Recent content by Madchild57

Yeah I've only had methylene blue + salt work in my 4 years of keeping fish haha i think I'm going with UV sterilizer to start and if the problem persists it's clarithromycin time.

Wouldn't that also crash my cycle and don't you need to treat for months with multiple antibiotics to beat this? Looked into the sulfa one, what would the procedure be if I were to use it (it seems to be the most widely available of the two) EDIT: and would UV sterilizer work against this...

so if it's Marinum, I'm just screwed? I know mycobacteriums are very resistant to everything and reproduce slowly, so

Excellent, I'll look into that, I really think this is a bacterial issue. I took a bunch of other safeguards like running carbon in my media again on the off chance this is caused by some pollutant in the water. Any recommendations?

Even if it's a myco infection, isn't that typically opportunistic? Which suggests there's some underlying issue allowing the bacteria to take hold. I don't doubt I have it in my tank somewhere, it's in 75%-ish of aquariums, but it shouldn't be an issue right? I did deworm them a while ago with...

I get them from several stores from the Baltimore/Philly/New Jersey area, I had that thought too unfortunately it wasn't it. The substrate is standard gravel, I can post my tank after I complete this water change but I don't think it'll offer any clues.

I've been through oxygen depletion before, the symptoms are a bit different and easily fixable with the air stone I have running. Plus, it wouldn't be killing gouramis which breathe air directly from the surface. It is very frustrating. I might just go back to feeding solely flake & freeze dried...

yeah I've had issues since then but it's just a continuation from the past 1.5 year that these fish have been dying

I use city water. No tank bullies, just the occaisional apisto chasing fish away from the cave, but nothing persistent, I have a very tall piece of wood in the center of the tank so the flow gets interrupted by it but the flow works for aeration.

Filters are still working although they are a few years old. Heaters are like a month old after my old ones were losing the ability to maintain temp

I have never got any shock when I touch the water. As far as heavy metals, I thought prime dealt with those? I keep my fish food fresh, typically no older than 2 months and I get a new batch

it wouldn't be dwarf gourami disease since the virus impacts the dwarf gouramis, not thick lip/honey, at least last i checked it doesn't. The fish are young, it wouldn't be old age. And yeah copper would destroy my tank. Symptoms are typically stop eating and two times fish got dropsy (different...

Tank What is the water volume of the tank? 55 US gal How long has the tank been running? ~3 years Does it have a filter? 2 HOB filters rated for 50 gallon tanks Does it have a heater? 2 heaters, one for backup What is the water temperature? 78 What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please...

No fish added in the past few months, I medicated the tank with some metronidazole flakes a while back but the fish didn't like it because it's notorious for tasting bad. Other than that I've tried to treat the affected fish with meth blue + salt baths but that has not worked.

To get this out of the way, I have a 55 gallon tank with moderate stocking, 1 angelfish (her mate died a long time ago), 1 apisto mcmasteri, 2 honey gouramis, 1 sunset thick lip gourami, 12 x ray tetras, 12 cories, and 1 BN pleco. The nitrogenous wastes are 0 except for nitrate which varies...