Now it's my turn...my female marble is hurting !!
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Dude that sucks.... I am betting it is due to the pup too. Maybe the pup died inside her and it all went down from there.
flamenco-t;5150054; said:This wasn't the tank that malfunction. My 575 flooded because my son moved the float switch, 11 hours of dripping 12 gal per hour and it goes to the carpetI've spent the last 4-5 days pulling water, running 3 dehumidifier and 4 blower fan that we used on the dyno.
Her underside is not red, normal white/greyish color.
I am tempted to treat the tank with erthromycin for fungal, but I don't see any fungal or bacterial on the open sore. I used 200X lens on the microscope.
Stan
PS: Wife went in for a simple non invasive day surgery to remove her gall bladder. 2 hours in the operation, she went through complication and they had to cut her stomach open about 12". She's doing fine and on extra strength vicodin for the pain for the next 2-3 weeks..
Thank you
You can't even see bacteria cells at 200x
earthstudent;5151054; said:
I am not a scientist, I wasn't trying to cure cancer. I was simply looking for "things" that I've seen before in order to determine my course of action.
How do you know what I don't have
?Thanks for the kind words folks...I appreciate it.
Stan
I had that same shredded look on my male not to long ago, he also had a white spot on his clasper. I didn't a water change and added salt, also bumped the temp up to 80, 2 days later all the "shreds" had fallen off and he started healing. No idea what caused it...
lnelms2;5151854; said:
I am glad you were able to save him. I think if the pup hadn't died inside her, it wouldn't fouled the water as bad as it did...
Stan
Hard to say but I would guess at water gone off, if the 3 previous rays were out of the tank for a couple of days then I expect the bacteria backed off a lot but it could be any number of other things.
As soon as I change anything on a tank out come the test kits for the first few weeks, ph, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate. Test daily for a week, then every few days.
9 times out of 10 it is the stuff we automatically rule out that is the cause.
Was dechlorinator used on all new water, I wonder what a heavy dose of copper might make a ray look like, chloramine could do the same perhaps? I always use a quality dechlor that binds heavy metals and has a chloramine reducer in it, my drip has a chloramine pod too. I have seen some people advocate a drip connected to their hot water system, this to me is just a copper factory. My supply water has zero copper pipe right out from the road and in to my hma....it is all plastic.
As soon as I change anything on a tank out come the test kits for the first few weeks, ph, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate. Test daily for a week, then every few days.
9 times out of 10 it is the stuff we automatically rule out that is the cause.
Was dechlorinator used on all new water, I wonder what a heavy dose of copper might make a ray look like, chloramine could do the same perhaps? I always use a quality dechlor that binds heavy metals and has a chloramine reducer in it, my drip has a chloramine pod too. I have seen some people advocate a drip connected to their hot water system, this to me is just a copper factory. My supply water has zero copper pipe right out from the road and in to my hma....it is all plastic.
Just Toby;5154666; said:
Everytime I am not using the QT tank, all media (substrat pro and sponges) goes to the sump of the 575. When I need to set it up, I grab the media from the sump to setup the tank.
I dechlor all water...as usual, I double dose after heavy rain, since the city usually dump extra chlorine to protect the water from run offs
The reason why I never bothered with test kit, is because I've never needed it...90% of my medias are over 4-5 years old. They are very seasoned and can handle any ammonia from the nitrogen cycle.
I do agree with you about 9 out of 10 cause.
In this case, the QT tank is not big enough to turn the water over from the birth water fouling the tank water. The pup was dead on the inside...my whole fish room stunk pretty bad
stan
