Re: [GSAS-Member] Hello & help!

[Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com>]

What temperature are they at? Seems like every freshwater person I meet 
lately has ich. Am assuming the sudden drop in temperature with the 
onset of autumn  is part of the problem, most people questioned admit 
they unplugged their heaters during the heat of summer and forgot to 
plug them back in, myself included. Doesn't explain where the ich is 
coming from, but I think chilling triggers ich and other diseases. Steev?

Are you on city water or well water? If well I would have it tested.

Kate

A JACOBSON wrote:

> I am a newbie, & started getting emails from this list the day after 
> the September meeting -- darn!  I'm looking forward to the October 
> meeting with bated breath, though.
>
> Though I am a newbie, I've already acquired 6 tanks, & have 3 really 
> set up, & 1 functioning as a quarantine tank.  Nobody warned me this 
> hobby was addictive.
>
> But I need help over something that has me completely puzzled.  All my 
> tanks are planted, & my first one, a 39 gallon, is mature, with no 
> ammonia or nitrite showing up at all.  I'm doing a 15% water change 
> each week, which is keeping the nitrates really low.  It is heavily 
> planted, and I'm delivering CO2 with a homemade system that seems to 
> be working well -- when I did a hardness & ph test, it showed CO2 in 
> the optimal range.  It is slightly acidic, about 6.8.  I'm running a 
> AquaClear 300 filter, but it was used and doesn't seem to be quite as 
> efficient as another of the same model that I have on a smaller tank, 
> but it's close.  Everything I can test is spot on.  There is a little 
> too much algae, so I'm trying to work on that with learning 
> appropriate feeding levels & getting algae eaters in there.
>
> So here's the problem.  My fish are dying.  They seem to go in groups, 
> one breed at a time.  At first it was either ich or velvet (I don't 
> really know the difference, haven't seen them in person), which I 
> treated with Maracyn on the advice of the Fish Store.  I lost my 4 
> gold rams & 2 blue german rams, my silver hatchets, & my 3 younger 
> Serpae tetras (my 4 adults are still fine).  That was during the 
> ich/velvet outbreak, which taught me the wisdom of quarantine tanks, 
> and my 20 gallon is quarantining 2 adult angels, & a 3 gallon is now 
> quarantining some penguins and chinese algae eaters.
>
> Then I lost my 4 marbled angels (about 1" long each).  Then my 2 
> siamese algae eaters died (which isn't helping the algae situation, 
> but it will almost a month before the new ones are out of 
> quarantine).  In the last 24 hours I've lost my six silver-tipped 
> tetras & my six marbled hatchets.  Right now I've got 5 bronze corys, 
> 4 adult serpae tetras, a talking catfish, a bamboo shrimp, a few 
> rainbow shrimp, & 2 ghost shrimps, plus 2 fiddler crabs.  I'm not 
> seeing any other fish in there.
>
> I cannot imagine what is going wrong!  Any advice of what to do next, 
> or what to look for next, would be appreciated.
>
> Anita Jacobson
>
> BTW, some fish gave a warning that they were sick (the silver hatchets 
> & the angels both started hanging out at the surface instead of 
> swimming around).  Some fish obviously died from ich/velvet.  But 
> some, like my marble hatchets, gave no warning at all.  Swimming 
> around happily one night, every single one of them floating the next 
> morning.
>
>
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