juliana-mae

Do you think it’s likely the snail is infected? I’m wondering if I need to euthanize him or if he could ever live with another fish again?

No, I was being very conscientious with the second fish and the tank was cycled.

Thank you for responding! From the onset of symptoms, I would say it took a month or two for both fish to die. No reddening of the gills, but yes, body rapid breathing and laying on the substrate. Water parameters with the second fish were Ammonia: 0, Nitrates: 0, Nitrite: 0. The first fish was Ammonia: .5, Nitrates: 10, Nitrite: .5 when I got home from vacation, I got the ammonia and nitrite under control shortly after I got back. I followed this protocol with the second fish: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/faqs/how-to-use-quaratine-med-trio. With the first fish, I did try some sort of medication in the tank, but I can't remember what it was.

After I brought in some plants and two nerite snails from a local aquarium store into my 9 gallon Fluval Flex, my betta fish came down with a disease and died. I thought at the time it was ammonia poisoning that happened from overfeeding while we were on vacation, but then I got another betta fish. At that point, the tank was cycled (it hadn't been previously). The new fish came down with the same disease and died (I tried quarantining and medicating, but it didn't work). The snails and plants have been living in the tank by themselves 6 months or so. One of the snails died. Do I try to save the other snail or do I need to euthanize it? I want to clean out the tank and probably give it away. But I feel bad for the snail. I would be willing to move him into a fresh tank I have, but I'm scared to ever put him in with another creature because he might have a disease. Thank you for any help.

@Lennie @Sleepy Thank you both so much! I was keeping the lights on way too long. Yes, the brown easily comes off the leaves! I will clean off this weekend when I do a water change. I did try floating water lettuce, but it was never successful - leaves browning and then it all died when I dose the tank with medication for a sick betta (who ended up dying, along with my pearl weed.) Is there another floating plant and seller you would recommend? I don't see anything on Aquarium Coop. I got the water lettuce from my LFS, I didn't see many other floating plants there. I do need a refill on my ammonia test kit so will be stopping my PetSmart, if that would be at all recommended. I'm also thinking I might need to get a lift kit for the aquarium to be able to keep floating plants because the lights are so close the water as is. I'm thinking this may have been part of what the water lettuce didn't like.

I have a 9 gallon Fluval Flex cycled tank with a female betta and two nerite snails. There has been one anubias in there attached to the mug and the water parameters are 0 for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates - it's been like that for a long time which I think was fine for just the one plant. I do a 50% water change once/week. I added new anubias, java fern and the moss ball just a few days ago. How much fertilizer should I dose and how often? (if any) How long should I have the lights on? I have the plants temporarily tied down to a piece of driftwood. The driftwood was causing excessive tannins so I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it. I added the activated carbon back in, so seeing if that will work. I did boil it twice so we'll see what happens this time around. There also seems like there is some sort of brown something on the existing anubias. Is that algae or could it have been from the driftwood that was in there before somehow. Thank you!!