Are My Glo Fish Sick?

I just skimmed through the post. I am happy that some things are getting better. The pictures of the betta do show that he has ICK but it is not a severe case. I do not see anything terrible in regard to his fins. They are a bit beat up but betta fins come and go. What other problems do you see going on with him?

 

He has completely stopped eating and swimming around the tank. All he does is lay on the aquarium floor. Sometimes when I am gone from the room for a while when I come back he will be in a new spot on the floor but he is always in the same general area. He has definitely been breathing heavier the last week. Every time I walk over to the tank I honestly don't expect to find him breathing anymore but he surprises me every time. For several days his color changed and faded terribly also. It doesn't seem quite as bad now but it is definitely not like it was when he was healthy and full of life.

When I went to start adding the aquarium salt last night in my 20 gallon, I found my small pleco dead. He passed sometime yesterday. I think the shrimp may have started eating on him as there were entire patches in his body where his "skin" was missing and he was mucusey. My Betta looks horrible this morning. His coloring is worse again and he has lost more of his tail. It's getting really hard to watch him because nothing is helping. My water has been great in this tank for ever...I just don't get what is going on, why nothing is helping and all my fish are dying. I attached a picture of what my Black Neons looked like, but they were 2 or 3 times worse maybe more. This just gives you an idea of how some of the other fish were. Also, here is a picture of my Betta this morning. It just doesn't seem like Paragaurd is working in this tank.
My 10 gallon it seems to be working fine in, how is that possible?
Here is a pic of my Betta when he was healthy so you can compare...

 

With the betta tank, concentrate on the ICK problem first. If a water change is due, do that first and then treat with paraguard. Do not do another water change until it is time to add another dose. If the parasites are on his gills, he will be having a hard time breathing. He is still coming to the top for air occasionally?
I'll take a better look at his fins when the ICK has been taken care of.

 

He was.. I didn't see him come up yesterday, but I wasn't home most of the day. I am treating with Paragaurd daily, so you are saying to do the water change and treat daily. I was changing water every couple of days. Thanks so much for your help!!

 

I haven't used paraguard. I found the directions. They do say to treat daily. You can continue whatever water change schedule you are used to. I had used API ICK Cure in the past and you add the initial dose, wait 48 hours and add another dose. In an other 48 hours you do a 25% water change and put the carbon back in your filter. You are going 4 days without a water change. I thought the malachite green in paraguard was dosed in a similar way. My mistake. You are dosing correctly per their instructions.

 

I did a water change on the Betta tank last night and my man got up and swam up to the top several times for some air, hung around for a little each time and then eventually would go back to the bottom. The Ich looked worse last night. I was a little encouraged because he was moving around the most I have seen him move in days. Sadly, when I got up this morning he had passed away. This is such a crappy disease. I am now down to 4 neon tetra, a shrimp and a little Dwarf Otto. I don't believe that I see any Ich on these guys, I believe the Betta was the last fish with the cysts left on a body. So where do I go from here? How much longer do I continue treating this tank with Paragaurd? Should I switch to another med? Here is pic of my poor man last night, showing where the Ich had gotten into it's gills. It was never visible there before.

 

Hey Everyone!
Thanks again for all the advice and help!
Quick update. My 2 tanks with Ich seem to be under control. All white spots gone and everyone doing well. I am thinking about moving my neon tetras and my Rummy Nose Tetras to my 20 gallon from my 10 but wondering if it is to soon with the Ich saga.
I am still treating both tanks 10 and 20 gallons with Paragaurd daily. All tanks now have their own equipment too. I have never moved fish from tank to tank, what is the best way to do it when it's ok to do so.

Glo Fish... finished kanaplex, let them be for a couple of days and when I put the filter back in the tank they seemed to start going down hill again. Added some Parazipro Friday, didn't seem to help. They are all thinning out, my Blue guy is continuing to lose color, as is green.
I am at such a loss.. changed their food as I was feeding them that GloFish food . They all still eat like pigs. I have only been feeding them once a day, should I be feeding all my fish twice a day?



I am wondering if I don't have sufficient filters on my 20 and 29g. tanks? The tanks don't smell good and haven't for a while. Neither one has been overstocked either. I have never had any issues with my 10 gallon smelling ever. I am changing at least 20% of the water every couple of days right now through all the sickness and before I was very consistent in doing 25-30% weekly water changes.

20g has an Aqueon Quiet Flow 10 (100 GPH) that came with aquarium

29g has an Aqueon Quiet Flow 20 (200 GPH)
that came with the aquarium.

Thoughts??

As always, thanks so much! I feel a little better since I am through the worst of the Ich (hopefully) but still so sad hat it came with so many casualties.

 

As long as your water source is the same on both tanks, moving fish is pretty straight forward. Just check PH on both tanks to be safe. If the ph is more or less the same. Just net them out and put them in the new tank. If the tanks are really far apart use a transport tank. No need to acclimate slow, the water is the same.

 

ok, thanks for your response. They are far apart, upstairs and downstairs.....
Any idea how long I used continue to treat the tank for Ich with Paragaurd? The bottle just says until signs are gone, however, I have read that you should treat 2-4 weeks or it can come back. which one is right?

 

ok, thanks for your response. They are far apart, upstairs and downstairs.....
Any idea how long I used continue to treat the tank for Ich with Paragaurd? The bottle just says until signs are gone, however, I have read that you should treat 2-4 weeks or it can come back. which one is right?

I usually treat for a week, then put carbon in the filter and do a large water change with a heavy gravel vacuum. Then just watch to see if it come back.