In August of this year, I started my first PBass tank with the close guidance of
grmanrocks
, and had a great start with three 4" tems that grew and grew and grew and looked great. Couple months in and I got a pair of 6" zulies, great looking fish too. They did great, and flash forward to last week, when I stumbled upon a handful of baby 3" Pleios, one of which I threw into a divider in the big tank with all the zulies. I neglected to set up a qt tank because the temps in my house have been dropping and I didnt have a cycled system that was adequately heated. That fish didn't look great, but it was surviving, until one of my zulies jumped into the divider and killed it. I usually do two 80% WCs on the bass tank a week, but haven't been able to do so for about a week and a half because I ran out of conditioner and figured i might as well just wait until i could buy a big bottle of Prime. Yesterday, my bass looked fine, acted fine, ate. Today, both my zulies were coated in what I assume to be fungus. Oh sh*t. I did a 90% WC with the prime I got just yesterday and crossed my fingers hoping that it'd be ok. I went out for a couple hours and came home to find one of my zulies pretty much dead, and the other not looking much better. My tems also have developed that same film but not nearly as severe. As im typing this, my other azul is struggling to stay upright, drowning in fungus and slime which appears to be being produced as quickly as i can try to strip it off. This F*cking sucks. I will post pics when I can. I should have had medication for these situations, but i keep my tank at ich and general treatment salinity constantly, and thought that would take care of stuff like this happening.
grmanrocks
, and had a great start with three 4" tems that grew and grew and grew and looked great. Couple months in and I got a pair of 6" zulies, great looking fish too. They did great, and flash forward to last week, when I stumbled upon a handful of baby 3" Pleios, one of which I threw into a divider in the big tank with all the zulies. I neglected to set up a qt tank because the temps in my house have been dropping and I didnt have a cycled system that was adequately heated. That fish didn't look great, but it was surviving, until one of my zulies jumped into the divider and killed it. I usually do two 80% WCs on the bass tank a week, but haven't been able to do so for about a week and a half because I ran out of conditioner and figured i might as well just wait until i could buy a big bottle of Prime. Yesterday, my bass looked fine, acted fine, ate. Today, both my zulies were coated in what I assume to be fungus. Oh sh*t. I did a 90% WC with the prime I got just yesterday and crossed my fingers hoping that it'd be ok. I went out for a couple hours and came home to find one of my zulies pretty much dead, and the other not looking much better. My tems also have developed that same film but not nearly as severe. As im typing this, my other azul is struggling to stay upright, drowning in fungus and slime which appears to be being produced as quickly as i can try to strip it off. This F*cking sucks. I will post pics when I can. I should have had medication for these situations, but i keep my tank at ich and general treatment salinity constantly, and thought that would take care of stuff like this happening.
