From: Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com>
Reply-To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member
chat<gsas-member@thekrib.com>
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Hello & help!
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:18:07 -0700
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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