Gord ward

Hey guys just an update. I’m in Canada so we don’t have any good meds. I got something called supratect. I dosed them and soaked some food and In48 hours they are almost totally gone. It’s some all natural stuff that can’t even be advertised as medicine up here but man my fish are popping off. I dosed all my tanks and I have never seen my fish this happy.

If anybody can lend some advice here it would be greatly appreciated. I have a 75 gallon tank with a few different types of mbuna. Moved to a new temporary house while mine is being built and the house has water softened by softening salt.( this can’t be avoided without adding a bypass before the softener). For the most part things have been fine. In other tanks my plans are growing and I have a school of 20 cardinals with some guppies in a 30 gallon as well as another 30 with babies from A few of the mbuna. I started to notice these black spots on many of the their faces head and belly areas. The water out of the tap is almost 0 gh but has 250 kh. I add 1 teaspoon of Epson salts for every five gallons of water and that brings me up to just over 100 gh. The tank has full gravel of crushed coral ph 8.6 gh 100 Kh 250 no Amonia no nitrite 10-15 nitrate temp is 80 I sent a pic of the whole tank since I don’t know species by name. I also get this dark algae all of my rocks and gravel if anybody knows what type of algae it is it would be helpful. I also included a close up of it.

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I heard Cory I beleive say once that shrimp need micro bacteria that may not exist in a new tank but although it was mostly empty I did cycle it for a month. I have done the regular water tests and nitrates are at twenty no ammonia or nitrite. I have a phosphate tester haven’t done it yet. Dosing with ez green

It was from big Als so possible but even if they were the wrong kind of shrimp weird they all died. The stuff is on the airline tubing and as I think about it it is some amazon airline tubing that perhaps was not intended for pet use as it was for my hydroponic indoor garden. My water comes from the city 8.0 ph and 200 gh. Water temp is 78. Since I just cleaned it I can’t get new pics but this is what I have.

Hi everyone. I have been in the hobby for about twenty years on and off but had to take a five year break because my job had constant travel. I recently changed careers and have started to build my tank collection again. Right now I have 55 g mbuna tank that is going great with tons of fry. My issue is the 29 gallon planted tank. It just has 3 guppies but I put in 6 anano shrimp and they all died. The other thing is that the sponge filter is getting this odd white flaky film. I can wipe it off and it goes all over the tank. I do have hard water but it’s only showing this in one tank. Any idea? Please help.