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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I had released him yesterday. His symptoms are mild. I took a video (he is not the first fish shown). He enters the shot from the left. Has a sort of rocking horse movement but he seems to be ok. He was stressed in the breeder box. I will try the salt.
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    Anytime I have had a wonky swimming fish it was all downhill. Thankfully this is a mild case. I am thinking about releasing him back to the community. His buddy keeps swimming up to him in the breeder box and they see each other. Jailbird seems glad to see his buddy and becomes more active. I ended up with these 2 when I bought washed out looking fish from a new shipment at LFS. I had requested pristella tetras but when color developed I was surprised! LFS said they must have jumped in the pristella tank from the next tank over. Anyway, I didn’t worry too much about school size since they school right along with the pristellas. I don’t know if being in the breeder box is better or worse for him.
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    Friends, we have an assumed swim bladder issue with a head-and-taillight tetra. The first thing was to get him to QT on Tuesday but he got snagged in a net, and as I texted 2 forum members in a panic, he freed himself. I threw away that net. After his stress and mine, I just put him into a breeder box. 2 days later and he is no better and no worse, I decided to move him for an epsom bath. Different net, finer, and feels “silky”? He got caught in that net too! This poor fish can’t catch a break! As the epsom salt bath is only a 15 minute deal, I just stuck the net with him attached into the bath and ran air. Upon transfer back to the breeder box, he freed himself. Thankfully. He has a barb or something below him that I suppose will get caught in whatever net. Anyway, I can’t foresee multiple transfers per day as @Colu’s disease thread recommends, but I think once per day is manageable, and I would transfer him using a solo cup. I would like to do salt as well but the snails can’t take it. I could move him to qt but he’s not contagious (to my knowledge) and he doesn’t like to be separated from the school. Video was taken right after his transfer back so you will see a little bit of heavy breathing. When he swims he drags along the bottom of the breeder box. He has negative buoyancy, and a bit of trouble turning. It’s like his fins aren’t allowing him to go where he wants to, so he wiggles his body to compensate. 18 other fish are unaffected and healthy. @nabokovfan87 @Guppysnail
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    Sorry you’re dealing with illness in the fishroom @nabokovfan87. Never fun. Here is what I consider the staples in my fish first aid kit: med trio kanaplex* jungle fungus tabs* salt Indian almond leaves i have other things in there that I have used to treat specific things (for shrimps) but probably would not replace those as I don’t expect those issues to recur. Also I hav Expel-P in there now. I am not certain on this yet but it’s possible it may work better than paracleanse. Last two times I used paracleanse issues were unresolved. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So when things start to expire I may research again and stock the Expel P instead. *Highly recommend having these 2 because if columnaris ever shows up, you have to act fast. Also Kanaplex treats gram positive and negative I believe. @Colu is that correct?
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    Just catching up.. wow! There is quite a bit I missed! First, sorry about Industry. Glad to see Punk is hanging in there though, and Invictus looks awesome! The tank move.. I can’t imagine. I tried to transport African cichlids in a 5g bucket with airstone from PA to FL. I lost some. To tell you the truth, they were fighting because they were in too small of a space. Then again, could have been sloshing or stress too. Not sure. I did see the fighting though; nothing I could do to stop in while on the journey. It was stressful. The medieval tank looks great, and I know your mom will enjoy it! And the shrimp you were so doubtful about.. you mentioned there are hundreds now? That’s awesome! Looking forward to following along on the large tank adventure. I love the stand.
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    Born to be wild! I haven’t seen any shrimplets lately. I wonder if it is because I have been feeding less. I haven’t been feeding much powdered food at all. I guess I should go back to that. I was figuring when they pick apart the shrimp sticks that would make enough dust to feed shrimplets but maybe not. Also found that the filter wasn’t working well, barely at all. It was the situation where the end of the airline gets loose over time and doesn’t properly seal onto the sponge filter. I snipped the end and reattached and it’s working much better now. Oh also found some small black worms in the tank(?) during this weekend’s water change. Multiple females are berried. One other thing. I keep the light off quite a bit to control the hair algae issue. I wonder if lighting plays any sort of a part in reproduction. Tonight I fed them “snail cookie crumbs” and they are frenzying over those.
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    Look at with camo and without. I hope this thread helps others. BNPs are tricksters!
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Looks at the handsome fellow after going back into the community tank. I can’t believe how he fooled me!
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    So it seems Flint was activating his camouflage and wasn’t actually sick. I returned him to the tank and he toned down the camouflage after he made the grand tour enjoying every wall, wood, and plant. Thanks @Lennie for reaching out to a pleco researcher on our behalf.
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    During the rest period after the medicated food, Geppetto healed on his own, and I didn’t need to remedicate. 🎉
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    That’s bizarre.
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    And then he made 100 poops.
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The Repashy morning wood I gave him last night was like the size of a half of a die (dice). It was gone by morning.
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Thanks guys I put 2 more leaves and 1/2 tbsp salt. He’s in a 5.5gal tank. I already had one leaf in there, mainly for food, but the tannins were being removed by the carbon and the poly filter. I took the carbon and the poly filter out, and I cannot see a blue tint to the water anymore from the jungle fungus tabs. He has had three or four water changes since the medication course ended. @Colu the patches got larger. Not raised. Off white
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    I think you’re right @Tony s. I’m not sure what’s going on.
  16. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The last few days I’ve just been doing water changes. The med course was completed and there is carbon and a chunk of poly-filter in there. It is taking some time for him to heal. I did not add any salt because I’m nervous about it as he is a scaleless fish. fin is a little frayed at the edge now. Not from netting. I caught him in a solo cup. I guess it is stress from the meds. Looks a little skinny since I haven’t been feeding much while I treated. Tiny amounts. I gave him a piece of morning wood Repashy today. Sidenote: look at his cute whiskers Just for comparison, this is what he looks like when healthy. Keep in mind the lighting is way different in these photos as well.
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    There is a freshwater fish illness called cotton mouth disease. I wonder if the issue could be that?
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Lil fellow is still in his spot. No odor or anything. I refreshed the tank water on the paper towel. Possible he is in some kind of hibernation: behavior which I have seen from him about 2 weeks ago as well.
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    Hampshire is in a makeshift hospital while I am gone for the day. Last night and this morning he gave me a few scares. The last few weeks he’s been slowing down. I don’t know his exact adoption date but it was before 3/15/22 according to one “headcount” in my notes. feeding ring+tupperware lid+paper towel. Mainly this is so he does not foul the tank for many hours while I’m gone… 😞 There is plenty of algae in the tank so I believe this is age-related. I devised this setup so he can crawl back into the water if/when he feels better.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I was using the Maracyn in the food with the garlic guard and focus twice a day for 7 days.
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Yeah. in this case the fins are not the issue
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Checked on my buddy this morning. He is happily eating the catappa leaf.
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I had hydra in my shrimp tank for like a year. I never saw them snag a shrimplet or a shrimp. They were green and I believe they were eating algae and or the Soilent green Repashy powder I was using in the tank.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    2nd panic of the day!!!!!1!1!!!1!!!!! I double dosed the Kanaplex! And didn’t realize it til 10 or 15 min later! I’ve been so careful to cut and weigh the JF tabs, and drop the water line by a half gallon in the 5.5 tank. But I absentmindedly doubled the Kanaplex (did 2 scoops) because my previous qt was 10 gal and dosing that amount became habit! Omg what a dum dum. Emergency 50 % water change. Flint seems fine. I, however, am about to lose my marbles over here. I will probably not dose tomorrow and just let him relax.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Here is the treatment in progress. Sorry for the typos. This is a screenshot so I can’t edit. He looked too bad to not treat. I have used this treatment in the past for a different illness, columnaris, and it cleared it up every time. Hoping for good results again this time. I feel like it’s a possibility he got behind the PFS and then got all wiggly. Those things are like dish scrubbers. (Or uh, fish scrubbers?) 🙃
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