Hi
Here are my specs;
Ammonia = 0
Nitrite = 0
Nitrate = 10
PH = 7.4
PH Tap = 7
55 gallon tank running for 1 year
Penguin 330 filter
Water change weekly 50%
Use prime water conditioner
Water currently at .3% salt and using Pimafix for the fungus
1 Common Gold Fish approx 4" long
1 Fancy Veil Tail approx 4" long
1 Oranda 3" long
1 black moor 1"
1 beta 1"
1 dojo loach 4"
1 bubble eye 1"
1 bristle nose pleco 3" (NEW TO THE TANK)
1 Oranda 1"

So I've been looking for bristle nose plecos for quite some time now and recently my girlfriend found one (very small, about 1") at out LFS and bought it for me and brought it home and plopped it into my 55 gallon tank!!! (I know, bad idea). Shortly after this most of my tank became sick with ICK which I've treated and overcome (AFAIK). Upon detection of the ICK I removed that pleco and put him into quarantine and began to treat the rest of my tank with RidICH untill there was no signs of ich + 3 more days...although my fish had gotten fin rot and red streaks in their tails and also I noticed that they had lost a good number of scales (mainly the 2 4" gold fish). The pleco in the quar. tank died while I was out of town so my girlfriend (bless her heart) found a much nicer and larger bristle nose at LFS and again bought and put into my 55 gallon tank. (this all takes place within two week time span). I just came home and found that the two large goldfish (the 4" ones who had gotten fin rot) now have black spots (looks like fungus as it was smaller patches yesterday and today they are noticably bigger) around the areas where they lost scales. Also, these two large goldfish have what looks like wounds on the tops of their heads (near the top fin)...looks like they ran into something and scraped themselves...but in that scraped area...is more black fungus. They all seem to be acting normally and the fin rot has stopped progressing and the red viens are mostly gone, but now I've got this black stuff and I'm not sure what it is. ANy ideas?

Thanks for the help.

I am no expert but my bubble eye had alot of problems from ick to nitrate posioning. Then my dork of a fish got his bubble caught not once but 2x's well shorlty after he got black stuff which aapeared to be a fungus on the bubble were he got it danaged. I wrote on here and I spoke with someone who said it is just him healing and make sure there is salt in there and he will heal. Well, he is now in a new home with plenty of saly (1 tsp per gal) and he is doing great. So ur fishies might just be healing!!!

Hey
Thanks for your help...it means alot to me. BTW...cute pic...

Thanx very much!! I really hope I am right and thats all that is wrong becasue I kno I was soo relieved when I figured out thats all the bubbles had!!!!

Hi
I'm not sure how to post pics...but here are two pics of the black spots in question.

http://www.freewebs.com/collapsingthewavef...on/DSCF0017.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/collapsingthewavef...on/DSCF0019.JPG

o weird!! lol but it deos look like there healing I'd add like that slim coat stuff I added that when my gorami had missing fins and he satred healing soon after!!

Well,
This morning I found my veil tail dead on the bottom of the tank. He was not eating for the past three days and was kinda sluggish around the tank...not sure at this point what ultimatly caused the death...he still has the black fungus on his head and whatnot...the other CGF seems to be ok, and his black fungus seems to be going away.

Sorry you lost em.


This is most definitely burns. Not ammonia, but a chemical burn all the same. Most likely unduced by the malachite green/formalin medication you used. This also probably played a role in the death of him too. In the future, DO NOT medicate ich with anything other than aquarium salt at 0.3% solution for a week or two. This works on Dojos AND goldfish but the rest of the fish need to be removed. Just an FYI......

If everyone else is still doing fine, I suspect they will continue to do so.


Good luck with them.


Paul

That's too bad about your fish,hopefully the rest will be okay. I just wanna add that I noticed that with the fish you have in your tank,that maybe you should start looking into adding a second filter on it to help cover the Bio-Load from all those fish.Goldfish are recommended to have a filtration of ten X's the size of your tank,so a 55 gal.would need at least a filter of 550 gph.I personally would go a little higher.I know your fish are somewhat small right now,but they definately will give your filter a beating as they produce larger & larger amounts of waste. You could just replace the one you have with a bigger one,but I personally like having two running at the same time for a number of reasons.

Good call, Devs!

I forgot to ad that into my post......


Thanks!

ohh wow I had no idea about that!!! I have 2 goldies in a 10gal. I kno I kno 1 goldie per 10gal. But they are small and until they get lil bigger then I will get them intoa bigger home. So u recommend 2 filter for goldies...I will deff do that!! That could explain y my water is soo cloudie!!! THE FILER CAN'T KEEP UP!! thank u soo much!!