HELP SICK JAGS AFTER BREEDING!

[urbaninja]

Like the title says my jags have bred and are now sick on hatcing day, as the eggs hatch the parenst just sits on the bottom of the tank lifeless and is covered with a white cloud on the face and fins and it appears that the fins are rotting so i need help bad guys. I was wondering what kind of medication would be best for this kind of situation and if i do use the med will it kill the frys.
Thanks for any help
-Brian S.

[Camphilophus]

a waterchange, some salt, and 82*. I'm not big on medications and haven't fought a lot of diseases though so I'm sure somebody else can help you better. Try searching google for "tail rot" and also post your water paramaters.

[mahemaheman85]

you could use Aquari-sol, thats what i use for my scaleless/sensitive fish, it treats everything and it doesnt have that chemical that causes cancer in it.

[urbaninja]

I have no way fo testing my water parameters right now and dont think i have the money for a kit either but ill try to give aquari sol a try tomorow thanks for the help guys

[urbaninja]

well i just found my male jag dead. man this really sucks cause that was my favorite fish.:(:(:(:(

[Camphilophus]

you need to get a kit to test your water. How often are you doing waterchanges?

[urbaninja]

you need to get a kit to test your water. How often are you doing waterchanges?

i do a 50% weekly water change,with in the 3 1/2 month period that i had my male jag he grew 4 inches with the weekly water change.They were fine till last week when i changed from gravel to sand and i think thats where i meesed up and made the fishes sick.
My female died also about 30 mins ago the frys are all alone in the 60gal i hope they'll make it.

[Cmb Mani]

oh man am so sorry to hear that.. did u wash the new sand properly??

[mbunafishkeeper]

sorry to hear about it, how did you do the change?? i done a gravel to sand change on my jag tank and they were fine.

[urbaninja]

oh man am so sorry to hear that.. did u wash the new sand properly??
yea i washed it for wel over an hour.
Mbuna i changed it while i was oing a weekly water change. I think the jags died because they digged a lot to try to build a nest and the sand got stuck on to their slime coat which led to this.

[mbunafishkeeper]

yea i washed it for wel over an hour.
Mbuna i changed it while i was oing a weekly water change. I think the jags died because they digged a lot to try to build a nest and the sand got stuck on to their slime coat which led to this.TBH i regret putting sand in my tank, its a night mare, cleaning the sand, sifting through it etc way to much hassle for what its worth, i know what your saying about the sand sticking to the slime coat when my dads stir up the sand they sometimes get this but they shake it off.

when i changed substrate i removed all of the water from my tank, put the fish in poly boxes and about 30 gallon of the previous tank water into buckets then after cleaning the substrate for about 4 hours i put it in the tank and out the old water back in aswell as some from my other tank and then tap water, left the tank to settle for an hour whilst acclimatising the jags and then added them, there ok but i would have gravel over sand anytime now.

also i think bolty had some trouble with his jags when he put them in with sand im not to sure tho.

[Camphilophus]

I have tanks with sand and I always see fish with sand stuck to their slimecoat, never affects them though. What kind of sand did you use?

You didn't clean all your filters after you changed the substrate did you? You might have removed all the good bacteria from your tank by removing the cycled gravel.

[voss345]

I have tanks with sand and I always see fish with sand stuck to their slimecoat, never affects them though. What kind of sand did you use?

You didn't clean all your filters after you changed the substrate did you? You might have removed all the good bacteria from your tank by removing the cycled gravel.


yea im thinking removing the gravel caused this, ive seen in alot of people lose fish after changing up

[terd ferguson]

Wow, it really sucks that you lost both of them. How are the fry and how are the other tankmates?

[urbaninja]

The frys are all dead and the tank mates now have the same illness but it isnt as bad and im treating them right now with aquarisol at the moment.