This is a longish post, I'm trying to provide as much information as I can recall over the past few days in hopes of figuring out what happened.
I've been running this 10g tank for 5 months, it's been under my dad's care for two months since I was in college as well as a geological expedition. I get back and find my betta dead. No big deal, that happens, he was fully grown when I got him.
Oh, let me run the list of the tank before all this crap happened:
1 Betta
2 Otos
1 Upside down Cat
2 Cories
5 Neon tetras
This tank was lush with activity until that betta died.
I make my way to Walmart, buy testing supplies and a bigger filter (a 10-30 gal, 150g/hr) and hook that bad boy up to help get some excess waste out. Mind you this was at 2AM, I was only home for 2 hours and kind of irritated.
The next morning, I find a dead neon. Now, I think nothing of it, fish come and go. But shortly after, I notice my other neons kind of swimming at the surface at a 45 degree angle. They all end up dying over the next few days and their backs seems to have turned darker black, but not too much. An Oto dies too, probably from stress when I was moving plants around, more or less tending to a mass of java moss that accumulated, did not tell my dad to mess with it thinking he'd like some when I set his tank up (which I did today hahaha). So I threw half a 10 gallon tank worth of java moss and had to re-root plants.
My water tests show my usual chemical killers were in check, and my dad had been taking care of it as I directed.
So I go to Pet Supplies Plus today and get a new betta, he seems to be doing good, he's a still growing CT, beautiful red coloring and all that. He's quarantined of course, until I figure out what the heck is going on. I come back and I notice my other Otos eyes are white, with the white sticking out. It wasn't ich, I've seen ich in Otos. It was some other worm or parasite. He ends up dying. While at Pet Supplies, I got wide-range medications and threw that in the tank with some salt.
Let's have a count shall we?
2 Cories
1 Upsidedown Catfish
Only the hardiest survive, I suppose.
Well, earlier this evening, my Syno decided to just swim around in the light and kind of skim the top of the water. I think no biggie, my dad usually turns the light off at that time and he's hungry. But then I start to worry since all the other fish that died started acting differently. So I throw in food for the 3 catfish and turn off the light.
I checked on them right before I started typing this and my Syno seems to have settled down and is chilling in a hiding spot again.
I have noticed my two cories are gulping air more often or I just am noticing it from not being around my fish for so long... and right after one gulps air, the other does too.
Any speculations on as to what happened would be greatly appreciated.
The medication I am using is Maracyn TC, it covers Popeye, gill disease and fin rot. I went broad since I think that oto had popeye, but I also have more meds I might dose up after I run these.
I've been running this 10g tank for 5 months, it's been under my dad's care for two months since I was in college as well as a geological expedition. I get back and find my betta dead. No big deal, that happens, he was fully grown when I got him.
Oh, let me run the list of the tank before all this crap happened:
1 Betta
2 Otos
1 Upside down Cat
2 Cories
5 Neon tetras
This tank was lush with activity until that betta died.
I make my way to Walmart, buy testing supplies and a bigger filter (a 10-30 gal, 150g/hr) and hook that bad boy up to help get some excess waste out. Mind you this was at 2AM, I was only home for 2 hours and kind of irritated.
The next morning, I find a dead neon. Now, I think nothing of it, fish come and go. But shortly after, I notice my other neons kind of swimming at the surface at a 45 degree angle. They all end up dying over the next few days and their backs seems to have turned darker black, but not too much. An Oto dies too, probably from stress when I was moving plants around, more or less tending to a mass of java moss that accumulated, did not tell my dad to mess with it thinking he'd like some when I set his tank up (which I did today hahaha). So I threw half a 10 gallon tank worth of java moss and had to re-root plants.
My water tests show my usual chemical killers were in check, and my dad had been taking care of it as I directed.
So I go to Pet Supplies Plus today and get a new betta, he seems to be doing good, he's a still growing CT, beautiful red coloring and all that. He's quarantined of course, until I figure out what the heck is going on. I come back and I notice my other Otos eyes are white, with the white sticking out. It wasn't ich, I've seen ich in Otos. It was some other worm or parasite. He ends up dying. While at Pet Supplies, I got wide-range medications and threw that in the tank with some salt.
Let's have a count shall we?
2 Cories
1 Upsidedown Catfish
Only the hardiest survive, I suppose.
Well, earlier this evening, my Syno decided to just swim around in the light and kind of skim the top of the water. I think no biggie, my dad usually turns the light off at that time and he's hungry. But then I start to worry since all the other fish that died started acting differently. So I throw in food for the 3 catfish and turn off the light.
I checked on them right before I started typing this and my Syno seems to have settled down and is chilling in a hiding spot again.
I have noticed my two cories are gulping air more often or I just am noticing it from not being around my fish for so long... and right after one gulps air, the other does too.
Any speculations on as to what happened would be greatly appreciated.
The medication I am using is Maracyn TC, it covers Popeye, gill disease and fin rot. I went broad since I think that oto had popeye, but I also have more meds I might dose up after I run these.
