These 2 chunks were surrendered today- I currently have 6 moonrise pink corys in quarantine, and I had a shoal of greens a little while ago 😭 I missed having greenies, esp the fat ones :,)) all together I will have 9 glo corys together 😩💕💕💕 (1 pink with some albinos in the main tank, awaiting their fellow cory friends very soon!!!)
It’s been like this for 3 days now. I did a 25% water change when it happened and I use this solution once a week. It’s a 10 gallon tank. And it smells fishy
6 tetras and 1 angelfish survive nearly 30 hours in contaminated water after house fire.
When I finally made it to the property it had been close to 30 hours after the fire. Their aquarium was filled with insulation, Sheetrock, and other debris, along with no filtration or heating.
The fire originated directly to the right of the tank, they survived it all and appear to be thriving a week later.
it’s just temporary tank to check up on them
This little guy, Ocean, is the lone survivor of an accidental mass murder 😩
We had 6 in total, my husband confused the dosages when doing a water change and basically overdosed on AlgaeFix.
Now, this is how this poor fish is looking after a little over a month.
His behavior seems healthy. He swims strong, eats regularly. But he’s gotten even more transparent. He used to be a beautiful blue.
Is this all from the stress? Can I do anything to help his color come back?
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated 🙏🏽
My 4 year old son one morning after I finally got the 10 gallon stabilized with our 3 long fin tetra decided to grab our costco size montreal steak spice, same size peppercorns, and MSG. He dumped them into the tank along with some of my supplements. I immediately removed all 3 fish and put them in a large bowl with all the RO water i had left. I cleaned off the bubbler best I could and put it in as soon as I saw them gasping at the surface. I decided that the best course of action was to grab a new tank, new everything. I picked out the 20 gallon I should have started with, grabbed plant substrate and a small amount of the glofish gravel to lightly cover it. I picked up 3 anubias, 4 crypts, and 2 Java fern. I planted and glued, got a rock and a couple pieces of drift wood. I couldnt save the smallest tetra I tried very hard with what I knew but I never thought this kind of thing would happen. I thought I had more time to keep ahead with my learning.
I put the 2 left in the new tank, I managed to find someone with dirty filters they were willing to share. I used "cycle" and stress + conditioner for the portion of tap water to the RO. I got minerals that the store reccondmend and was slowly trying to remineralize the water because they sat in pure RO for so long in the bowl. I diligently took water twice a day to test, did my water changes, the fish were coming around looking healthy somehow, I was hopeful my nursing school training had helped me watch and assess this situation effective and efficiently. I got a new lock box, locked up all the solutions and fish food. Got a nicer less flimsy lid for the tank. I was starting to relax.
Then I made a mistake, I trusted my son, I made him repeat it back and promise. I left the food out while working on the tank but I had to go to the washroom. Within those couple minutes he had dumped 3/4 of the fish food. I ran out after cleaning up as much as I could and changing a large amount of water to grab a provac so I could keep removing food without changing water. I grabbed ammonia filters, ammonia treatments, cycle boosters (bacteria cultures), aquarium salt, slime coat protector, I scrambled for anything that might help take the edge off the impending spike. I purchased 5 gallon jugs of RO water to go back and refill for more. I was testing 3 times a day, doing what it took to dilute things back down to 0 or 0.25. The ammonia after a few days stayed eliminated, half of the problem was finally under control. However the nitrite kept coming back very violet. I kept changing water and diluting scared these little lives I let harm come to twice were going to hit their limit. I have hit a bottle neck of nitrite, I have a lot of nitrate being produced too and no ammonia. The fish store man said I need to stop and risk the fish, to only do a single 5 gallon change a day. I did a 5 gallon change twice yesterday, it doesnt really seem to be doing anything for the levels, not any worse but not really any better.
My biggest mind fuck that has been happening to me though is these fish are skiddish but not sick. Like the one charged at me for swapping out the filter pump today when it went haywire. As soon as the filter stops for a water change they come out and dont care that I am adding water. When the lights are all out they leisurely swim in the middle and upper water rather than hiding in the unestablished plants on the bottom. They haven't lost any colour, they dont look sick, their fins are out and relaxed, they arent breathing fast... one of them died 9 days ago, shouldn't these fish be sick? Their gills look fine they havent really lost weight but they aren't eating.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop but it hasn't, I keep waking up scared they will have died over night somehow I was wrong and they were not well. I have never had to crash course on anything so hard in my life and I honestly dont know how I have even managed to save 2 out of 3. Is this ok? Am I missing something? I dont know how I should feel about this besides guilt that all of this has been my fault.
Thanks for reading my probably ridiculously long story.
(Ft. Moonrise Pink corydoras) love how pearlescent it is in person, i cant wait to see its GFP genes in UV light! First into the quarantine phase for these bbs :))
They’re so pretty and have a gorgeous sheen, I can’t wait until their QT is over and see them in action in a planted tank :))
His tail keeps floating upwards and would end up vertical without him constantly having to work to correct it. It’s been happening for a while but seems to maybe be getting worse. I thought perhaps swim bladder but he’s not floating upside down or struggling to come up from the bottom. Thoughts?