Tank
What is the water volume of the tank? 29g
How long has the tank been running? over a year
Does it have a filter? Yes Aquaclear 70
Does it have a heater? Yes
What is the water temperature? 80
What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please list all fish and inverts.)
1 blue acara
3 GBRs
2 dwarf gourami
2 albino cory
5 kuhli loaches
Maintenance
How often do you change the water? weekly
How much of the water do you change? 25%
What do you use to treat your water? Prime
Do you vacuum the substrate or just the water? just water, clean substrate every other change
*Parameters - Very Important
Did you cycle your tank before adding fish? Yes
What do you use to test the water? API master kit
What are your parameters? We need to know the exact numbers, not just “fine” or “safe”.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate:20 ppm
pH: 7.6
Feeding
How often do you feed your fish? morning and evening
How much do you feed your fish? small pinch of hakari micro pellets and a few larger tropical pellets for the acara
What brand of food do you feed your fish?Hikari and API tropical
Do you feed frozen? no
Do you feed freeze-dried foods? no
Illness & Symptoms
How long have you had this fish? over a year
How long ago did you first notice these symptoms? a week ago
In a few words, can you explain the symptoms? white all over acara
Have you started any treatment for the illness? yes - treating for ich but now not sure it is ich
Was your fish physically ill or injured upon purchase? no
How has its behavior and appearance changed, if at all? just appearance, he still acts happy and active
Explain your emergency situation in detail.
(Please give a clear explanation of what is going on, include details from the beginning of the illness leading up to now) Got a new balloon belly ram and quarantined him 3 days, looked healthy and beautiful so I added him to community tank and a few days later he got white spots all over. Started ich treatment. The balloon belly ram died. All other fish looked great but continued ich treatment just in case for a week (tried higher temp and paraguard).
Everyone looked great and then last week acara started looking weird, covered in white but not so much dots, kind of just covered in white. Resumed ich treatment with no results. Now I'm not sure if this is ich or something else?
What is the water volume of the tank? 29g
How long has the tank been running? over a year
Does it have a filter? Yes Aquaclear 70
Does it have a heater? Yes
What is the water temperature? 80
What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please list all fish and inverts.)
1 blue acara
3 GBRs
2 dwarf gourami
2 albino cory
5 kuhli loaches
Maintenance
How often do you change the water? weekly
How much of the water do you change? 25%
What do you use to treat your water? Prime
Do you vacuum the substrate or just the water? just water, clean substrate every other change
*Parameters - Very Important
Did you cycle your tank before adding fish? Yes
What do you use to test the water? API master kit
What are your parameters? We need to know the exact numbers, not just “fine” or “safe”.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate:20 ppm
pH: 7.6
Feeding
How often do you feed your fish? morning and evening
How much do you feed your fish? small pinch of hakari micro pellets and a few larger tropical pellets for the acara
What brand of food do you feed your fish?Hikari and API tropical
Do you feed frozen? no
Do you feed freeze-dried foods? no
Illness & Symptoms
How long have you had this fish? over a year
How long ago did you first notice these symptoms? a week ago
In a few words, can you explain the symptoms? white all over acara
Have you started any treatment for the illness? yes - treating for ich but now not sure it is ich
Was your fish physically ill or injured upon purchase? no
How has its behavior and appearance changed, if at all? just appearance, he still acts happy and active
Explain your emergency situation in detail.
(Please give a clear explanation of what is going on, include details from the beginning of the illness leading up to now) Got a new balloon belly ram and quarantined him 3 days, looked healthy and beautiful so I added him to community tank and a few days later he got white spots all over. Started ich treatment. The balloon belly ram died. All other fish looked great but continued ich treatment just in case for a week (tried higher temp and paraguard).
Everyone looked great and then last week acara started looking weird, covered in white but not so much dots, kind of just covered in white. Resumed ich treatment with no results. Now I'm not sure if this is ich or something else?
Will this be contagious to my other fish? I'll try the med you suggested, I really want to save this fish, thanks again so much!