My fish are very sick

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Perentie

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G'day,

I treated my fish for gill flukes a few days ago, they were twiching, bashing themselvs ageinst the rocks and sand, not eating much and were just not looking well.

I checked them thismorning and their condition is worse, they now apear to have white spot too, they are even palier, have white spots all over them, not eating and a few are only using one fin, the other is pinned to their side.

Can they survive having both gill flukes and white spot? Im going to get more medication from the LFS roday but its not looking good.

Water params are stable, tank is just over 52g. I have already lost both my pictus cats to this and dont want to lose any more.

Help.......:(
 
something might be wrong with your water to create those disease my water quality used to be crappy and then when i did alot of water changes it improved my fish`s healthy. What kind of fish do you have?
 
it could be ammonia poisoning, use a ammonia detoxifier like ammolock. see if that helps. what seems to be gil flukes could just be a case of ich. make sure you add an air pump or take some water out so your hob filter falls into the tank aerating the water
 
The white spots are ick... If you have a heater in there bump up the temperature to 86 degrees gradually(2-3 degrees a day until 86) and add some salt.
 
0.25ppm is a miniscule amount of Ammonia, not enought to be toxic and i do have Ammolock media in my filter aswell as an air pump so circulation and aeration is definately not a problem. Thanks for the comment though, always good to cover all possible causes.

I believe it was a combination of stress and the the water params though the params are now stable and the nitrate is coming down.
 
If you have ammolock in your media, take it out before adding salt! If you don't it will dump all the ammonia its absorbed back into your tank. I would never use media that absorbs ammonia, if you have a healthy bio filter theres no need to. If you have flukes, prazi pro is the best stuff for it. It doesn't kill your bio filter like a lot of meds do and its gentle. So get some of that and add the salt for ich. These two meds can be used at the same time with no ill effects. Ammolock is like prime, it detoxifies the ammonia making it safer for your fish. Add any new fish lately? How many fish do you have?
 
Eupterus;5142241; said:
An established aquarium should not have any ammonia so that means something is wrong.
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X2. Any added stress to sick fish will just compound the other problems. Your tank should not have any ammonia if it's established. It may seem minuscule but is definitely toxic....
 
Whenever you add new fish your tank WILL have amonnia in it, might be miniscule but youll still get at least .25 on your test kit.
 
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