Rate My Fish Tank

Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:17 pm GMT   Reply      

Do the dieing fish look different than the healthy ones?

Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:59 am GMT   Reply      

He has a washed out scale color but he spends most of the time in my cave so. and he has a black spot on his head I thot it waas hole in the head.

Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:02 am GMT   Reply      

See, every commuity fish I have has died in a month

Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:17 pm GMT   Reply      

Neon tetra disease affects other fish as well. I think I may have a tank that just won't support delicate fish because it's probably infected with something. I made a mistake of getting minnows from a lake and they wee probably infected, though they were tough enough fish to not be affected. Maybe you have some parisites in your tank.

The only thing I can do is basically start over if I want schooling tetras.

I don't know what to say about your tank.

Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:42 am GMT   Reply      

Dang, another one just died October, 29. BLESS HIS SOUL R.I.P. Any one that can help PLEASE!!!!!

Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:47 pm GMT   Reply      

I am thinking of dosing my tank with powerful antibiotics to try and get whatever parisites out of this tank.

I will probably lose some plants, which sucks, but I WANT A SCHOOL OF TETRAS DAMMIT.

Do the dieing fish look like they've been beat up by the other fish?

I'm thinking about getting a diatiom filter for my tank as well so any little parisites can get filtered out of the water.

My lfs said that my pH was too low, at 6.8. I thought 6.8 was perfect for tetras, but the store has them in pH 7.8, so he thought it may be pH shock even though I took hours slowely getting the fish acclimatised by slowly lowering the pH.

These are all the ideas I can think of that may help you.

Good Luck. PK

Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:18 pm GMT   Reply      

Ive recently had antioboties in the tank and havent added fish besides the barbs sence

Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:19 pm GMT   Reply      

each fish that died has had ruffled fins and had a lot of mouth movement.

Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:52 am GMT   Reply      

You sure there is no ICK on the fish? Little tiny white spots on body and fins? The cysts also are in the gills and will suffocate the fish causing gasping. ??????

You may have parisites which are antibiotic resistant, or resistant to the antibiotics you used.

If I can figure out my problem, which may be the same as yours, I'll let you know. PK