- Have you tested your water?
- Yes
- If yes, what is your ammonia?
- 0
- If yes, what is your nitrite?
- 0
- If yes, what is your nitrate?
- about 60 ppm
- If I did not test my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be asked to do a test, and that water tests are critical for solving freshwater health problems.
- Do you do water changes?
- Yes
- What percentage of water do you change?
- 51-60%
- How frequently do you change your water?
- Every two weeks
- If I do not change my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be recommended to do a water change, and water changes are critical for preventing future freshwater health problems.
Recently I had a fatal incident happen to my 260. I'd appreciate any feedback/suggestions from people knowledgeable in this sort of thing.
I recently acquired 6 redhooks from snookn21 on aquabid. I payed for overnight but apparently they sat in shipping for 2 days. I added them to my tank and they joined up with my other 7 SD and everything seemed fine. My other stock is a large Oscar and a not full grown raph catfish that just hides all the time. Everything seems completely fine so I assumed all was well.
Sunday I did a decent size wc. Monday/Tuesday I noticed some shiny sorta dots on some of the redhooks. I noticed some body stuff when I first got them and their fins were sorta shredded a little but I assumed this was from stress and internal aggression during shipping. Wednesday when I got home 3 of the smaller SD were dead at the top and I noticed the rest were all covered in white dots. It all happened so abruptly. I did a water test and my nitrates were a bit high. (specially since i did a wc so recently)
I went to my LFS and bought something called Kordon ICH attack. I dosed for the entire tank (counting the sump water and 260 for tank I rounded up and did 30 TSP for roughly 300 gallons. I also raised the tank temp to around 84-85. Waited 24 hours, next day the other 10 SD were all dead and my poor Oscar was covered too. I did another wc and dosed again for the full volume after the wc. Today after another 24 hours I came home hoping Iago would look better, and he looked 100x worse. Covered in white dots, laying on the substrate. I'm pretty sure the raph cat has some on him too but frankly I so rarely see him I dunno what he normally looks like. Oddly enough since this has all been happening he's coming out all the time now.
So today I euthanized my boy Iago with clove oil....He appeared to be getting much worse very fast every 24 hours and I just didn't want the poor fella to suffer anymore. I did do ANOTHER wc as well and dosed for the entire tank as well...
That's where I'm at now. So I'm pretty bummed about this whole thing and feel like maybe I should have seen these signs earlier. Or quarantined the fish I had shipped in. He claimed they were all treated for parasites/etc in his ad. I feel like maybe I should have used salt and not this kordon crap that literally did nothing. I dunno, I just feel ****ty because I feel like maybe I could have done something more to prevent this and I'm bummed I lost my boy Iago and his SD buddies. I've kept many tanks and honestly never had anything like this happen or had to deal with any fish illness/parasites/etc.
So where I'm at now is the cat is still alive. Do I continue to do wc and dose? He doesn't appear to be covered like all the rest of the fish were and is swimming around honestly 100x more than he normally did in the past.
If he dies clearly my option from what I've read is after 4 days or so the tank will be clear because ich won't have a host right? But then what's feeding my bb? So will that die off from not having any fish waste and then I'd have to cycle all over?
Or say he doesn't die and continues to seem active and fine? How do I know he's parasite free? And the tanks safe? At this pt. I'm just super bummed and not sure what my next move is or if I even bother to keep dosing with this all natural bullshit that did nothing or keep doing wc's.... So here I am, with a big empty 260g tank, had to bury my Oscar, and I'm not sure what my next step is.
I recently acquired 6 redhooks from snookn21 on aquabid. I payed for overnight but apparently they sat in shipping for 2 days. I added them to my tank and they joined up with my other 7 SD and everything seemed fine. My other stock is a large Oscar and a not full grown raph catfish that just hides all the time. Everything seems completely fine so I assumed all was well.
Sunday I did a decent size wc. Monday/Tuesday I noticed some shiny sorta dots on some of the redhooks. I noticed some body stuff when I first got them and their fins were sorta shredded a little but I assumed this was from stress and internal aggression during shipping. Wednesday when I got home 3 of the smaller SD were dead at the top and I noticed the rest were all covered in white dots. It all happened so abruptly. I did a water test and my nitrates were a bit high. (specially since i did a wc so recently)
I went to my LFS and bought something called Kordon ICH attack. I dosed for the entire tank (counting the sump water and 260 for tank I rounded up and did 30 TSP for roughly 300 gallons. I also raised the tank temp to around 84-85. Waited 24 hours, next day the other 10 SD were all dead and my poor Oscar was covered too. I did another wc and dosed again for the full volume after the wc. Today after another 24 hours I came home hoping Iago would look better, and he looked 100x worse. Covered in white dots, laying on the substrate. I'm pretty sure the raph cat has some on him too but frankly I so rarely see him I dunno what he normally looks like. Oddly enough since this has all been happening he's coming out all the time now.
So today I euthanized my boy Iago with clove oil....He appeared to be getting much worse very fast every 24 hours and I just didn't want the poor fella to suffer anymore. I did do ANOTHER wc as well and dosed for the entire tank as well...
That's where I'm at now. So I'm pretty bummed about this whole thing and feel like maybe I should have seen these signs earlier. Or quarantined the fish I had shipped in. He claimed they were all treated for parasites/etc in his ad. I feel like maybe I should have used salt and not this kordon crap that literally did nothing. I dunno, I just feel ****ty because I feel like maybe I could have done something more to prevent this and I'm bummed I lost my boy Iago and his SD buddies. I've kept many tanks and honestly never had anything like this happen or had to deal with any fish illness/parasites/etc.
So where I'm at now is the cat is still alive. Do I continue to do wc and dose? He doesn't appear to be covered like all the rest of the fish were and is swimming around honestly 100x more than he normally did in the past.
If he dies clearly my option from what I've read is after 4 days or so the tank will be clear because ich won't have a host right? But then what's feeding my bb? So will that die off from not having any fish waste and then I'd have to cycle all over?
Or say he doesn't die and continues to seem active and fine? How do I know he's parasite free? And the tanks safe? At this pt. I'm just super bummed and not sure what my next move is or if I even bother to keep dosing with this all natural bullshit that did nothing or keep doing wc's.... So here I am, with a big empty 260g tank, had to bury my Oscar, and I'm not sure what my next step is.
