So I did a full cycle (2 treatments) of API fungus, which turned my water mutant ooze green but didn't seem to fully take care of the issue. I didn't lose any of the fish until a few days ago though (the one with the eye fungus) so it may have helped. I turned my water up to 85 degrees for a few weeks with aerators on at the suggestion of my lfs owner. I recently turned it back down to 80 and removed the aerators. The fungus isn't as visible on the glass anymore but I continue to get fish with a white film over their eye. I did make some much needed adjustments to my sump setup since this tank hasn't been running very long and has fish and filter media that were transferred over from my previous tank. Most of the actual filters were being bypassed previously with the way the water was flowing but now it runs through all of the biomedia and filter sponges. The only way I seem to be able to keep this eye issue at bay is to do 40 to 50 percent water changes every few days. That seems to improve things but only lasts a few days.
Here are my current parameters. Nitrate 5.0 (not great), ammonia .25 (not good), nitrite 0, ph looks like 6 but my test kit doesn't go any lower so it could be lower. I just dumped a whole bottle of amquel plus in once I saw my test results to neutralize the ammonia, but this new tank is really giving me fits. I had my last tank setup for years without any major problems but so far with this one I had one fish get ich and die after the first week and now this ongoing eye issue which in a couple of fish spread to the rest of their body and killed them. The tank has probably been up for two months now and was started with some water from my other tank, dirty filter media and seachem stability, but I suppose I could still be having cycling issues. What do you guys think I should do? Any help would be appreciated.
