tap (yikes). The only thing that was in all three tanks was me with the Python water changing thing. I sorta think something got into it and migrated between tanks.
And I hope it's unrelated but I fear it isn't: the gudgeons in the 55g downstairs have been dark and less active lately.
A couple of days ago I moved the all-molly tank into their permanent tank upstairs (25g). They promptly got ich. I used Quick-cure for 3 days. About noon yesterday they looked fine. 9pm last night one of my best mollies -- one of the first three fish I ever got, and a real beauty -- was upside down in the tank, though still alive. Thinking it might be a reaction to the Quick-cure, I put him in a 1g bowl and changed out the water for fresh stuff. I added an airstone, m. blue, and a bit of hydrogen peroxide. He improved slightly, fighting to try to stay upright near the bubbles.
Meanwhile, in the next tank over (30g long), I had three gobies that have varying degrees of bloat. One knight goby looks like she's carring double the usual number of eggs, looking ready to explode any minute -- for the last three days. One butterfly goby was pale and having trouble swimming and staying upright. The other knight goby is a bit more rounded than usual.
Two days ago we lost one of my husband's bettas to what looked like dropsy. She used to be in the same tank as the gobies but had been moved to a more-heavily planted tank (15g tall). She also had trouble swimming. A couple of weeks ago I lost a butterfly goby to something that looked like what the current bf goby has.
After much online chatting w/ people far more experienced than me, I put all three gobies into the hospital tank with the molly. I'd increased the s.g. from 1.0 to 1.002 (on the way up to 1.006 or so) in the hospital tank. (20g tank, w/ power filter-no media and mature sponge filter, since it was the one that was ready for use). I medicated the tank with Triple Sulfa, as suggested...Furan-2 was ineffective for the previous bf goby. A few times since I've added a capful of hydrogen peroxide to the tank to add extra oxygen; the molly seems to appreciate it. He's still hanging in there. The butterfly goby died within the last hour. What else can I do???
Oh, yeah... water change on the 15g and 30g the same day as the mollies were moved upstairs, so ammonia/nitrites/nitrates should be nil. pH is 7.8, GH is 12, KH is 7, phosphates are 0.8 out of the tap (yikes). The only thing that was in all three tanks was me with the Python water changing thing. I sorta think something got into it and migrated between tanks.
And I hope it's unrelated but I fear it isn't: the gudgeons in the 55g downstairs have been dark and less active lately.
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