Ok so any clue what it Ian or Na? I havnt been feeding for 5 days now. I also went out and bought new tests just in case those were accurate cause I hadn’t them awhile
need Id and possible treatment
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You keep referring to your water parameters in levels...this is not helpful. Can you post actual numbers? And what is your PH?
If you have any ammonia in the water this could be your problem, if your ph is low this could also be your problem.
You seem reluctant to accept that the problems you are having are related to water quality, which I anticipate they are.
can you also please answer the other questions I asked about filter maintenance?
Ok first off I didn’t answer the filter maintenance question because I havnt cleaned my filter as I stated in the first only thing that had changed in my tank is new fish were added. Second off every other question u asked I had already stated the answer to in my first post as well. Seems to me like u didn’t read it well cause I had to repeat myself. Thirdly u seem reluctant to accept that maybe I am a good fish keeper and just want to blame my husbandry like I don’t no what I’m doin. I triple tested my water just for u the third test results are ph 6.0 ammonia 0.25 I know good and well that low of a lvl does not cause a issue nitrite 0 nitrate5.0
Now when I say I have checked everything and checked it again and that is not the problem then I no that’s not the problem iv been keeping fish for over 10 years I’m not a newbie I no what the problem is it’s new fish that I didn’t quarantine. I didn’t ask what caused this I asked what it is a iD on it so I can treat it. Stop tryin to blame my husbandry
Also just to clarify as a answer with no give in it my filter was cleaned a month and half ago. Long b4 this started in my tank
Did you quarantine the new fish before adding them to the tank?
Were they new to your tanks, or from another tank in your house?
It looks like a bacterial infection to me.
I'm going to assume you didn't quarantine, unless you tell me different, and say this...........
if you didn't quarantine, or the quarantine was too short, then the new fish could have introduced the disease.
I usually quarantine at least 3 months, many bacterial diseases don't present symptoms in shorter periods of time.
Another thought, you stated you had this before......maybe your surviving fish built up immunity over time, immunity that the new introductions don't have.
Quarantine is as much about what may have previously been in your tank, as much as it is about keeping new diseases out.
And if an infection becomes strong enough, it can also overwhelm the immunity, your old fish have built up.
Were they new to your tanks, or from another tank in your house?
It looks like a bacterial infection to me.
I'm going to assume you didn't quarantine, unless you tell me different, and say this...........
if you didn't quarantine, or the quarantine was too short, then the new fish could have introduced the disease.
I usually quarantine at least 3 months, many bacterial diseases don't present symptoms in shorter periods of time.
Another thought, you stated you had this before......maybe your surviving fish built up immunity over time, immunity that the new introductions don't have.
Quarantine is as much about what may have previously been in your tank, as much as it is about keeping new diseases out.
And if an infection becomes strong enough, it can also overwhelm the immunity, your old fish have built up.
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I did not quarantine. I know that that is my own fault. I have full responsibility on the situation. I don’t no if my tank had this b4 or not. It had something that was kind of similar to this but that was just a cloudy eye look. This looks like something very diff. I started off looking like what the tank used to have but after 2 days it looked much much diff. Also the medicine I used to treat the old bacterial infection I had a year ago worked. I used the same medicine for this and it looked like it helped some of the fish but 3 of them it doesn’t look like it did anything. It also looks bacterial or fungusy to me as well. I have never seen this b4 in my 10+ years of keeping fish. I am assuming one of the new fish introduced this. Because iv added other new fish since I had the problem a year ago and they didn’t catch anything. Idk if this means anything or not but my Oscar does not have it only the bichirs
Any of the bacteria from before survived from the previous antibiotic treatment, it is very possible they may have developed resistance, and evolved, and these bacteria have the ability to go dormant for months waiting for new fish to show up without resistance, and infect.
One of the reasons I quarantine so long, is I add water from the tank the new fish are going into, a little at a time, every day to prepare the new fish in for (not just water parameters, but the population of bacteria they will be living with.
I know this sounds anal, but a fried who runs an aquatic exhibit doe a similar regime for at least 6 months before adding new fish to an exhibit.
It saves from the expense of treatment and and lots of dead fish, so well worth the effort.
One of the reasons I quarantine so long, is I add water from the tank the new fish are going into, a little at a time, every day to prepare the new fish in for (not just water parameters, but the population of bacteria they will be living with.
I know this sounds anal, but a fried who runs an aquatic exhibit doe a similar regime for at least 6 months before adding new fish to an exhibit.
It saves from the expense of treatment and and lots of dead fish, so well worth the effort.
I understand that but my thing is I have added at least 5 fish in the course of the last year and I had no problems. I added these new ones recently and all of a sudden there’s a outbreak 3 days later. That’s y I don’t think it came from my tank
All intakes is 1, I know aquarists that went for years without Q tanks and no incidents, then one day an entire systems population is wiped out. To me it's not worth the gamble.
That’s what I’m sayin tho I don’t think it was a dormant thing in my tank I think it came from 1 new fish because iv added many new fish with no issues over the last year. It’s from the new batch I put in
