Sick fish. What do I do? What is it?
This is Vienna. Her birthday is next month she will be turning one. I have some photos on my account of when she was a baby. Im making this post as an update for the previous ones because everything feels like a mess because there's a couple posts.
This is mine and my boyfriend fish and usually he cares for her but the past month he's been in jail. I had an emergency and had to move her tank and sell her stand for financial reasons so now she is on the floor please do not judge I am working on getting her something new.
Because of me selling her stand i had to do a big water change basically 75% because I couldn't move that tank by myself and thankfully she needed a waterchange anyways.
Her sponge filter broke two days ago but I just fixed it today!!
She is in a 20gal tank, water temp is 76f (a bit cold but I read some fish diseases or sicknesses love cold or hot water so I don't know what to set it right now. She has no tank mates and looks stressed and we think it's because she didn't have a lamp for a long while but she just got a new LED lamp a couple days ago so hopefully the stress goes away.
Yesterday I noticed two white spots on her. One on each side. There are no other spots. I was told since it's too early to see what it is I'll have to wait a bit to see more sypthoms/ spots.
Someone else pointed out some fin rot (which wasn't there about two weeks ago which I found out by looking at photos and time stamps)
First I thought it was ich but everyone thinks it is not. Most are saying epistylis and some said it might be some sort of bacteria or fungal infection.
Im not sure what it is.
I was told get seachem kanaplex, aquarium salt,
seachem metroplex or fritz metroclease because those two are the same drug.
People messaged me saying aquarium salt won't do anything and I don't know what to do.
So now, what is it is should do? I want to order whatever treatment I need online ASAP because stores here basically do not carry anything in store. Since I have to wait a bit to see what is it that's truly wrong with her I think its best to order something asap.
So the question is? What is it that I order? What do I start with? What is the first treatment and first step? Do i put her in a hospital tank and if yes what do i put in there with her? I need someone to walk me through this like I just stepped onto this world. I don't want to shock her or kill whatever plants survived when she didn't have a lamp. And I don't want to dump a million chemicals and medicine in her tank and kill her. What is the first step please walk me through it. Thank you.