jadedthought
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I lost a chinese algae eater and 3 serpae tetra to velvet. (the serpaes at the pet store had it and still do) I have 3 remaining silver lyretail mollies and one sunfire platy.
I bought Maracide Concentrate and I started using that yesterday.
I have a towel over the tank so there's no light, I removed the carbon filter and have an airstone going. I have the water temperature up to 82 degrees.
I had my water tested yesterday and everything was good except the water hardness was really high... I'm wondering if there's anything I need to adjust with the treatment because of the water hardness. (my test tube broke and a new kit is in the mail so I can't give readings but everything was very good as of last night and only thing that has changed is adding maracide)
I'm wondering if I should do any water changes in the next 5 days or not while the Maracide is in there, perhaps taking out a gallon of water and replacing that one drop of Maracide.
Should I remove the gravel from the tank they're in? I bought new gravel for when I set the tank back up.
I am in the process of cleaning out the quarantine tank that I had the serpae in after I saw they were doing really bad. I'm wondering if I shouldn't move the fish into that tank after treatment and after I get it all back up and running, or if the change would be too much for them. Only thing I'm wondering about for that is I know I need to get the main tank cleaned out too, no? And shouldn't it be up and running without fish in it for a while?
Let's just say that the pet store "fish specialist" wasn't very much help at all and I was giving him info on how to treat the serpaes and other fish...and which medicine would be better based on internet research (they didn't have the copper treatment) and he couldn't even recommend a good treatment other than the Maracide. The tanks in the store are like 12 to a filter so that whole wall of tanks is infected..it's so sad. I'm never going there again. Anyways...I learned my lesson.
Now I need some input...help, please
Jaded
I bought Maracide Concentrate and I started using that yesterday.
I have a towel over the tank so there's no light, I removed the carbon filter and have an airstone going. I have the water temperature up to 82 degrees.
I had my water tested yesterday and everything was good except the water hardness was really high... I'm wondering if there's anything I need to adjust with the treatment because of the water hardness. (my test tube broke and a new kit is in the mail so I can't give readings but everything was very good as of last night and only thing that has changed is adding maracide)
I'm wondering if I should do any water changes in the next 5 days or not while the Maracide is in there, perhaps taking out a gallon of water and replacing that one drop of Maracide.
Should I remove the gravel from the tank they're in? I bought new gravel for when I set the tank back up.
I am in the process of cleaning out the quarantine tank that I had the serpae in after I saw they were doing really bad. I'm wondering if I shouldn't move the fish into that tank after treatment and after I get it all back up and running, or if the change would be too much for them. Only thing I'm wondering about for that is I know I need to get the main tank cleaned out too, no? And shouldn't it be up and running without fish in it for a while?
Let's just say that the pet store "fish specialist" wasn't very much help at all and I was giving him info on how to treat the serpaes and other fish...and which medicine would be better based on internet research (they didn't have the copper treatment) and he couldn't even recommend a good treatment other than the Maracide. The tanks in the store are like 12 to a filter so that whole wall of tanks is infected..it's so sad. I'm never going there again. Anyways...I learned my lesson.
Now I need some input...help, please
Jaded