Stash Beardsley

Add a lot of plants to the tank you're adding them to.

Put it in a bucket or something and run it for a day or two before putting it in your tank.

When I found them last night I almost changed water right away out of a gut reaction. Was thinking about it and watching them. Tested my water. Made this post. Went to bed. So far lost 2 total and the remaining half have recovered. I've decided to not do anything else. If I change water parameters again I feel that might wipe them out. In the future with younger corys I will probably take your advice and treat each med separately. It's an interesting sort of thing to do some testing on if I start getting more corys of different ages. Doesn't seem like it's a very common thing from the posts on this thread and what I searched for. Could just be a one off.

I have used the trio on corys before with no issue. They were adults though.

I threw an extra air stone in there just in case since it takes 2 secs. I thought maybe swim bladder when I was watching them last night. They swim down and then just kind of halfway swim/float back up. I did check around on the googles and there were a few blog posts of using the med trio and then they were floating. Think there was one or two posts on this forum too. But no real info. or answers. With the meds. in the water I do notice that the water itself seems to be "thicker". Maybe it was too fast of a change for them to handle and their swim bladders couldn't handle it? I would consider them more or less juveniles. Maybe they just couldn't handle it since they're younger. I waited two weeks prior to doing the quarantine trio. They were acting fine. Added the meds and then the next night I was like where are they? Then found them floating.

Lost 2 out of 15 so far. There are 8 at the bottom of the tank now at least. The rest are still floating in the plants. They're still alive though.

Had an airstone on a sponge filter. Added another one last night just to see. About to go look right now.

I personally would rather give healthy fish away for free if you cant sell them. Or use them for food. I do cull sick fish though. I personally use a razor blade knife. If I suspect dropsy or columnaris I just cull.

Has anyone else used the med trio and had corys float at the top of the tank? Theyre floating under my red root floaters and duck weed. Sometimes theyll swim down and float back up. Some are at the bottom of the tank doing decently. If I move the plants the ones floating will swim down and then back up. My nitrite was at 1ppm. Didnt want to do a water change because of the meds. Did dose with Fritz zyme 7 to just try and get them through the 7 days in medication. Anyone else see this before?

It might sound mean but in the past I would squish them with my finger. Ive grown to like them now so I dont bother.

Thats what I do

Net them out with fine mesh net. Get some dollar store ice cube trays. Make mosquito ice cubes. Thaw them out as needed.

I have some 4" off the floor and use a siphon hooked up to a sink. The lower tanks siphon slower but doesnt bother me.

So what Im seeing in order is 0/0/300+/80/6.8/0. Is that what everyone else sees? Just want to make sure I'm reading these right.

Ohhhh ok, that makes since. Looked like it would be in between at first. But now I see how that works.

Looks like 150-300 to me.

I've done both. Either way seemed about the same to me. Food was eaten in the end. I mostly thaw it in little containers these days and then feed. Works well that way to feed multiple tanks the same chunk of food.

Thank ya, I mounted a Walmart fan from the ceiling blowing down. The bottom tanks have raised temp. and the upper tanks dropped some temp. Worked perfectly.

Just wondering if anyone out there has any experience with getting their fish room heat more evenly distributed? I'm building racks with three levels. I have my room set to keep the middle tanks around 77F + or - a little. The top tank is around 82F and the bottom tank is right at 71-72F. I did put 4" thick of foam board under my bottom left tank last night because I thought the concrete floor was stealing the heat. This morning it was still matching the tank temperature without the foam right next to it. My next idea was to maybe place mini fans at the ceiling level blowing straight down to try and mix the cold air at the floor? Has anyone tried this or have any other ideas that work for them? I realize the top tank will always be warmer. Just trying to get the lowest tanks a few degrees warmer.

That would be the reason I listed the co2 alarms prior to the smoke alarms. But smoke alarms are good just in case the ventless propane heater catches something on fire. Or the propane water heater.

0 on the co2 and 15 feet ish. Not too close to prevent false alarms and not too far. Now that I have that new alarm I now have 1 in the room and 1 outside of the room and 1 by my water heater/forced air furnace also 1 in the hallway outside the bedrooms. I feel fine sleeping at night. Not to mention 3 smoke alarms in the basement and 6 upstairs.

Update, it was a low oxygen issue. To fix I installed a 4" dryer exhaust cap. Used a 6" blower pulling air into the room. Have it on a timer to blow outside air into the room every 2 hours for a half hour. Also have a smoke alarm, explosive gas alarm, and a carbon monoxide alarm that shows the levels of carbon monoxide. I feel completely safe with it. No issues since I did the venting.

It's installed per the manual.

I like to check all the boxes and do things correctly. I have a monoxide alarm in the room. Out of the room and in an upstairs hallway outside of the bedrooms. I'm installing a temperature controlled fan to bring in fresh outside air as the room heats up and it will turn off as it drops temp. until the heater kicks back on. That way gets oxygen to burn with the fan on and some of those gases have a chance to escape passively when the fan is off. If need be I could always have another vent fan on a timer that kicks on every so often for a few minutes to expel any build up of exhaust out of the room. I could have that one on a timer.

I get that. I meant clean as in compared to a campfire, wood stove, coal, etc.