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On 4/27/2023 at 8:50 PM, Odd Duck said:
What were the parameters before the water change? Do you have chlorine or chloramine in your water? What do you use as a dechlorinator and what dose? Any chance your municipality has dosed chlorine/chloramine higher than usual? What is your filtration, tank size, stocking list? Is it a planted tank? How heavily planted? Pics of the entire tank can sometimes be helpful.
I know it’s a lot of questions but every bit of information helps us give you better advice. If you would kindly check the suggestions in the “Diseases” section on how to make a post about sick fish, it lists the information you should include so we can give you the most appropriate advice.
Your salt dose is low enough that guppies can stay full time in water with that much salt. That is essentially 1 tablespoon per 3 gallons (30 grams salt = 1 tablespoon). I usually dose a bit lower to start but will go up to that dose with minimal worries except for plants and some very salt sensitive fish (some scaleless fish, for instance). For a salt dip (which I’m NOT necessarily recommending here), I dose 1 tablespoon (30 grams) per gallon and soak for 10-15 minutes, usually.
I can’t see your fish well enough in your pics to draw any conclusions except that fish hanging out at the surface need more oxygen - adding even more aeration might help, but I suspect with the history you’ve given that there may be some gill irritation from a chlorine/chloramine or ammonia surge. That surge may be gone, but some damage may have been done. Now it’s possibly just a matter of supportive care and waiting for the fish to heal as much as possible. More aeration anytime fish are persistently at the top. I suspect possibly your biofiltration isn’t quite at the capacity needed (did you maybe overclean a filter?), or your municipality has done a shock dose of chlorine or chloramine.
Don't worry, indeed a lot of questions help to find a better answer! This tank was empty and is planted, with a lot of moss and stem plants and long root floaters. I always use seachem prime, since I have a lot of trust in that brand. I have taken my fish to the vet since I needed to be there anyway. I found out that they had a serious bacterial infection. The cause probably was due to stress from the moving, and (I did not know this) when you open the bag, which I did to climate them to my water, can cause for an amonnia spike in the bag they were transported in, which caused them to be infected since the stress lowers their immune system. They gave me instructions to use medication with antibiotics and bacterial killer. I did put airation in there because they said the medication can remove oxygen. Tomorrow should be my last day but sadly the last one died two days ago... I still do the medication in case my aquarium got infected. I'm sad it happened but I learned something new, and next time I will buy guppies I will use a slate stone for my kh. I was amazed by how fast it all goes with bacterial infection and it was my first time I had this happen.
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On 4/23/2023 at 10:21 AM, Lennie said:
Can you please share your water parameters? How long your tank has been setup, is it cycled?
What is your water temp, ammonia/Nitrite/nitrate, gh, kh, ph?
What type of an aquarium salt treatment you applied, for how long, what was your ratio?
These questions may help to get a better answer.
Aquarium has been cycled for 6 months. Had other guppies in there before I moved them to my other aquarium. PH is 7. But I'm afraid I don't know my kh and gh. Ammonia 0,nitrite 0, nitrate zero since I did a water change yesterday. I do weekly 50% water changes. I used red sea salt from my local pet shop. 1 teaspoon for 1 gallon and let them in for 30 min. I did test the water they came in and they were the same except a little higher on ammonia. Still I does not look like ammonia burns. Problem is they won't tell me if they got it from another country or not so I'm not sure what the water parameters were before they came here.
On 4/23/2023 at 10:32 AM, Gigi said:Aquarium has been cycled for 6 months. Had other guppies in there before I moved them to my other aquarium. PH is 7. But I'm afraid I don't know my kh and gh. Ammonia 0,nitrite 0, nitrate zero since I did a water change yesterday. I do weekly 50% water changes. I used red sea salt from my local pet shop. 1 teaspoon for 1 gallon and let them in for 30 min. I did test the water they came in and they were the same except a little higher on ammonia. Still I does not look like ammonia burns. Problem is they won't tell me if they got it from another country or not so I'm not sure what the water parameters were before they came here.
Also temp is 25 degrees celcius
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I don't know what to do anymore. I tried looking on you tube and Google but can't seem to find the right decease. I finally got my hands on blue topaz guppies. I first ordered 1 male and two females. From the start they did not look to well. (had to come through post). At first I thought it was stress. The male and a female died allready. At first they ate fine so I thought I could get them through. I ordered again a batch and 2 females seem to get the same as the last surviving female. They are in a separate tank hence why I put them together for quarantine. Today the last female from the first batch is looking worse and I don't think I can safe her anymore so I put her away from my other guppies. At first it started with I thought was finrot. Since the tale began to lose color and began to be damaged each day. I gave aquarium salt treatment but it does not seem to work. The skin also looks wierd. Like skin peeling of but no blood. Today I noticed a red dot on the tale. Maybe blood or a fungus with no fuzz. I don't think it's a parasite since I don't see movement but I realy want to safe these guppies and any advice will help. PS : most will use antibiotics and cure parasites but in my country you can't find them in pet stores. I do find common fish cures here in stores so if I can identify which I may be able to help them.
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On 11/29/2022 at 6:28 PM, laritheloud said:
Both of these fish are male!
I’m also going to add they should be fine as a pair of dudes. Don’t add only one female or you will have issues.
Hey! As soon you said they were both males i decided better to be safe than sorry. I looked at their behavior longer and noticed this morning that the male that had a stripe was very dominant in my aquarium. He only bothered the other male once, but it was enough for me to notice that maybe there was more agression then i noticed. So i decided to scoop up the dominant male and went back to my fishshop. Normally they dont take fish back, but they remembered me and took back the male. Next we were 10 minutes watching the honey gouramis to fish out a female. Now i know for certain the difference between males and females. This one indeed has more silver and almost no color at all. She has been with me for a couple of hours now, and the male is now more at ease and not swimming around like it is a race. My aquarim is back in peace. Im sad that it did not realy work out between the two males, but if i did not spend the extra watch between them, i would have never have noticed the stress of the other male. So thank you for all the advice!
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On 11/29/2022 at 2:42 PM, TOtrees said:
I’ll add an opinion, that is somewhat informed, but I’m not an expert. I’ve kept honeys before, if that helps.
I do think you have two males. Wild type honey gourami females stay quite silver for base color and the body line remains quite strong. The fact that your second fish is any shade of honey or yellow suggests male.
Could it be a sunset female? Yes possibly. But the last pic with the amount of black below and the contrasting brightness of the top of the dorsal fin on the second fish all say male to me.
I get that you want to eventually breed them, but are they causing problems now? Excessive chasing/aggression?
No hence im thinking of not adding another to the tank. Maybe then they will get agressive. I could be wrong ofcourse but id rather not have agression when a female is added, i also dont have a spare tank to seperate them. I can however put aside my wish for breeding if it is for the welbeing of my fish. So far they enjoy each others company but will leave each other if they want with no agression/chasing involved.
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Here you can see the male coloring up more black while the one with the blue/grey face follows
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When my dear Betta died of old age i wanted to try out honey gouramis. While i could get the standard golden, i saw these wild type honey gouramis. I never regretted it! At some hours of the day they change colors and they love to explore, hence why it difficult to take pictures of them in the right angle. They are piecefull and so far no sign of agression from either one of them. While i asked for a female and a male, there was 1 where you could clearly see he was a male, while the other had a stripe and less color. I wanted to breed them in the future but now they are a couple of weeks with me and now the one with the stripe developed some colors the same as the male. You could clearly see that the one that shows most of the stripe has sometimes a blue/grey face while the male is grey/black. There was one evening his whole face went black, truly a wonder to see. But they both now have black and yellow markings, and i cant depend on the one who shows the stripe the most is truly a female or another male. The male always swims around like he is racing while the other is calm. The one who is calm also has a smaller backfin then the male. So im not sure anymore if it is truly male/female or two males. While there is no agression between the two and like to interact with one another, i think by adding a female could change that, or it would be to busy in my aquarium if i added another gourami. Does somebody has any experience in sexing the wild type honey gourami?
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4 to 5 weeks since disaster. A couple of days after my last post there were no changes in my cycle. My test even said it was deadly high. While the smell and murkyness was gone and my fish seemed fine. I decided to start over with the substrate. It needed a full day but it now has fresh substrate. I added new fresh bacteria from fritz this time. 1 week later my test results were the same as before I changed the substrate. While my filter was well established. I decided to let my aquarium water be tested in my local pet shop. Guess what? My water was perfect! My ammonia test was faulty. While I could have had an ammonia spike from the dead loach and melted plants. It was long gone and even did not need to change the substrate. Oh well you live and learn. While testing the water is a necessary thing. You can't always trust the tests. Now my aquarium is fine again I can finally save up for plants again and thinking about stocking choices... Thank you all for the helpful advice. And if anything can be learned from this is to not ré use substrate, unless you top it off with new. And while testing is good you can't realy rely on them.
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On 11/1/2022 at 6:37 PM, JettsPapa said:
I'm just now seeing this discussion, but wanted to say that something similar happened to me a year or so ago. I wanted to move my colony of blue shrimp from a 5 gallon tank to a 10 gallon tank. I wanted to keep as much of the beneficial bacteria colony as I could, so along with plants and the sponge filter I used the same substrate from the old tank. Almost every shrimp died in the first few days. I will never re-use substrate again.
Hey! Glad to know I'm not the only one. I too think ré using the substrate was my first mistake. However at the time I could not afford to go and buy new one. You see I used Ada soil, and here it is very hard to come by. Almost a 2 hour drive to the nearest store that have them. If they even have them in stock. However the soil was only a year old so I figured the nutrients were still there. But a good lesson to learn for my future set ups. Thank you for sharing.
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On 10/18/2022 at 11:28 AM, nabokovfan87 said:
Running some carbon will help with smells as well.
Glad you found the cause. Keep up the progress and things will do well. Cloudiness, even algae all could've been caused by the ammonia spike which will simply clear up over time.
It now has been about two weeks into my disaster and have learned a lot since then. The cloudiness eventually went away and then out of nowhere my ammonia spiked. So indeed it was a bacterial die off. I did add a bacteria booster the moment I set it back up so I wondered why only then my ammonia spiked and not in the first 2 weeks. I decided I would remove the wood and replace it with a wood I know. Iron wood. In doing so I noticed my annubias was smelling foul. Somebody here mentioned rotting roots of annubias smelled pretty bad too. So I removed it and added 80 euro of plants in there, including 2 fast growing stem plants. I continued doing water changes every day to keep the ammonia down for my fish but it was little to no help and I was worried I would disrupt the cycle if I did that. So I bought seachem prime to put in everyday to make the ammonia less toxic to my fish. I also bought floaters to help. My test kid says ammonia is still high but less then before I added the prime. However my nitrite and ph pretty much did not change since the first day I set it up. Even when I cycled my first tank ever the cycle did not take so long, and I still have my filter with the established bacteria. I decided to let algea grow on my aquarium windows as well to help me but for the rest I don't realy know what to do any more than that. I'm a little reluctant to buy more bacterial boosters, since my ammonia is still high I don't want it to spike again if I add more. Though the cloudiness and smell is gone, here is a new pic of how it is looking now. Any advice on what to do now?
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On 10/18/2022 at 1:09 AM, nabokovfan87 said:
Algae definitely has a smell to it. Vegetal type of thing.
Here's where we need to start.
PLEASE watch that video and let us know how things are looking.
Following the testing, this is how I would solve the issues with the tank.
---->As long as there isn't any fish in the tank, or expected to be, you're fine to do the following:
A. Take the wood and rocks out of the tank, keep them wet, but take them to a sink or somewhere to rinse them off completely. Remove any algae with a toothbrush or similar soft bristle brush.
B. With those items removed, gravel vac the heck out of the gravel, look for dead fish and verify that there isn't a trapped loach rotting somewhere.
C. Drain out as much water as possible, and then fill the tank with clean, fresh water. Add the rocks and wood back in.
D. MAKE SURE you have at least an air stone running in the tank at all time. You need the water to move around and to have surface movement to help with success here.
E. If possible, you'd want to go ahead and test daily for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, KH, PH. Do this for a few days and see how things change over time. If they remain constant or if you see Ammonia turning into nitrite and then nitrates, that's a good thing.
F. Verify everything, lighting timer, water conditioner, etc. Make sure you're doing all the basics right and then you give the tank time.
G. When you're comfortable, when it makes sense to do so (the tank is processing ammonia), then you're fine to add the fish back in. This could be as little as 1-2 days. The sooner the better in the case that they are in a very small amount of water right now.
Now, let's discuss what's going on here and then talk about what could be normal and when to be concerned.
Cloudiness points towards ammonia and bacterial activity in the water. This will clear up on it's own and is very normal. If you want it to clear up sooner, then you'd just do this with daily 50% water changes.
The smell could be normal or could be a sign of a dead fish. Check for fish, if not, it's likely very normal. Loaches and other things can get wedged and stuck into some pretty tight places and be very difficult to find. It also could be the smell from the food, high nitrates, and other reasons. If this smell is new and you're not a fan, run some carbon in your filtration where the chemical filtration media would go.
This also could just mean it's time to clean your filter.Question, I see you're running CO2 on a pretty bare tank with low demand plants. Can you elaborate on your setup for the CO2 and what kind it is?
Hello! First of thank you for the long list of what to do! I use a small co2 bottle of soda stream. Normally I use 1 bubble per second. But I made it a little slower, about a bubble per two seconds. Sadly since I did not have a second tank I have put my fish in and I test daily for parameters. The tests say my water is perfect though, even before I started doing 50% water changes. I also cleaned my filter and have seachem in it so it should take care of dangerous stuff. It took me a while to find the loach but it has been dead for some time as it broke up in my hand. As for the smell it does not smell like algea. It smelled like a bowl of dead fish. But now it is less since I found the dead loach. So I think the smell came from there. I will continue to do 50% water changes untill it begins to clear up. And will check out the video. Thanks again!
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On 10/17/2022 at 7:48 PM, meadeam said:
I really don't know, but to begin with I would reverse anything that happened just prior to the issue starting. Have you removed the manzanita?
Not yet. I did remove the wood to smell it but it does not smell like the water. I'll try removing it tomorrow to see if that helps.
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I'm out of ideas of what to do anymore. I had to move houses last week and the first thing I did was my aquarium. I had a betta with amano shrimp and pygmy corydoras and a Bornéo sucker and 2 ottociclusses. First thing I did was moving my fish to a Tupperware with 20% of my aquarium water and let my oase filter running with it. I kept and ré used all my substrate. I added more benefitial bacteria to be sure. The first thing I noticed was the water was getting cloudy. Then my amano shrimp started to die. Now my water smells and is still cloudy and it realy smells like something rotting. I tested my water everyday and it says my parameters are great! I started doing 50% water changes every day to get rid of the smell and cloudyness but it does not help. My plants are starting to melt. But my parameters still say my water is perfect. I now lost all my amano shrimp and my Bornéo sucker. While those always survived my aquarium changes before. My fish are acting fine though. I tested the water from my new home since it's a different city but it is almost the same as my old home. It's not the first time I moved my aquarium but this cloudy and smell is new to me. The only new thing I added was the Manzanita wood. And while I knew I could get algea covered I don't think this wood would get my water to smell this bad or to cloud it. If anyone have any experience with this I could use all the help I can get before I lose all my fish!
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This is the best picture I could get since they swim so fast. I just noticed it today when I was feeding them. I'm not sure if it is the same male but two days ago 1 jumped when I was cleaning the tank, I was able to safe him in time and saw no wounds. I would have noticed it before so I'm not sure what this is. It looks like a tumor or maybe he's gut are falling trough. Or maybe he had it al along and I just noticed it because it was red. It realy looks like a pimple. I'm not sure what it is, hence I ask here for help. I'm in the middle of a move so I don't have a hospital tank now. Should I cull him? How long will he have with whatever this is? What should I do?
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On 9/9/2021 at 2:28 PM, RyanU said:
Sorry to hear about the Cory's. I too myself have about thirty that I scraped off my tank and hatched in a breeder box. Tonight I am going to take some tank water out and put them in their own grow out tank. Keep us posted on how everything goes
Here are some baby's enjoying eating dinner with their parents. I counted about 10 of them(that I could see) all from various ages from August. The last pic is even one from a week old ago!
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On 9/9/2021 at 2:28 PM, RyanU said:
Sorry to hear about the Cory's. I too myself have about thirty that I scraped off my tank and hatched in a breeder box. Tonight I am going to take some tank water out and put them in their own grow out tank. Keep us posted on how everything goes
Wow 30! Grats! I surely will and would love to see your egg story 🙂
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On 9/9/2021 at 2:05 PM, Guppysnail said:
Sometimes it not anything we do don’t blame yourself. I’m sorry this happened to you. But I am glad some are doing well. I thought of this post yesterday when I found a lone panda Cory egg. I rescued it from my guppies and hung it in a specimen container with air and meth blue to see if I can hatch outside of the aquarium. I’ve never done it in a spec container so hopefully
I hope it goes well for you! To be fair the spec container was easy to keep an eye out for your fry, do they eat well and all. Only downside is cleaning. They are so small the first week. I found that Cory eggs are very durable. I did not use any meth blue and they developed fine(with use of air stone and daily water changes) do keep an update on how it goes!
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On 8/1/2021 at 1:15 PM, Guppysnail said:
I have never removed my Cory eggs of any species from the tank but I know you need an anti fungal.ie….methelyne blue, malachite green, paragaurd, ich-x and you need a bubbler to keep the flow of water going. They sell easy bubbling Hatcher’s and those products on amazon and coop very cheap but I’m not sure if it will arrive to you in time. Google diy hatcheries they are not hard to throw together. Best of luck keep us posted and new fry pics.
So it has been a few weeks and 1 lot have happened between them. My panda Cory's keep breeding so I stopped pulling them out of my aquarium. I think in total I had 12 eggs pulled out. Sadly only 8 of them thrived. To make sure they would eat I made a large storage Tupper with a heater and a bubbler. I also added some pond snails and floaters and changed my water every day with my aquarium water. Soon enough I also started seeing baby's in my aquarium itself. Not a lot but they where there. They ate first bites very well and since two weeks I started to give frozen nano food. I don't know what happened but today 4/8 just died on me. They were growing so well and started to look like mini Pandas. Almost big enough to go in my aquarium. I don't know what I did wrong but I decided to put the surviving members back into the aquarium so they can search for food. I know this is probably part of nature but still I am sad, because I thought it was going so well. Just an update 🙂
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On 8/1/2021 at 1:15 PM, Guppysnail said:
I have never removed my Cory eggs of any species from the tank but I know you need an anti fungal.ie….methelyne blue, malachite green, paragaurd, ich-x and you need a bubbler to keep the flow of water going. They sell easy bubbling Hatcher’s and those products on amazon and coop very cheap but I’m not sure if it will arrive to you in time. Google diy hatcheries they are not hard to throw together. Best of luck keep us posted and new fry pics.
First two have hatched today!
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Two have hatched today! I'm so excited to try and raise them!
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Thank you, I'll go to my local fish shop today to look for that anti fungal stuff and will buy an air stone to put in there. Not sure they will have baby b shrimp hatcheries but I'll keep an eye out for those. I will also check for a good hatchery. Thanks for the advice and will update as soon as I learn more!
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Hello, 3 days ago I noticed 10 eggs from my Panda corydoras on the glass. They should be around breeding age and was not really planning on breeding them. However that night I also lost two Pandas. They got stuck between the outlet pipe and I could not see it in time because my tank is heavy planted. So now I have to few for them to be happy. So I decided to give it a shot and put the eggs in a container, because I've read they could eat their own young/eggs. And I have a beta and tétras in there who would like potentially nible on them as well. I change the water every day in that little container. But as far on what to do I'm new. Are the eggs even fertilized? The first picture was from the first 10 eggs 3 days ago and this morning I found a new batch. I don't even know what triggered them to spawn as I did not do a water change that week. (cleaning is every Sunday) and they always swim away when they see me. I do feed blood worms now and then for variation in their diet. Second picture is the batch from this morning. If anybody can have some tips and can tell if they are fertilized? If successfully hatched is frozen baby brine shrimp OK? Any tips will help. Thank you very much!
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Thank you all for the reply's 😊 I will keep it, move my buce plants and for the rest it's a waiting game for plants to settle in!
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So i have a little issue. I hope you guys can help! I am relativly new to aquascaping and learned a lot along the way. This is my ADA 60p aquarium. I tried to make a little cave for my panda corry's. I placed between the rock Anubias Pinto and Bucephalandra's. But the rock is not realy stable but my panda's like to hide in it and it takes away the view of the nice plants... I cant seem to find a good spot for it and i think my panda's would like to keep the cave. Should i keep it like this or do you guys have other idea's?
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Also I don't think it's the filter since the filter is for a 100l aquarium and mine is 60l,i always clean the filter in aquarium water when I do a water change. And the filter has been running 6 months with other fish before I moved the fish to my comunity tank so my guppies could be alone, and had no problems there.