ItsMeDario

Please let me know if you require more pictures or videos.

Gill Fluke? Looks like they're getting very skinny too. What the makes start to look like before they die. They get dark and tails start to droop. Found a female with a bunch of white spots. I will find a way to add a video of the fish with the white spots. Ultimately, I'm wondering if the meds I'm providing are helpful for what I'm seeing here. I appreciate any advice you might have.

Okay, I received the kanaplex yesterday and finally started the process. I dosed my two 10-gallon tanks with 1 tab of jungal fungus clear each and dosed the 40-gallon with 4 tabs which I mixed in a cup of aquarium water first. Additionally, I tried to create a mixture of food, kanaplex, focus, and garlic guard but I'm not entirely sure I did it right. Do you have pictures of what the consistency should look like? I fed all the tanks the mixture last night. This morning I dosed all the tanks with the jungal clear again, per your instructions. Here are a few things I'm seeing. I noticed that a few fish look to have gill fluke. Does this look like that to you? (I'll post the pictures from my phone, they're coming in at weird angle's on my PC)

I don’t have any active carbon since I’m running the aquarium coop sponge filters.

Will do. Is a 50% water change sufficient?

I ordered the medication you recommended, they arrive today.

Ok, I’ll try to find those too right now. is it fine to treat with maracyn as instructed on the packaging or is the food method better?

Only a few of the female fish have the raised white scales. I looked carefully and could spot white lips. What I meant earlier is that they were losing color and turning white. I’m really at a loss and really dejected right now. One tanks was practically wiped out (10-gallon) after yesterday’s changes. The issue had been going on for quite some time but I believe I lost about 50 fish today and counting. My 40-gallon went from hundreds of fish to maybe 40 at this point. I did see that a couple of fish were wasting away. I think that they’re dealing with fin rot. But I’m not certain, their tales look to be extremely frayed. I’ve seen raised white spots on the females. The males tend to turn black before dying. i noticed that a few had enlarged gills today. Do you think that the change from RO (with mineralization) to tap water (decolonized) might have been too drastic of a change? Causing so many to die off at once? out of sheer precaution, I started a treatment of paraclense and maracyn on my original 10-gallon. I’m really afraid of losing all my fish since I ordered them from red fish blue fish which is now out of business. Also, I’ve lowered the temp on all my tanks to 70 but it’s over 100 in California and I can get my tanks to go under 76 degrees.

Update I conducted a 50-60% water change last night with decholorinated tap water and added 11 large almond leaves. I have fritz maracyn around and decided to start treating them while I wait for the focus and garlic guard. i woke up to 10 dead fish. Did a second dosing of treatment today with maracyn and food. Came back a couple hours later and found another batch of dead fish. Additionally, many of the fish are now turning white and laying on the gravel. I’m not sure if this is part of the treatment process or whether they’re all going to die. some of them seem to be seizing or moving awkwardly. i apologize for the format or gramatical issues. I’m sending this from my phone in a panic.

Excellent, I did a 50% water change with dechlorinated tap water and added all the large leaves I have (11). I ordered all the things you mentioned and will start treatment asap. Fingers crossed this works. I appreciate all the help the two of you have provided. I’ll keep you posted on the results

Does it matter how large the almond leaves are if I use 40? The ones I have are pretty big.

Thank you, I'll order the seachems focus right now along with more almond leaves.

Just to confirm, I’d require 40 leafs for a 40-gallon tank? I will definitely do the 50% water change today and can add as many leafs as I have. I’ll have to order more since I only have 10 or so. I’ll try to get better pictures of this fish after my morning meetings.

Thank you for all the information. I'm going to order some seachem equilibrium and pray that it helps. I'll keep y'all posted.

I have not tested for ammonia. I have a large testing kit but it seemed complicated and purchased the co-op strips. I just tested for ammonia and it looks to be fine? No, I did not know I had to remineralize the RO water. Do you think I should just use standard tap water that I dechlorinate? The white spots were raised and they went away for a while but from time to time I'll see them on a female guppy but it tends to go away. I did see one female guppy with the raised white bumps right now. Sorry had a really hard time getting a picture of her. I have not noticed any of the other issues you mentioned. Do you think that not remineralizing the water can be the cause?