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Medicating planted tank
Some of the fish in my heavily planted tank are showing signs of fin
rot, and a couple of them are 'glancing' off objects in the tank. Aside from the fin rot, I don't see any external signs of disease (no white spots, film, or obvious parasites). The fish in the tank a Peacock Gudgeon (9) Fundulopanchax Scheeli (3) Betta Splendens (1) Otocinclus Catfish (6) Leopard Danio (4) In addition to the fish and plants, I have a half dozen or so ghost shrimp, and countless snails, mostly MTS. I've been using Melafix, but I have the impression it's more for treating the symptoms rather than the cause. What medication could I try that won't hurt the plants or the inverts? Thanks in advance. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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Hi,
Melafix sucks, other than making the water smell good. I dunno if it applies to planted tank, but in normal circumstances, I would isolate the affected fish, salt bath them for a little while. Do a daily water change, add in a pinch of salt and methylene blue. You will be able to stop the fin rot in less than 7 days. Quarantine them for a longer while before letting them into the community tank again. In these period, do look out for other signs and symptoms for white spots, fin rot, externel parasite and velvet. Treat accordingly... hope im right Vincent "Eric Schreiber" wrote in message ... Some of the fish in my heavily planted tank are showing signs of fin rot, and a couple of them are 'glancing' off objects in the tank. Aside from the fin rot, I don't see any external signs of disease (no white spots, film, or obvious parasites). The fish in the tank a Peacock Gudgeon (9) Fundulopanchax Scheeli (3) Betta Splendens (1) Otocinclus Catfish (6) Leopard Danio (4) In addition to the fish and plants, I have a half dozen or so ghost shrimp, and countless snails, mostly MTS. I've been using Melafix, but I have the impression it's more for treating the symptoms rather than the cause. What medication could I try that won't hurt the plants or the inverts? Thanks in advance. -- www.ericschreiber.com |
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Eric Schreiber wrote:
What medication could I try that won't hurt the plants or the inverts? I successfully treated fin rot last year using both Maracyn and Maracyn Two concurrently. The only casualty was the singapore shrimp, the amano shrimp and the snails were not affected. I didn't have ghost shrimp back then. -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in message ... ...amano shrimp and the snails were not affected. I didn't have ghost shrimp back then. Aren't Amano shrimp and ghost shrimp the same thing? |
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Duncan A. McRae wrote:
Aren't Amano shrimp and ghost shrimp the same thing? Nope. Very different critters. -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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Eric Schreiber wrote:
Maybe I could move my shrimp out to a temporary tank while I treat the fish Good luck catching them! But like I said, I only lost the one filtering shrimp. My theory is that its normal food supply including microscopic critters that died because of the treatment (paremecia, etc.). -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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