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  1. On 3/14/2024 at 7:33 PM, Pepere said:

    Your top tanks are higher.  Do you have flourescent lights overhead?

    There are led converted fixtures for the garage and fluorescent over the tanks with the magnetic ballasts but not switched on.

  2. On 3/14/2024 at 7:08 PM, Pepere said:

    It sound like it is just noise then.  If there is nothing conductive in the tank…

    Or it could be the meter itself.

     

    But I am very much a fan of titanium ground probes and regularly tested GFCI circuits…

     

    and if the GFCI ever trips work to determine why.  They can trip from artifact as well…

     

    Sometimes the feed wire going in to the GFCI needs to double loop through an RF ferrite core choke…

    The meter shows 0.0 and 0.1 in other tanks on the same rack. 
     

    The top rack tanks are averaging 1.8

    middle rack tanks are averaging .4 

    bottom rack tanks are averaging .2

    And the voltage is believed to be of no concern for the fish?

  3. Ok sounds good. I will order up some grounding probes. There is nothing electronic in these tanks currently and still showing a little over a volt in the water. 
    super annoying. 

  4. Ok. I will replace the one for sure bad heater. And start plugging the others one by one. I left them unplugged over night (garage is sitting around 73 degree area) I will get them all set back up and see if any others are leaking voltage. 
     

    checked with red probe in water back to outlet ground. I will start getting ground probes installed and hopefully all will be well.

  5. Need some help. I have some stray voltage in tanks that I just discovered. Tanks with electronics removed are still reading around 1.5v or less. Is this a problem? Had one heater that was putting 55v in the water when it was heating. But all the other tanks except the tanks not connected to auto water change system has around a volt in it. How much is too much? Is ground probes acceptable to use in every tank and will keep fish safe? 
    haven’t ever ran into this before.

     

    26 tanks. 10 have no stray voltage or .1 v with heaters in the tanks. 16 had 4+ volts in them with nothing plugged in. All tanks have a irrigation valve controlled water supply for auto water changes

  6. On 1/10/2024 at 8:28 PM, Colu said:

    What I would do is monitor for the 4 weeks before moving any fish  if you  you start to lose more fish I would treat with maracyn2 active ingredient is minocycline @JBeehler

    The black flame endlers had a body show up yesterday. Starting the Marycyn 2 today. Starting with the one tank. 
     

    am I correct in thinking that no water changes for a full week?

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  7. On 1/10/2024 at 10:33 PM, Schuyler said:

    Squish looks so proud of himself. At first I just say a picture of a happy round fish so I liked it but then I read that he's a murder machine and now I'm conflicted.

    Do you plan to move the corys out? Are any even left?

    There should be 17 or so left. They hide out under the wood and rock work.  Basically have one shot to chase after one and then have to try again tomorrow. They out run you around this tank. 

  8. image.jpg.8ff9bfa82055b30a40d214d6c18af556.jpgBeen running the co2 reactor for a week and a half straight now. Running brs carbon Rox. Supposedly last longer. It’s slowly clearing up. Ordered the second biomaster Thermo 600 for the big tank. 

    Also picked up a UNS 90P to upgrade our spotted Congo planted tank from the rimmed 40 breeder they are in. Need to build a mid century modern stand for it to match the direction the basement room is going. 
    image.jpg.1f960ae5adf6df8ec48528671ef8f13c.jpgSquish, the star of the tank, has been killing off the Cory cats. Surprisingly the kribensis and him don’t mind each other. The long fin danios have been getting some tails nibbled here and there but all are active and healthy. 
     

    Fahaka puffers can be mean!

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  9. Ok so today marks the end of the second round of kanaplex. Is there anything I should follow up with? Been a few days since I have seen a body. Wait a week before selling out of these tanks?

  10. We have 20 or so emerald Cories in there.  There has been one mishap between squish and a cory. We will see if it is a continuous problem before we add more of those. The rest seems to get along great so far though. I am running a carbon reactor on the tank 24/7 for another week and then will switch to having it turn on with the nearby co2 regulator to try and balance the nutrients without stripping everything for the plants.

  11. Not much has changed. 1-2 fish between the 3 tanks pass every couple days. It may have slowed down some. Maybe. Today was the start of the “second” round of kanaplex regimen. I am really at a loss on what this could be. I thought the purple cobras were good to go but one body today. 

  12. I will start tonight. I will keep posted.

    On 12/27/2023 at 6:33 PM, Colu said:

    Columnaris is a gram negative bacterial infections that causes white patches that sometimes have a fuzzy appearance to the body and head you can get red sore or lesion spreads more quickly at temperatures over 75 and kill can in 24hr upto 7days for the cold water  stains you can also get some of these symptoms with tetrahymena what i would do treat for a bacterial infection first with kanaplex and aquarium salt 1 table spoon for 3 gallons and stop treating with ick x give an update after 5 days

    Water changes as normal and add salt daily?

  13. Also I am not sold on it being tetrahymena. I was unable to see visible signs of sickness other than clamped fins before . I know on the metal laces i definitely saw patches like this guppy presents but the red was not there. This is the 4th or 5th day of ich-x. Columnaris seems like a possibility with what has been seen today. Are there any ways to try and distinguish between the 2?

  14. On 12/27/2023 at 5:44 PM, Colu said:

    It could be damage from a tetrahymena burrowing into the tissue or a bacterial infections. as you’re already treating with malachite green what I would do is a course kanaplex just in case there's a bacterial component. I would also do aquarium salt baths 1 table spoon for 1 gallon for no more than 15 minutes for 5 days just in case its tetrahymena causing the red patches. if your guppy shows any de-stress remove her from the salt to a container with half the amount of aquarium salt for a couple of minutes the put her back in the main tank. 

    What are the odds of it being one fish with it? These tanks have 30-60 fish in them? Is there a more recommended solution for all of them? Run the kanaplex with the ich-x? As label directed for the kanaplex?

  15. @ColuOk no bodies today. I do have a very sick fish in the yellow tiger endlers. This is the first that I have seen so blatant and apparent. What do we have? What do I need to be treating?

    same fish. Obvious patches of something on the head and very obvious bleeding either internal or external on the side. 
     

    hopefully this will get us on the right track for saving these colonies.BEB0142D-63EF-4E06-A682-39196949F421.jpeg.775088ab55040dfb69e59fdd8e6430a5.jpeg8C9AF645-103A-4E16-9A6B-5944C039987C.jpeg.550bf8f24e01871ce6adb5b981f14437.jpeg

  16. On 12/26/2023 at 7:22 PM, Colu said:

    Nothing standing in the picture other than the curved back that can be caused by scoliosis that's really common in Guppies 

    Is there a way to post video? It more so it’s behavior with the arched back that causes me to believe that one is on the decline.

  17. Ok 1 body when I got home today. Was in my black flame endler tank. The provided picture does not show clamped fins but is showing the drooping back and minimal tail movement that was present with other observations of ones that have died. Still no fish showing these signs in the other 2 tanks…

    terrbike pictures but this one looks a still just active enough to be a pain to photograph 556507B6-5C48-4C96-BA68-15D24831BECF.jpeg.37e5b995254fc44e5a03d01b3b839c4d.jpeg504E9EFC-F122-45DC-891A-563565D9E0EA.jpeg.083f3174fb094debe0124f81303b2872.jpeg

  18. On 12/24/2023 at 4:52 PM, tike said:

    Does this mean your pH is 8.8?

    Midwest liquid rock. In person it looks kind of in between 8.4 and 8.8

    On 12/24/2023 at 4:29 PM, Colu said:

    I would keep treating with malachite green for another 5 days and increase water changes to the lower the bacterial count or you could add a UV sterilisers that can help if your dealing with tetrahymena 

    These tanks get a ~5% change every 6 hours.  I will continue treating for what you recommend. Sterilizers would be nice but each tank is kept separate from eachother and don’t want to add the expense of multiple individual sterilizers. 
     

    as of now between treating and removing substrate and mulm I haven’t seen any bodies or others acting funny. I will keep this post updated for the next few days unless it turns for the worse again.

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  19. On 12/24/2023 at 10:14 AM, Guppysnail said:

    What are you feeding?  I have seen this in 2 separate occasions with guppies. 1x with freeze dried food and 1x with bloodworms. 

    Tetramin tropical flakes 90%, coop fry food 5%, then random hikari, sera, extreme foods. 

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  20. I have sat in front of these 3 tanks for 30 minutes looking at the fish. Each tank is down in numbers from where i started, purple cobras had 2 bodies yesterday but today all tanks look great. Not one looking ill. I will keeping looking and see if one starts showing signs. For what it is worth yesterday I noticed one of the bodies I threw  away the day before had a split open belly? I haven’t seen that before so that strikes me strange. 

  21. I will post a picture tomorrow morning I am out for the night currently. It is only a few fish at a time but all three of these tanks had 100+ fish a couple months ago, I sold 30 fish out of one when I first put them in these tanks and now have less than 50. Thank you for any help and I will tag you when impost the picture.

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