How to treat my ATF

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man.. i hate seeing this kind of stuff happen to other fishkeepers.
same thing happened to me a while back when i brought home a wild caught wolf fish. killed the majority of my bichirs and they all started developing this weird whitish bacterial film out of nowhere yet the water was fine. I was able to save one of my bichirs by quarantining it and adding prazipro to his food and also used tea tree oil in the form of drops added to the water and increasing temperature.
 
neildie said:
man.. i hate seeing this kind of stuff happen to other fishkeepers.
same thing happened to me a while back when i brought home a wild caught wolf fish. killed the majority of my bichirs and they all started developing this weird whitish bacterial film out of nowhere yet the water was fine. I was able to save one of my bichirs by quarantining it and adding prazipro to his food and also used tea tree oil in the form of drops added to the water and increasing temperature.
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Ya that's what happened to these guys. Any idea what that white stuff is? All that's left now is a black volta endli and adonis pleco. I dosed prazipro as well.


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yeah i feel ya i bought a 9 inch lugubris pike sp. awhile back cost me a pretty penny and he had this wierd white bacterial film and i literally tried everything from salt, melafix, copper, daily 75% WCs, and more and he died after 2 weeks. I wanted to quit I wasted so much time and money on him I was devasted, so i just took a break from crenicichla for awhile and now it's all good
 
Sorry to hear it didn't make it :( if I was you I would strip the tank down and bleach it, boil substrate, new filter media and re-cycle it again. If you haven't got room for a permanent QT then run a spare filter on your main tank and just add tank water and the cycled filter and you have an instant QT, that's how I do it


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monsterkeeper87 said:
Sorry to hear it didn't make it :( if I was you I would strip the tank down and bleach it, boil substrate, new filter media and re-cycle it again. If you haven't got room for a permanent QT then run a spare filter on your main tank and just add tank water and the cycled filter and you have an instant QT, that's how I do it


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I do have a permanent QT now but since there's still a wc bichir and adonis pleco, would it be better to treat the fish and the tank they're in since I'm going to have treat the fish anyway just in case?


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Aw3s0m3 said:
I do have a permanent QT now but since there's still a wc bichir and adonis pleco, would it be better to treat the fish and the tank they're in since I'm going to have treat the fish anyway just in case?


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Yea if you still have fish in there it's best to treat the tank with the problem, not sure what med you should use tho :/ might be worth starting another thread on what to treat it with to kill off whatever it was that killed them all


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