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robchris

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Hello,
It has been a while since I have visited this forum. I am glad to see there is still activity on here. I have a question that I am hoping you guys can help me out with. I have gone from a 75g to a 125g. Everything has been good a a few months now. But there is three discuss out of the eight that I have that are always sick. I do not know if it is because they are fighting and stressing each other out? But the main problem is that they are ok for a little while then I notice that their fins start getting bad and then they get white patches on the body. I take them out and medicate them in a different tank. When they look good I put them back. Then a few months later it is back. I test the water and everything looks good. I change 15-20% every week. I feed them every other day. I think it is because of the live worms I am feeding them. I drop some medication in the worms for a few minutes before I feed them. I have tried before to starve them to make them each pellets or frozen but they will not eat anything but live worms. The three fish are now back in the smaller medicated tank but I want to fix the problem before they go back. If someone can please give me some opinions that would be very helpful. THX!!
 
You need to post your actual water params, not just say they are good. I'd be changing a lot more water than 10-20% weekly. If you have a planted tank with them 50% weekly minimum, if no plants 50%-100% (100% done in two parts) daily. Try Seachem Entice to get them to eat pellets, and frozen foods. Garlic can help quite a bit with cleaning their systems as well.
 
When I go home tonight I will retest the water and write it down and submit it tomorrow. 100% water change seems a little too much doesn't it? I really only have time to change the tank once a week.
 
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